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A Podcast About Climate, Science, and Life. https://deep-convection.org/
This episode was not recorded by Adam. It was recorded by Sumner, on February 20, 1980, when he, along with Rudolph Grey and Duncan Lindsay,...
In this episode, Adam talks to musician, archivist, and historian Weasel Walter. As a musician, Weasel’s work spans (quoting from his...
In this episode, Adam talks to Arto Lindsay for a second time. The first time (The Sumner Files, Episode Five) was remote, when Arto was in...
Adam talks about the crisis in U.S. science and higher education that is unfolding now, due to the multi-pronged assault on both by the seco...
Photo by Alon Koppel. Connie Burg, aka China Burg, Don Burg, and Lucy Hamilton, had never played the guitar before she joined Mars. But that...
In Adam’s memory, Sumner’s life is divided into the pre-Sue and Sue eras, with Sue being Susan Lehman, aka Sue Crane, aka Aunt S...
Cynthia Sobel, born Cynthia Schoenwetter, is Adam’s mother, and Sumner’s sister. So she knew Sumner from the very beginning of h...
As the front man in DNA, Arto Lindsay was one of the core No Wave figures from the start, and he and Sumner were good friends from the mid-1...
In this episode of the Sumner Files, Adam talks with painter David Reed. David’s paintings have been shown in galleries and museums in...
In this episode of the Sumner Files, Adam talks with Lydia Lunch! Lydia is a singer, poet, writer, actress, and self-empowerment speaker. Sh...
In this episode of the Sumner Files, Adam talks with photographer and graphic designer Julia Gorton about her experiences in downtown Manhat...
In this first proper episode of the Sumner Files, Adam talks with Mark Cunningham, the bass player in Mars and one of two surviving members...
This episode launches a new series about the artist and musician Sumner Crane (1946-2003). Scientist Adam Sobel — Sumner’s nephe...
Shortly after Hurricane Otis hit Mexico in late October 2023 after a very rapid (and poorly forecast) intensification, Adam sat down with Fr...
Bjorn Stevens’ main scientific interest is in the role of clouds in the climate system. He established himself early in his career as a lead...
Adam answers listener questions!
In this episode we take a break from guest interviews. Instead, Adam explains in detail how the podcast got started, how and why we do it, a...
Arlene Fiore got interested in air pollution first as a kid in the Boston suburbs, partly because she suffered from bad asthma, and that tau...
Aglaé Jézéquel’s journey began surrounded by books, in a home where knowledge was cherished. Aglaé shared her parents’ passion from an...
Sarah Kapnick’s journey in the climate world has not been a conventional one. Starting as a “math nerd in the Midwest”, he...
Growing up outside Braunschweig, just on the west side of the border with East Germany during the Cold War, Tapio Schneider spent a lot of h...
In keeping with this season’s excursions away from Deep Convection’s traditional focus on climate science, this episode features Abhisheik D...
Bob Kopp’s academic roots lie in the realms of paleoclimate, paleobiology, and ecology. But, inspired by a legacy of public service passed d...
In the second episode of this season, we’re branching out from the traditional, science-centered sphere of Deep Convection and into a...
Rebecca Morss’ scientific credentials are impeccable – a PhD in atmospheric science from MIT, more than 20 years of experience at the...
It’s been almost a year since our last episode, and we’re thrilled to announce the arrival of Season 4! In our season opener, Ad...
Gabe Vecchi’s research spans a remarkably wide range of topics: he started as an oceanographer, and studied intraseasonal variability in the...
In-Sik Kang’s career in climate science started about half a century ago, and it has been remarkable in many ways—scientifically, but also i...
Born to a space physicist father, Andy Dessler was steeped in science and academia from birth. Unlike other children of successful academics...
Growing up on Long Island, Sandra Yuter loved to go on field trips—she learned about how glaciers had shaped the environment around her and...
Chris Bretherton gravitated towards math and science as soon as he could read, which was at the tender age of three. His interest was probab...
Jane Baldwin has just completed her first year as an Assistant Professor at the University of California Irvine. Her combination of interest...
On her website, Kate Marvel describes her research like this: “I study climate forcings (things that affect the planet’s energy balanc...
Kelly Hereid had never heard of reinsurance companies when she got recruited by one while attending a scientific conference. A quick Google...
Ousmane Ndiaye’s path to becoming the director of Senegal’s national meteorological service was an unlikely one: Born in Senegal as the youn...
To climate scientists, Isaac Held probably needs no introduction. He is one of the deepest and clearest thinkers in the field, and his insig...
It’s been a while since we released the last episode of Deep Convection, but Season 3 is finally here! We are starting the season with...
When Shang-Ping Xie entered middle school in his home town about 300 miles southwest of Shanghai, China had just come out of the Cultural Re...
Growing up in South Africa under apartheid, George Philander had to follow a lot of laws that didn’t make sense to him, e.g., that he...
Suzana Camargo is one of the world’s leading experts on tropical cyclones — a type of storm that includes hurricanes — and their relationshi...
Nadir Jeevanjee is one of those rare people who have both depth and breadth in their skills. He is probably the only person who ever wrote a...
Fran Moore, an assistant professor in Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis, works at the intersection of environmental economics and...
Before Marshall Shepherd was bitten by the weather bug, he wanted to be an entomologist. But as luck would have it (at least for the fields...
On August 29, 2005, Deanna Hence was aboard a research airplane flying through Hurricane Katrina, a Category 5 hurricane heading for New Orl...
Brian Mapes fell in love with cumulus clouds when he was looking out an airplane window during his first flight, on the way to Iowa to toil...
Vishal Vasan, an applied mathematician at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences in Bangalore, India, thinks of himself as a “mat...
Sulochana Gadgil has had a life-long fascination with the Asian monsoon, the seasonally shifting wind pattern driving the rain storms which...
Deep Convection is back with a new season! Starting next Tuesday, February 2nd, we will release a new episode every other week. In this prol...
Melanie Bieli is a special guest in more than one way. She’s the first junior scientist to appear on Deep Convection, having just finished h...
For Ed Sarachik, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, science and art have always been complementary but equally important in...