Desert Research Institute

Our main goal is to create high resolution data sets as well as decision making tools to support climate mitigation, climate adaptation and nature conservation.

And we've worked with various clients like Project Drawdown, Desert Research Institute, Cecil and so forth to create such tools that can support planetary health essentially.

Okay, and I should confess to the audience that we know each other already from when I was MC of an event arranged for New York Climate Week by Priscilla Cole, where both yourself and Alex Logan of CECL gave presentations at, of all things, an insurance library at a university in Manhattan.

So, yeah, good to see you again and continue this encounter.

Indeed, many pilots who have nearly crashed in the Nevada Triangle near the Sierra Nevada have reported experiencing a deep sense of confusion and profound disorientation during their flights.

Professor Kelly Redmond, a climatologist with the Desert Research Institute in Reno, has looked at wind formations in those mountains seeking answers.

Redmond told KNPR that much of the problem in the Sierra Nevada is because of the wind.

The mountain range runs almost perpendicular to the jet stream, that along with their shape, which is wedge-like, creates wild wind conditions.

And if I had to pick another one, I would pick my recent trip to Antarctica.

That was a trip that I did with Alison Murray at the Desert Research Institute and Bill Murray from Southern Florida.

And it was just like a discovery channel type of work.

We were on a ship for five weeks.