The Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy
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Conversations about transformative research happening in the fields of climate science and policy at University of Utah.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Talking Climate traces how climate evidence becomes technology, policy, public communication, and practical choices.
Ross Chambliss builds each Talking Climate conversation around a concrete question, then gives researchers and practitioners room to explain the mechanisms, evidence, and tradeoffs behind it.
A carbon tax meets the grocery bill, and you get the question a slogan leaves out.
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A water hackathon becomes a practical discussion of municipal incentives, compliance, and scale.
Talking Climate follows the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy's third annual Climate Solutions Hackathon into a water-resources debate that stays practical from start to finish.
Methane, iron, and a bacterial molecule that helps explain how these microbes keep going.
The piece frames methane as a major climate force: it is the main component of natural gas, it escapes from fossil fuel production, agriculture, and waste decomposition, and it is about 80 times more heat-trapping than carbon dioxide over 20 years.
Wastewater, fertilizer, and climate math, framed through one startup's pilot-stage wager.
Talking Climate keeps its focus on Margaret Lumley of Roca Water as she makes a tidy case that wastewater can address water pollution and the carbon cost of fertilizer together.
A milk protein story that moves from health drinks to methane, price, and scale.
Talking Climate follows a milk protein into a wider climate-and-nutrition frame, using lactoferrin to connect precision fermentation with land use, water, and methane.
Perovskites, explained through the processing choices that could shape cleaner energy hardware.
Talking Climate spends this hour on perovskites, and Ross Chambliss gives the topic a clear frame: these lab-made crystal structures matter for solar panels, even as the science gets more complicated fast.
A clear look at how heat, dryness, and development make city life harder for wildlife.
This piece follows Austin Green through a practical climate problem: what happens when animals try to live alongside urban growth as temperatures climb and the land dries out.
Biochar is presented as a durable climate tool with practical farm-level benefits.
Talking Climate takes on biochar as a climate tool and keeps the focus on Applied Carbon's automated machines that turn infield crop waste into biochar.
A University of Utah study gives a clear, campus-level look at climate anxiety and how students are dealing with it.
This episode follows climate grief and eco-anxiety through a University of Utah study of undergraduate students. Ross Chambliss frames the conversation, while Jennifer Olmsted Shaw and Andrea Brunel walk through how the research was done and what it found.
Steven Novella and a rotating panel dissect weekly science news and debunk pseudoscience claims.
Bob McDonald anchors weekly multi-segment interviews on new research, from cricket courtship to moon missions.
Vox reporters trace how Botox, brain-speech implants, and scientific disputes actually happened.
Wastewater rarely gets a starring role.
This episode explores a University of Utah study on eco-anxiety among undergraduate students, finding higher levels in environmental studies majors and female students.
Ross Chambliss interviews Dustin Harper on paleoclimate evidence revealing planetary climate sensitivities.
Ross Chambliss starts with a straightforward climate question: how are plant ecosystems adjusting to shifting weather?
Ross Chablis opens at the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy at the University of Utah.
Ross Chambliss of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy at the University of Utah speaks with De Novo Food Labs co-founder Jean Lorenz about precision-fermented lactoferrin, a protein found in mammal milk and used in infant formula, supplements, and pharmaceuticals.
John Wang says his DICE Lab is building one-meter biomass benchmark maps from airborne laser scanning, because current above-ground carbon maps are too coarse and often miss changes caused by wildfire, urbanization, or drought.
Ross Chambliss opens with perovskites as crystal structures made in labs for solar panels.
Talking Climate's Ross Chambliss speaks with University of Wyoming PhD student Caitlin Tenney and Weber State economics professor Teresa Kavlovich about a Utah choice-experiment study on carbon tax earmarking.
54,000 glaciers, hard to shrug off.
Some bacteria eat methane.
Talking Climate interviews Jason Aramburu, co-founder and CEO of Applied Carbon, after the company won the $500,000 Wilkes Climate Launch Prize from the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy at the University of Utah.
Ross Chambliss introduces Austin Green, a postdoctoral researcher in biology with the College of Sciences Science Research Initiative.
Ross Chambliss speaks with Bjorn Soderberg, co-founder of Build Up Nepal, after the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy gave the organization its 2025 Wilkes Climate Launch Prize.
Ross Chambliss opens Talking Climate by asking whether climate change can be funny.