#65 - Dr. Josh Willis - OMG: The Oceans are Melting Greenland!
Release Date: 10/16/2019
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info_outlineEpisode 65 features Dr. Josh Willis. Josh Willis is an oceanographer and climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the lead scientist for the NASA mission Oceans Melting Greenland (or OMG, for short), and the lead NASA scientist for the Jason missions, which measure sea level rise from space.
More information about the OMG project can be found at https://omg.jpl.nasa.gov/portal/ and Josh can be found in various places:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClimateElvis/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/omgnasa
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/joshkwillis
Listen to Climate Rock! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGfKRfyhvd0
Learn more about OMG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKJK7pLAR8k&t=13s
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