Welcome to the Triple Point Podcast, a podcast for those working at the intersection of weather and climate, technology, and society. We focus on innovators and leaders working to make our communities safe and resilient in the face of a dynamic and ever changing world. We are your hosts Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris. The Triple Point Podcast is owned and operated by 81 Degrees, LLC.
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The Accelerating AI Landscape in Weather with Amy McGovern
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Oceanography & Senior Technical Staff Member Description: A lot has changed in the AI-weather prediction space since the summer of 2023. Dr. Amy McGovern from the University of Oklahoma joins the Triple Point® again, a year since she last joined Jeff and I, to catch listeners up on the state of Artificial Intelligence in numerical weather predictio…
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NOAA Science Outside the Box with Sarah Kapnick
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Show Notes Hosts: Ryan Harris and Guest Host Wayne MacKenzie Guest: Dr. Sarah Kapnick, NOAA Chief Scientist Description: When NOAA selected Dr. Sarah Kapnick as the agency's Chief Scientist, in many respects she was an "outside of the box" selection. True, she already had a strong pedigree of science experience, something one would expect for the C…
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Talent Management Outside the Box with Kris Saling
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Show Notes Host: Ryan Harris Guest: Colonel Kris Saling, Director of Innovation at U.S. Army Recruiting Command Description: Technology across career fields, from artificial intelligence to cloud computing and more, is advancing so rapidly. But technology is just one of many tools in our toolbox, and at the end of the day, communities, governments,…
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Re-thinking Coastal Adaptation with Rob Young
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Show Notes Host: Ryan Harris Guest: Dr. Rob Young, Director for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University Description: Next up in our series of “Outside the Box” conversations is a discussion with Dr. Rob Young on how “the box” for coastal resilience may actually be inside out. Conventional wisdom for coastal adaptation is al…
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Weather Outside the Box with Scott Mackaro
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Host: Ryan Harris Guest: Scott Mackaro, Head of Insights and Innovation, Vaisala X-Weather Description: What if NOAA’s global weather model didn’t exist in 10 years? It’s a provocative question that challenges conventional wisdom, but it’s a question worth considering as Google, NVIDIA, and others are challenging the weather modeling space with the…
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Salient Innovations in Seasonal Prediction with Matt Stein
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Show Notes Host: Ryan Harris Guest: Matt Stein, CEO, Salient Predictions Description: The atmosphere is the main driver of our daily weather. But it's the oceans, with its long-term thermodynamic memory, that drive our climate patterns from seasonal, to decadal, and beyond. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center and an increasing number of private indust…
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Evolving Public Risk Perception with Brian LaMarre
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Show Notes Host: Ryan Harris Guests: Brian LaMarre, NWS Meteorologist in Charge, Tampa Bay Description: In 1900, an estimated 8,000 people lost their lives in the Great Galveston Hurricane that September. Our understanding of hurricane risk has improved immensely since then, but still over 100 were killed just 18 months ago in Hurricane Ian. Risk i…
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The Triple Point Podcast Presents the Best of 2023
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Show Notes Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris (and Eric Hunt for Episode 23) Guests: All 2023 Guests Description: Welcome to the final Triple Point™ Podcast of the year. And what a year it's been! If you didn't get a chance to listen to our monthly episodes in 2023, this 90-minute episode will get you fully caught up on all the insights you mis…
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Public-Private Tech Partnerships with Wayne MacKenzie
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Show Notes Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: Wayne MacKenzie, Program Manager, NOAA Technology Partnerships Office Description: NOAA’s Technology Partnerships Office serves the U.S. economy by transferring government-developed scientific and technological innovations to commercial applications, facilitating strategic public-private part…
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Weather for UAS and Air Taxis with Don Berchoff
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Show Notes Host: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: Don Berchoff, CEO of TruWeather Solutions Description: Who pays attention to the weather when there is no pilot on board an aircraft? This is the situation for beyond visual line of site (BVLOS) unmanned aerial vehicles which fly without the world's best weather sensor, a pilot. Don Berchoff a…
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New Weather Value Propositions with Paul Walsh
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Show Notes Host: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: Paul Walsh, CEO of Meteomatics N.A. Description: “There’s an amazing amount of unclaimed value in businesses bringing in weather and climate data.” That’s from Paul Walsh, CEO of Meteomatics N.A. and our most recent guest on the Triple Point™. In order to create repeatable business revenue wit…
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Weather in the Courtroom with Dan Schreiber and TC Moore
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Show Notes Host: Ryan Harris Guest: TC Moore (Owner of Atlantic States Weather) and Dan Schreiber (CCM at J.S. Held) Description: Billions of dollars in insurance and personal injury litigation cases get settled every year in the U.S. In some of these cases, the weather can become a significant factor in proving or disproving damage, negligence, or…
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Weather Modification and Geoengineering
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Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: N/A Description: “Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.” ~ E.F. Schumacher. Mankind has a fascination with attempting to control nature to fit our way of life, whether well-intentioned or not. It’s no different with the…
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AI in Weather and Climate with Drs. Amy McGovern and John Williams (Part II)
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Show Notes Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guests: Dr. Amy McGovern, Professor at University of Oklahoma Director, NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography & Senior Technical Staff Member Dr. John Williams, Head of Weather AI Sciences at The Weather Company, an IBM Business Description: Is…
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AI in Weather and Climate with Drs. Amy McGovern and John Williams (Part I)
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Show Notes Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guests: Dr. Amy McGovern is a Lloyd G. and Joyce Austin Presidential Professor in the School of Computer Science and in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. Dr McGovern is also the director of the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oc…
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Non-Profit Climate Intelligence with Dr. Ed Kearns
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Show Notes Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: Dr. Ed Kearns, Chief Data Officer at First Street Foundation Description: What’s the best way to get more people to pay attention to the risks posed by climate change? Democratize the data for free and personalize the story behind it. That’s what non-profit First Street Foundation is doing wi…
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Commercial Weather Modeling and Services with Brent Shaw
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Show Notes Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: Brent Shaw, Senior Director of Scientific and Content Engineering at DTN Description: Weather and climate is big business, but business value creation is not always created with only running the best weather models. Instead, value is generated when weather companies solve customer problems. L…
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Show Notes Hosts: Jeff Cunningham, Ryan Harris, and Guest Host Dr. Eric Hunt Guest: Marisol Maddox, Senior Arctic Analyst at the Polar Institute for the Wilson Center Description: The Arctic is a hot topic, both literally and figuratively. The region is experiencing warming two to four times faster than the rest of the globe, and the far-reaching i…
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Hunting Hurricanes with Jeremy DeHart and Kyle Larson
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Show Notes Host: Ryan Harris Guests: Lieutenant Colonels Jeremy DeHart and Kyle Larson, U.S. Air Force 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (aka The Hurricane Hunters) Description: Most people run from hurricanes. Jeremy DeHart and Kyle Larson run toward them, or rather, they fly into them...on purpose. They are part of the storied unit, the United…
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Weather and Wellness with Bonnie Schneider
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Show Notes Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: Bonnie Schneider, Meteorologist and Author of two books including Taking the Heat Description: The Triple Point Podcast is back in 2023, and Ryan makes a bold prediction for the new year as we kick things off with a great show hosting Bonnie Schneider to talk about her latest book, Taking the…
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Earth Observation Technology with Aravind
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Show Notes Hosts: Jeff Cunningham, Ryan Harris, and Guest-Host Aravind Ravichandran from TerraWatch Space Guest: No Guest Description: The first satellites were launched in the early 1960s, but beyond pretty visual imagery, it wasn't until almost 1980 that we found a way to actually harness the power of the data sensed from these Earth Observation …
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Air Quality with Eric Klos from Daily Breath
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Show Notes Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: Eric Klos, CEO and Founder of Daily Breath Description: Over 330 million people in the world suffer from asthma, and even more find themselves sneezing and wheezing when it comes to irritating allergies. Environmental information helps inform air quality warnings, but right now those warnings…
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Episode 18 - Climate and National Security Show Notes Hosts: Ryan Harris Guest: No Guest Description: Do a changing climate and extreme weather equate to national security threats? It’s a matter of policy and opinion that has unfortunately been over-politicized like so many other things in today’s society. But if you think military, economic, healt…
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Episode 17 - Better Sensing = Better Prediction Show Notes Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: No Guest Description: Sensing technology and the environmental observations they take provide the data fuel that powers weather prediction. More quality observations are needed across land, sea, and air to more accurately predict everything from…
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Episode 16 - Weathering the Built Environment Show Notes Hosts: Ryan Harris Guest: No Guest Description: As Hurricane Ian slammed into the southwestern Florida coast this week, the storm served as a stark reminder of the significant impacts weather and climate have on the built environment. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy brought nearly $70 billion in inf…
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Episode 15 - Global Water Security Show Notes Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guests: Mr. Mike Gremillion, Director of the Global Water Security Center and Dr. Kate Brauman, Associate Director for Communications and Analysis Description: Our human bodies are made of more than 60% water, and water makes up 71% of Earth, yet only 0.5% of the w…
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Episode 14 - Weather and Climate in Agriculture Show Notes Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: No Guest Description: The agriculture sector makes up one of the largest market shares supported by the weather and climate industry. In this Triple Point Podcast episode, Jeff and Ryan briefly trace the historical move to agrarian societies to …
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Show Notes Hosts: Ryan Harris Guest: No Guest Description: Do you know where your energy comes from? The minerals needed for your solar panels and battery technology? The chips in your mobile device that you’re listening to this podcast on? How about the food on your table or the complex supply chain that, as we saw during COVID, really is the oil …
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Weather in the Line of Fire (Part II: Energy Under Fire)
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Episode 12: Weather in the Line of Fire (Part II: Energy Under Fire) Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: Alex Hoon, Senior Meteorologist at NV Energy Description: In Part II of our discussion with Alex Hoon from NV Energy, we discuss how energy firms are mitigating future fire risk by using spark-resistant technology on power lines, contr…
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Weather in the Line of Fire (Part I: The Incident Meteorologist)
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Show Notes Episode 11: Weather in the Line of Fire (Part I: The Incident Meteorologist) Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: Alex Hoon, Senior Meteorologist at NV Energy Description: Alex Hoon from NV Energy joins us this week to talk about his time “deploying forward” to help battle wildfires out west armed with his weather skills and tac…
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Sector Focus: Powering the Utilities Industry with Weather and Climate Info
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Episode 10: Powering the Utilities Industry with Weather and Climate Info Host: Ryan Harris Guest: No Guest Description: Even before the recent passage of the historic Inflation Reduction Act climate legislation, the utilities sector was already heavily reliant on weather and climate services. The passage of the IRA and its omission of significant …
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Weather and Climate in the Public & Charitable Organizations Sector
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Episode 9: Weather and Climate in the Public & Charitable Organizations Sector Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: No Guest Description: Is there still a place for the government sector to provide weather and climate services? We think so, but as you’ll hear in this episode, Jeff and I believe it takes a symbiotic relationship between gov…
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Episode 8: The Business of Weather and Climate Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: No Guest Description: In two separate reports in 2016 and 2019, NOAA evaluated just the U.S. weather industry to be worth $35 billion. In the last six years starting with IBM’s purchase of The Weather Channel, and especially in the last two years, the indus…
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Recording Date: July 27, 2022 Episode: #7 - The Intersection of Climate and Health Host: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: Dr. Jesse Bell, the Claire M. Hubbard Professor of Health and Environment, UNMC Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health, College of Public Health Description: Ryan and Jeff sit down with Dr. Jesse…
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Episode: #6 - Heat Waves, Cows, and Muppets--Oh my! Host: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: No Guest Description: In this episode, Ryan and Jeff talk about the ongoing heat waves across what seems to be the entire world lately and the impacts on society including energy, agriculture, cattle, and more. Even the Muppets get a surprise invocation…
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Episode: #5 - Water Security Part Deux Host: Ryan Harris Guest: No Guest / 5-minute Lightning Podcast Description: In this episode, Ryan dives a little deeper into water security issues threatening the American West illuminated further during his five-week road trip. Article and Book References The lake that left town: why is this California town d…
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Episode: #4 - Water Security Teaser Host: Jeff Cunningham Guest: No Guest / Lightning 5-minute Podcast Description: In this episode, Jeff presents a few news articles about shrinking lakes in the US west, some key science data points, and briefly discusses the need for solving this problem. News References: Feds: Lake Mead could become 'useless' wi…
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Episode: #3 - The Big Earth Data Platform Explosion! Host: Jeff Cunningham Guest: No Guest / 10-minute Podcast Description: In this episode, Jeff presents on the explosion of Big Earth Observation Platforms in the marketplace, discusses their application to society, and makes a prediction on which quality will drive the most economic value. Give us…
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Episode: #2 - The Heat Is On Host: Ryan Harris Guest: No Guest / 5-minute Podcast Description: In this lightning quick podcast, we briefly cover the record-breaking heat baking parts of the globe from India and Pakistan to Texas. Beyond the obvious human health impacts, the heat has detrimental effects on agriculture, energy, and fighting wildfires…
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Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: Matt Stratton, Harrison County, MS Director of Emergency Management Description: For our first episode we chatted with Matt Stratton from Harrison County, MS Emergency Management. We had a lively discussion on weather and climate, technology and how that connects with society. We also discussed a 2020 “…
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Welcome to the Triple Point Podcast, a podcast for those working at the intersection of weather, climate, technology and society. We focus on innovators and leaders working to make our communities safe and resilient in the face of a dynamic and ever changing world. We are your hosts Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris.…
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