Branwen Williams's guest appearances

Branwen Williams

The Academic Minute

Skylight Books Podcast Series

Cawl Mympwy

Merched yn Gwneud Miwsig: Y Podcast

William Deverell

Peter Filkins

William Powers

Doree Shafrir

Richard Allen

Graham Reynolds

Mallory O'Meara

Naomi Fry

Crissy Milazzo

Micah Perks

Paul Lisicky

Meredith Maran

Frederic Reamer

Glenn Gould

Nathaniel Rich

OwlTail

Yn bennod olaf yr ail gyfres o'r podcast, bu Elan Evans yn sgwrsio gyda'r artist a sylfaenydd label I KA CHING - Branwen Williams. O dyfu fyny yn Llanuwchllyn a phrofi'r creadigrwydd o'i chwmpas hi, i ddilyn ei thad a mam o gwmpas theatrau Cymru a dysgu oddi wrth fenywod eraill Cwmni Maldwyn. Dechreuodd ei band gyntaf yn yr ysgol ac erbyn nawr, mae hi'n rhan o 3 band sefydledig - Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog, Siddi a Blodau Papur, ac yn rhedeg y label annibynnol 'I KA CHING' sydd wrthi'n anelu at wella cynrychiolaeth menywod sy'n rhyddhau cerddoriaeth yng Nghymru.

Yn bennod olaf yr ail gyfres o'r podcast, bu Elan Evans yn sgwrsio gyda'r artist a sylfaenydd label I KA CHING - Branwen Williams. O dyfu fyny yn Llanuwchllyn a phrofi'r creadigrwydd o'i chwmpas hi, i ddilyn ei thad a mam o gwmpas theatrau Cymru a dysgu oddi wrth fenywod eraill Cwmni Maldwyn. Dechreuodd ei band gyntaf yn yr ysgol ac erbyn nawr, mae hi'n rhan o 3 band sefydledig - Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog, Siddi a Blodau Papur, ac yn rhedeg y label annibynnol 'I KA CHING' sydd wrthi'n anelu at wella cynrychiolaeth menywod sy'n rhyddhau cerddoriaeth yng Nghymru.

Jess Phoenix

As a volcanologist, natural hazards expert, and founder of Blueprint Earth, Jess Phoenix has dedicated her life to scientific exploration. Her career path—hard earned in the male-dominated world of science—has led her into still-flowing Hawaiian lava fields, congressional races, glittering cocktail parties at Manhattan’s elite Explorers Club, and numerous pairs of Caterpillar work boots. It has also inspired her to devote her life to making science more inclusive and accessible.Ms. Adventure skillfully blends personal memoir, daring adventure, and scientific exploration, following Phoenix’s journey from reality television sites deep in Ecuadorian jungles to Andean glaciers, university classrooms to Death Valley in summer. She has even chased down members of a Mexican cartel to retrieve a stolen favorite rock hammer. Readers will delight in her unbelievable adventures, all embarked on for the love of science.  Phoenix is in conversation with Branwen Williams. Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, &amp; Michael Kowaleski Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

As a volcanologist, natural hazards expert, and founder of Blueprint Earth, Jess Phoenix has dedicated her life to scientific exploration. Her career path—hard earned in the male-dominated world of science—has led her into still-flowing Hawaiian lava fields, congressional races, glittering cocktail parties at Manhattan’s elite Explorers Club, and numerous pairs of Caterpillar work boots. It has also inspired her to devote her life to making science more inclusive and accessible. <a href="https://www.skylightbooks.com/book/9781643260037" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ms. Adventure</a> skillfully blends personal memoir, daring adventure, and scientific exploration, following Phoenix’s journey from reality television sites deep in Ecuadorian jungles to Andean glaciers, university classrooms to Death Valley in summer. She has even chased down members of a Mexican cartel to retrieve a stolen favorite rock hammer. Readers will delight in her unbelievable adventures, all embarked on for the love of science. Phoenix is in conversation with Branwen Williams. Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, &amp; Michael Kowaleski Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit <a href="https://www.skylightbooks.com/event" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.skylightbooks.com/event</a> for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

SKYLIT: Jess Phoenix, "MS. ADVENTURE" w/ Branwen Williams

On Scripps College Week:  How much of recent global warming would have happened without humans? Branwen Williams, associate professor of environmental science, looks into the data to find the answer. Dr. Branwen Williams’s research develops the techniques that we use to generate records of our past ocean and climate variability, and uses these records to understand mechanisms driving environmental changes.  She got her B.Sc. in Marine and Freshwater Biology at the University of Guelph.  She then got her M.Sc. in Biology at GEOTOP with the Université du Québec à Montréal.  She then went to complete at her Ph.D. in Geological Science in the School of Earth Sciences at the Ohio State University.  From there, she did a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Chemical &amp; Physical Sciences at the University of Toronto Mississauga.  She is now an Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences in the W.M. Keck Science Department , a science department that is shared among three colleges of the Claremont Colleges: Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College, and Scripps College. Global Warming https://academicminute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/06-02-20-Scripps-Global-Warming.mp3  The carbon released with fossil fuel use changes our climate, although our climate would also change naturally, even if, people weren’t around.  My research focuses on understanding how much of the recent, very rapid warming that we have been experiencing is caused by people and how much would have occurred in our absence.  This helps us better understand how the climate will continue to change in the future. We focus on finding environmental data from locations or periods in time when we didn’t have instruments measuring for us, like ocean temperatures before we had thermometers.  To find the data, we measure the growth and chemistry of marine plants. These plants, like some trees, form a growth ring in their skeleton each year.  By counting these rings we can identify time in the skeleton, how long the plant has been growing for, and when each year of growth occurred. These plants also encode characteristics of the surrounding environment into the chemistry of each growth ring when it is formed, for example, whether that year was warmer or cooler.  Some of these plants in the ocean can live for hundreds of years, and throughout their entire life they are documenting and preserving in their skeleton these changes in seawater temperature.  We collect the specimens, measure the chemistry of each growth ring, and then create records of past changes in seawater temperature. Our research shows the recent warming is really unusual, particularly how fast and how widespread it is. When we combine our data with computer simulations of all the things that cause temperature to change, we find that at least half of the warming over the past century is caused by people.  This means that as we continue to use fossil fuels, global warming will rapidly continue. However, if we reduce our use of fossil fuels, we can slow the rate of warming by a lot.  

On <a href="https://www.scrippscollege.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scripps College</a> Week:  How much of recent global warming would have happened without humans? <a href="https://www.scrippscollege.edu/academics/faculty/profile/branwen-williams" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Branwen Williams</a>, associate professor of environmental science, looks into the data to find the answer. Dr. Branwen Williams’s research develops the techniques that we use to generate records of our past ocean and climate variability, and uses these records to understand mechanisms driving environmental changes.  She got her <a href="http://B.Sc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">B.Sc</a>. in Marine and Freshwater Biology at the <a href="https://www.uoguelph.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">University of Guelph</a>.  She then got her <a href="http://M.Sc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">M.Sc</a>. in Biology at <a href="http://www.geotop.ca/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GEOTOP</a> with the Université du Québec à Montréal.  She then went to complete at her Ph.D. in Geological Science in the <a href="https://earthsciences.osu.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">School of Earth Sciences</a> at the Ohio State University.  From there, she did a postdoctoral research fellowship in the <a href="https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/cps/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Department of Chemical &amp; Physical Sciences</a> at the University of Toronto Mississauga.  She is now an Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences in the <a href="http://www.kecksci.claremont.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">W.M. Keck Science Department</a> , a science department that is shared among three colleges of the Claremont Colleges: Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College, and Scripps College. <h2>Global Warming</h2> <a href="https://academicminute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/06-02-20-Scripps-Global-Warming.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://academicminute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/06-02-20-Scripps-Global-Warming.mp3</a> <h2></h2> The carbon released with fossil fuel use changes our climate, although our climate would also change naturally, even if, people weren’t around.  My research focuses on understanding how much of the recent, very rapid warming that we have been experiencing is caused by people and how much would have occurred in our absence.  This helps us better understand how the climate will continue to change in the future. We focus on finding environmental data from locations or periods in time when we didn’t have instruments measuring for us, like ocean temperatures before we had thermometers.  To find the data, we measure the growth and chemistry of marine plants. These plants, like some trees, form a growth ring in their skeleton each year.  By counting these rings we can identify time in the skeleton, how long the plant has been growing for, and when each year of growth occurred. These plants also encode characteristics of the surrounding environment into the chemistry of each growth ring when it is formed, for example, whether that year was warmer or cooler.  Some of these plants in the ocean can live for hundreds of years, and throughout their entire life they are documenting and preserving in their skeleton these changes in seawater temperature.  We collect the specimens, measure the chemistry of each growth ring, and then create records of past changes in seawater temperature. Our research shows the recent warming is really unusual, particularly how fast and how widespread it is. When we combine our data with computer simulations of all the things that cause temperature to change, we find that at least half of the warming over the past century is caused by people.  This means that as we continue to use fossil fuels, global warming will rapidly continue. However, if we reduce our use of fossil fuels, we can slow the rate of warming by a lot.

Branwen Williams, Scripps College – Global Warming

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