Dr. Kim Wood

Like 20 years ago, me couldn't even fathom that I would, you know, publicly speak in any way, shape or form, especially recorded.

People could listen to this again.

Like what?

But like the way, like just sharing science is so valuable and,

Because it's connecting humans to other humans over things that we don't have control over.

But by learning more about them, we can better control what we do in the face of them.

This might be the weirdest thing, but learn your way around a computer.

It's amazing how much data are out there that you could potentially put your own perspective on if you have a little bit of...

knowledge of computers, of accessing data and programming languages like Python that are open source.

All the visualizations I do are made possible because programs like Python are just, people just post their code to Stack Overflow or GitHub and they're like, here, take it.

And so I've started doing the same thing for other people.

And equipping yourself with a skill in pursuit of something you're passionate about

That skill can be used in other ways too, but you also have more fun learning it because learning is hard if you're doing it in pursuit of this really interesting thing.

And being able to visualize data, interrogate data, all that kind of thing, it can serve you well in so many ways and also just give you insight into how to interpret what other people are sharing.

I'm Kim Wood.

I'm an associate professor at the University of Arizona.

I specialize in atmospheric dynamics and my pronouns are they, them.

Technically, yes, but the leftovers.

So because the storms don't like moving over land, they tend to fall apart when that happens, you're not going to still have a coherent quote-unquote hurricane by the time it gets to Arizona.

But the leftover moisture plume will come in and potentially drop quite a bit of rain.