Miriam Nielsen
Miriam Nielsen makes climate science and environmental advocacy videos as zentouro, hosts Study Hall Sustainability, and researches climate extremes at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
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Known for
- Study Hall Sustainability2024 · Host of a 31-episode course
Study Hall - Summarizing the entire IPCC report in 5 minutes2023 · Video with ClimateAdam
YouTube - Why Don’t We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?2018 · Hot Mess host and writer
PBS Digital Studios - hello, i am a concerned scientist2026 · zentouro video for Project for Awesome
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Overview
- Also known as
- zentouro
- Work
- Climate scientist, video maker, writer and host
- Education
- Middlebury College; Columbia University
- PhD
- Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2025
- Known for
- zentouro, PBS Hot Mess and Study Hall Sustainability
Mini bio
Finding her people.
Miriam found community and a creative outlet on YouTube in 2007. Her first Project for Awesome video came in 2010, filmed in her grandmother’s basement with her dad’s camera. She went on to build zentouro around climate explanations with more context and personality than a headline can hold.
Science meets video.
At Middlebury, she studied environmental subjects while working as a photographer and videographer, including filming dance performances. That combination carried into work for CBS News and The Verge, then writing and co-hosting PBS Digital Studios’ Hot Mess alongside Joe Hanson and Talia Buford.
A wider classroom.
Her work spans climate policy, environmental justice and eco-anxiety. She collaborated with ClimateAdam on a five-minute explanation of the IPCC’s 2023 synthesis report, and hosts the 31-episode Study Hall Sustainability course. Harvard C-CHANGE and Pique Action included her among their 2022 Climate Creators to Watch.
Research behind the camera.
Miriam completed her Columbia PhD in 2025, studying interactions between soil moisture and precipitation. Her official site now describes her work as a postdoctoral research scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, improving a tropical cyclone risk model.
Creditschronological, newest first
- 2026hello, i am a concerned scientistCreator, zentouro
- 2025Tipping Point: Turning Science Into SolutionsGuest, PBS News
- 2025Energy costs are going up, here’s how we stop itCreator, zentouro
- 2024Study Hall SustainabilityHost
- 2023Summarizing the entire IPCC report in 5 minutesCreator and collaborator with ClimateAdam
- 2018Why Don’t We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?Host and writer, Hot Mess
Awards
Quotes
I filmed it in my grandmother's basement on my dad's cameraMiriam Nielsen, Earthjustice supporter profile
Remembering her first Project for Awesome video, made in 2010.
Trivia
- Her early camera work included filming performances for Middlebury’s dance department.
- Darcy, her dog, has appeared on Project for Awesome fundraising posters and a pin.
- Her video descriptions credit patrons with funding Spanish captions translated by a person.
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