Episode 27: Ed Kearns - Exploring the ocean, generosity, and a culture of data

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) ChaosPassion: 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   Ed’s playlist