Category: Climate Science
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Michael Rawlins, UMass Amherst – Climate Change 2015
Discussions of climate change are everywhere. Michael Rawlins, geoscientist at UMass Amherst, explores climate change in the context of last winter, one of the coldest on record for the northeastern United States. Dr. Michael Rawlins is an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst and the manager of its…
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Gabe Bowen, University of Utah – Ancient Warming Periods and Today
The climate has always been changing. Dr. Gabe Bowen, a geochemist at the University of Utah, offers an interesting profile of the climate as it’s been and as it might become. Dr. Gabe Bowen is a native of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (the one up there by Canada) and graduate of the University of Michigan (B.S.…
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Cliff Ross, University of North Florida – Coral Reef Ecology
Today on The Academic Minute, the interconnectedness of nature is on full display. A marine biologist at the University of North Florida, Cliff Ross is studying the ecology of the Florida Keys to better understand coral reefs. Dr. Cliff Ross is a marine biologist and associate professor in the Department of Biology at the University…
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Ian Hawes, University of Canterbury – Mapping Ice Algae with Underwater Drones
Ian Hawes and his team have a very hard job. Along with colleagues from Aarhus University and the University of Tasmania, the University of Canterbury lecturer is using underwater drones to map ice algae in Antarctica. Ian Hawes has been involved in polar science, both Arctic and Antarctic, for more than 30 years and currently…
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Kit Wesler, Murray State University – Archaeological Climate Perspectives
Interdisciplinary studies can provide insights heretofore unexamined. Kit Wesler, a professor of archaeology at Murray State University, presents an archaeological understanding of climate change. Dr. Kit Wesler is Jesse D. Jones Endowed Professor of Geosciences and Director of the Mid-America Remote Sensing Center at Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky. He has conducted archaeological field work…
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Richard Peltier, UMass Amherst – Indigenous Air Pollution
The term air pollution might evoke images of an industrialized city with many factories each with billowing smokestacks or a crowded freeway of cars pumping emissions into the atmosphere. But, as Richard Peltier, assistant professor of environmental health sciences at UMass Amherst, will show us, everyone should be aware of air they breathe. Dr. Richard…
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Tim Volk, SUNY ESF – Renewable Biomass
We’re facing a worldwide energy crisis, but biomass might be a revolutionary renewable resource we’re looking for. Tim Volk, a scientist at SUNY-ESF, profiles biomass and the potential benefits that this resource might hold. Dr. Tim Volk is a senior research associate at The State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry.…
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Jack Ridge, Tufts University – Geologic Time
The Earth is a few billion years old and a lot has transpired during that time. Dr. Jack Ridge, professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Tufts University, is working to more precisely understand geologic time in order to create an accurate record of the planet’s climate. Dr. Jack Ridge‘s…
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Dan Baker, University of Colorado – Inclement Space Weather
We’ve come very close to an interstellar calamity. Dr. Daniel Baker, a physicist at UC Boulder, is studying the dangerous weather patterns of outer space. Dr. Daniel N. Baker is Director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado – Boulder and is Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and Professor of…
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Ole Hertel, Aarhus University – Air Pollution Modeling
If you’re reading this right now, chances are, you’ve just taken a breath. Oxygen is one of those essential elements that allows us humans to live. Ole Hertel, an air pollution specialist and professor at Aarhus University, focuses his research on air quality. Ole Hertel is professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is a specialist…