NASA’s new Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite will map the Earth’s water in minute detail, providing valuable and incontrovertible information to communities who are trying to manage climate change. Host Marco Werman speaks about the project with Tamlin Pavelsky, the hydrology science lead for the SWOT mission and professor of Global Hydrology in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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