This podcast examines the relationship between weather and the natural cycles of wildlife (studied in a branch of science known as phenology) and how climate change impacts both of these phenomena. Tom Howick, Director of Education at the Chattahoochee Nature Center, provides some insight into how climate change has affected atmospheric conditions and in turn, made inclement weather events more severe and thus damaging for certain freshwater ecosystems. Meanwhile, Lance Gunderson, an Environmental Science professor at Emory University, describes how these changes in weather patterns can alter the migration patterns of certain species and take certain organisms ‘out of sync’, placing them under physiological stress.

Brendan Sallee