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Talking Climate

The Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy

Conversations about transformative research happening in the fields of climate science and policy at University of Utah.

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30: How Cheaper, Safer, and Cleaner Bricks Could...

Talking Climate ·

2025/10/02

Episode Intro: Ross Chambless: In September 2025, the Wilkes Center awarded its annual Wilkes Climate Launch Prize to the organization Build up Nepal. Build up Nepal has developed a new approach to building homes for very low-income Nepalese using bricks that are not made by burning coal, but instead are compressed, and made with locally available materials, and with minimal cement. The technology is becoming a much more affordable, safer – and cleaner – design approach for tens of thousands ...

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29: How Are Plant Ecosystems Adapting to the Shifting...

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2025/02/25

When it comes to climate change, one big question is how are ecosystems adapting to shifting weather patterns, heavier precipitation events, and hotter temperatures for longer periods of time? Are some plants better equipped to withstand these changes than others? And if yes, then why and how? Jacob Levine is a Wilkes Center Postdoctoral scholar here at the University of Utah. He is interested in how climate change is impacting plant ecosystems. Specifically, whe...

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28: Conversation with the Water Resources Hackathon...

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2025/02/21

The Wilkes Center recently hosted its 3rd annual climate solutions hackathon at the end of January. This year the focus was water resources. The “hackathon” as we’ve come to call it – borrowing the term from the computer coding world – is an intense problem-solving competition where we challenge U of U undergraduate and graduate students from any discipline to team-up and develop proposals in a slide deck within 24 hours. We asked students to propose an innovative, data-driven solution ...

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27: Could Low-dimensional Perovskites Advance Cleaner...

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2025/02/18

Perovskites are crystal structures that can be manufactured in labs for making solar panels. They are relatively cost-effective, and efficient, and could provide a reliable thin-film alternative to the more common silicon-based solar panels. However, perovskite solar cells face a few challenges that must be addressed before they can become a competitive commercial PV technology. In some forms they can be unstable, and lead can be a toxic byproduct when processing them. And yet, p...

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26: Sizing Up the Melting Glaciers of the Himalayas

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2024/12/10

There are an estimated 54,000 glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayas. These glaciers cover 60,000 square kilometers and serve as a major source of the water in the region’s rivers, including as much as 40 percent in the Indus River system - the backbone of agriculture and food production in Pakistan, for example. But in recent decades glaciologists – those who study glaciers – are concerned with how fast Himalayan glaciers are melting, and what that could mean for the more than a billion people...

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25: Climate Sherlocking: Turning Up Clues from Past...

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2024/11/25

It’s true the Earth has experienced periods of global warming in its past. The largest such warming event in the past 90 million years - since the time dinosaurs roamed Earth - was the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, about 56 million years ago. Average global temperatures increased by 4–5°C over a period of 3,000–10,000 years. Human beings were definitely not walking the Earth back then, but today scientists are able to piece together evidence of how and why this ancient g...

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24: Climate Anxiety Prevalence at the U

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2024/11/11

"Eco-anxiety" or "Climate grief" are increasingly part of our lexicon when it comes to describing the heavy feelings of concern people are feeling about the state of our natural environment and global climate change. This past year, Jennifer Follstad Shah, associate professor in the School of the Environment, Society and Sustainability, along with her colleague Andrea Brunelle, and other co-PIs on the project including Adrienne Cachelin, Monika Lohani, Sara Yeo, and Lynne Zummo conducted a st...

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23: Monitoring Forests as they Change

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2024/10/28

Dr. Jon Wang, an Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences here at the U, manages the Dynamic Carbon and Ecosystems Lab, or DYCE Lab. He has access to high-resolution airborne laser scanning data to map forests across the world to measure to set benchmarks for that data and monitor for changes. Wang is interested in how climate change and human activity are rapidly transforming terrestrial ecosystems such as with wildfire, timber harvest, urbanization, and drought.&...

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22: Interview with Applied Carbon – the 2024 Wilkes...

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2024/09/23

In September this year, the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy awarded Applied Carbon, the climate tech company based in Houston, Texas, the $500,000 Wilkes Climate Launch Prize.Applied Carbon, formerly Climate Robotics, is a technology company designing automated biochar production machines that convert in-field agricultural crop waste into biochar.Jason Aramburu, who is a Co-founder and CEO of the company, has researched biochar since he was an undergraduate student at Princeton, ...

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21: Coexisting with Wildlife in a Changing Climate

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2024/06/25

Austin Green is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biology with the College of Science’s Science Research Initiative, or SRI program. His specialty is using camera traps to monitor and capture image data of wildlife in wilderness areas. His research involves gathering this data to study wild animal behavior, their movement patterns, and how human behavior is impacting wildlife. Some of his research has suggested that climate change is making life harder for wildlife to adapt...

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20: Mapping the Infestation of Balsam Woolly Adelgid...

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2024/06/07

If you’ve taken a hike or a drive through northern Utah’s forests recently, you may have noticed that some areas of the forests are changing and looking a little sick. Northern Utah’s forests are increasingly experiencing an infestation of a tiny non-native insect called balsam woolly adelgid (or BWA), that’s slowly attacking subalpine fir which are among the most common conifers in the Wasatch Mountains. Dr. Mickey Campbell was the lead author of a recently published study that maps th...

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19: The Significance of Ancient Roman Concrete for a...

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2024/04/24

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18: How Great Salt Lake Bird Migrations Are Changing

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2024/04/12

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17: How NHMU's Climate of Hope Exhibit is Improving...

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2024/03/22

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16: Urban Plants + Black Carbon = ?

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2024/03/18

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15: Talking with the Wildfire Hackathon Winners

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2024/02/26

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14: Should A "Contribution" Approach Replace the...

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2024/02/12

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13: Can We Bury Modern CO₂ in Utah’s Ancient Sand?

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2024/01/30

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12: Making Sense of How VOCs Impact Air Pollution and...

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2024/01/16

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11: The Pitfalls of Adapting Cities for Climate Change

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2023/12/15

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