Let's chat climate and rocks with Dr Rosie Oakes.

Let's chat climate and rocks with Dr Rosie Oakes.

Author: Gemma Plumb & Aisling Creevey April 6, 2022 Duration: 43:04

Dr Rosie Oakes is an international climate services scientist with the Met Office, where she focuses on making the outputs from climate models understandable and accessible to people around the world, so they can be used to help them make climate informed decisions. She also happens to be incredibly funny and talented and brings geology to life. Aisling and Gemma agree they will never look at a rock the same again!

Rosie started her journey as a geologist and she loves rocks. She shares with us some very interesting facts about Edinburgh in this episode that you are definitely going to want to know too.

In this episode as well as chatting about Rosie's role at the Met Office, we also chat about paleoclimate, which is where we look at how the climate has changed in the past so that we can better understand what might happen to the climate in the future. Rosie also shares some ways in which we can help to reduce our impact on the climate.

We loved chatting to Rosie in this episode and learnt loads, and have seen gone away to find out more about the fascinating world of paleoclimate.

If you would like to check out some of Rosie's work, you can find her on twitter @DrRosieOakes and @drrosieoakes on Instagram.

If you would like to follow us on Twitter or Instagram here are our details: Instagram: FortheloveofweatherTwitter:4loveofweather.Thanks so much for listening and supporting the podcast.

Here are the links to some of the topics mentioned in the episode.

-The geologic history of Edinburgh: https://t.co/9JAhLAXicQ.

-Learning about the Earth’s history from ocean sediment.

-The drill ship website is here: https://t.co/lN8iP5ohfi and they’re currently on an expedition. Follow them @TheJR -Learn about the Chixulub drilling expedition (drilling in the crater of the asteroid that killed the dinos): https://t.co/6hcQt5zf5S

-If you generally love paleoclimate and want to learn more check out the time scavengers website: https://t.co/L6li95MqG3

-At Rosie's dream dinner party you’d meet Mary Anning https://t.co/E2pTADrJ9Vand Marie Tharp https://t.co/1xORQQJaEu


Ever find yourself actually enjoying a rainy afternoon or wondering why a certain cloud looks the way it does? You're not alone. For the love of weather is the ongoing conversation between meteorologists Gemma Plumb and Aisling Creevey, who have spent over fifteen years forecasting across the UK. This podcast captures the kind of deep-dive chats they've been having for years, moving far beyond simple small talk. They pull back the curtain on what weather really means for our daily lives, drawing on a surprising range of experience. Their professional paths have seen them predicting conditions for everything from major music festivals and national rail networks to agricultural harvests and even ice cream demand, giving them a unique perspective on how the atmosphere connects to the ground beneath our feet. Each episode feels like sitting with two experts who are still genuinely fascinated by their subject, discussing the science behind a storm front, the challenges of a long-range forecast, or how a shift in the wind can change an entire industry's plans. It's a look at the patterns and stories in the sky, grounded in the reality of jobs, life changes, and a shared curiosity that hasn't faded. Tune in for a human take on the forces that shape our days.
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