Episode 27: Ed Kearns - Exploring the ocean, generosity, and a culture of data
- Author
- Ryan McGranaghan
- Published
- Tue 08 Dec 2020
- Episode Link
- None
Show Notes:
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (02:00)
- Rachel Carson’s words (03:30)
- Scale of things and perspective
- Pioneers of oceanography: Rossby and Montgomery (07:30)
- Global conclusions from small data (09:30)
- World Ocean Circulation Experiment (10:00)
- Eye-opening expeditions (12:00)
- All kinds of ways of ’seeing’ (14:00)
- Evolution of distributing data (15:00)
- Recording our experiences (17:00)
- Books (19:45)
- Burr by Gore Vidal
- Iron Coffins by Herbert Werner
- Mentors and lessons:
- “Had to make mistakes myself to realize what they [were] trying to tell me all along”
- Thomas Rossby (25:00)
- Generosity of time and ideas
- Understanding of how people need to work together (28:00)
- Working across boundaries
- Curiosity-driven networks (29:50)
- NOAA Big Data Project (31:30)
- Establishing trust in group projects (34:45 and 37:45)
- The challenges of 2020 (37:50)
- Open Commons Consortium and Cancer Moonshot (49:20)
- The why and how of career shifts (52:00)
- First Street Foundation (54:00)
- Changing people’s minds about climate change
- More meaningful activities that just providing data
- https://floodfactor.com/
- Making effective data tools
- Not about prediction, but response (01:02:00)
- Humanity’s biggest advantage (01:07:00)
- Quantifying the risk due to and making decisions about climate change (01:12:00)
- Jenny Odell - art is being the orchestrator of attention (01:13:30)
- Giorgia Lupi episode
- Aoife Van Linden Tol episode
- What makes us human (01:14:00)
- Lightning round (01:15:00)
- Book: The Information (James Gleick)
- Passion: family and outdoors together
- Heart sing: fire risk
- Screwed up: learning to say when he didn’t know something
- Find guest online:
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/edwardkearns
- Twitter: @edward_j_kearns
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
