Adam was first drawn to science as a small child, then wanted to be a jazz musician in his late teens and early twenties, then went back to get a Ph.D. in atmospheric science – a field suggested to him by his girlfriend (now wife) who was already concerned about global warming back then in the early 1990s, though he wasn’t, yet. For Adam, since 2000 a professor at Columbia, Deep Convection is therapeutic, a chance to talk with friends and colleagues through the purpose and meaning of being a scientist at a time when so much, and especially climate, has become intensely political, and the relationship between science and the rest of society is contentious and unstable.
show host
Melanie first started listening to podcasts on long bike rides between New Jersey and Manhattan as a Ph.D. student at Columbia University. Now a postdoc at Caltech and biking in the eternal sunshine of Southern California, she thinks back fondly to wearing heated gloves on those loved-and-hated cold winter rides. Melanie has both a love of science and a deep interest in life stories – how people become who they are, their narrative of it, the relationships that shape them, and all the coincidences and (sometimes unnoticed) bifurcations along the way.
Melanie Bieli
CO-CREATOR AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Minnie is an artist whose work focuses on the landscape, an avid reader, and a yoga instructor. As an old friend of Adam’s, she was there in the early days of the podcast, back when its ultimate form was still a matter of debate and the audio tracks had not yet been edited. She listened to the recordings in their raw form and offered her unvarnished critique of each. Nonetheless, she and Adam are still friends; she continues to be one of the first listeners and provides a necessary non-academic perspective. With each episode, she has become educated in not only the technical and political aspects of climate science, but in the human dimension as well.
creative consultant
Despite being exposed to it by his father, podcast host Adam, from an early age, Eli somehow grew up relatively uninterested in the finer points of climate science, but still managed to acquire an interest in science more broadly, and he now studies genetics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. An enthusiast of music and the outdoors and an Appalachian Trail thru-hiker, Eli recorded the theme music to Deep Convection on the Squier stratocaster his parents bought for him in middle school.
Eli Sobel
Music composer
Post Production
duotone audio group is a full-service music agency and audio post facility with studios in New York and Los Angeles. duotone provides original music, supervision, audio post, sound design, artist collaborations, strategy, consultation, and mixing for advertising, film, television, podcasts, and multimedia companies.
Eugenio has been involved with music since he can remember, taking violin classes since he was three. Later on, he switched to the electric bass so that he could play, record and write songs with his friends growing up. Eventually, Eugenio got a masters in Music Technology from NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development and after graduating became a sound for film professor in the University of Sagrado Corazon in San Juan Puerto Rico from 2019 to 2022. In July 2022, Eugenio joined the duotone team as audio assistant and has been working with the Deep Convection team since. Working on the podcast has been a tremendous learning experience for Eugenio, each episode a fountain of insight into guests with diverse backgrounds.