Season 3/Episode 3: Ed Clark: Harmonizing hydrology to better predict water

Ed Clark, Director of NOAA’s National Water Center and the Deputy Director of the National Weather Service’s Office of Water Prediction, talks with John about how data science plays a role in water forecasting, how new tools and technologies can provide better services to all communities, and how the National Water Center might help prepare the nation for the implications of climate change on human health.

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Season 3/Episode 2: Jessica Dandridge: Water Justice and a Thriving New Orleans

Can New Orleans thrive with water? Jessica Dandridge, Executive Director of The Water Collaborative in New Orleans, talks with John about what water justice means, how to engage communities in creating solutions, and why we should think about thriving versus resilience.

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Season 3/Episode 1: Lisa Schulte Moore on Reducing Nutrient Runoff from Agriculture

Lisa Schulte Moore, a landscape ecologist, Iowa state university professor, and a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, talks with John about how Iowa agriculture practices impact the Mississippi River and how her work integrating prairie vegetation into crop fields led to real results in reducing soil erosion and nitrogen and phosphorus runoff.

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Season 2/Episode 8: Thomas LaVeist on Climate Change and Health

Thomas LaVeist, public health expert and Dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, talks with John about how climate change will impact health, especially for more vulnerable communities, and the role water will play.

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Episode 3: John Fleck — Busting Water Myths & Apocalyptic Water Narratives

The director of the University of New Mexico’s Water Resources Program and author of the book “Water is for Fighting Over: and Other Myths about Water in the West” on why our narratives about water are so gloomy & what it would mean for the environment to have a seat at the table in the Colorado River Basin.

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