# Jesse Keenan

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S23Episode 3: Design as integrity infrastructure – Pedagogical assurance in practice

How curriculum and assessment design generate credible evidence of learning. This six-episode season of The Thought Bubble explores how higher education can credibly assure learning in an AI-enabled world. Drawing on OES’s Connected Assurance Framework, the series brings together academic leaders,…

From Marine to Million Dollar HVAC Empire How Jesse Keenan Built Semper Fi (Audio)

What does it take to turn military discipline into a thriving business and build a company from a garage into a 100 million operation? In this episode of Skilled Nation, we sit down with Jesse Keenan, Marine Corps veteran and founder of Semper Fi Heating and Cooling, to break down the real path fro…

The HVAC Episode: Real Careers. Real Money. Real Grind.

What do a hotel clerk who fixed an ice machine on a whim, a man who walked out of prison and into a trade school, and a Marine who built a $100M HVAC company all have in common? They found their way into one of the most in-demand, overlooked, and flat-out lucrative careers in America. In this speci…

The HVAC Episode: Real Careers. Real Money. Real Grind.

What do a hotel clerk who fixed an ice machine on a whim, a man who walked out of prison and into a trade school, and a Marine who built a $100M HVAC company all have in common? They found their way into one of the most in-demand, overlooked, and flat-out lucrative careers in America. In this speci…

Is Southeast Louisiana Doomed?

A study published in May in the journal Nature Sustainability reports that the shoreline could eventually sit some 30 miles north of New Orleans. The finding does not come from a model. The authors dated a buried ridge north of the city and identified it as a shoreline from the last interglacial pe…

How High Can You Build a Seawall?

It’s a particularly watery moment, with a hurricane on the Gulf Coast and El Niño-fueled waves flooding California homes. Not helping: The seas are rising, and they’re going to keep rising. How much can we build to stop that? And if we can’t, what will happen to the places in the way of the waves? …

The Once and Future National Climate Assessment: NCA5

In episode 263, host Doug Parsons revisits one of the podcast's most ambitious episodes: a comprehensive guide to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), originally released in January 2024. With the Trump administration having halted work on the next assessment, dismissed its contributors, …

The Climate-Proof Identity: From California’s Ashes to the Shores of Duluth

In this episode of The Bird’s Word, hosts Connie and Claire examine the rising phenomenon of internal climate migration within the United States. The narrative contrasts the devastating "push factors" of California—where the 2020 August Complex fire scorched over a million acres—with the "pull fact…