Yearly Archives: 2018

  • 2018

Warren Washington, UCAR

Warren Washington, UCAR
Warren Washington, a pioneer of climate modeling, shares his story with Rajul Pandya about his career in the atmospheric sciences. Discussing a lifetime pushing for the growth of diversity in the sciences and a better understanding of the climate. Going from climate scientist to climate policy advisory as a presidential appointee.
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Richard Stolarski, Johns Hopkins University

Richard Stolarski, Johns Hopkins University
Richard Stolarski, research professor shares the journey of his involvement with the movement to address ozone depletion. He discusses how a multi-disciplinary team of scientists came together to heal the ozone layer, and how the world came together with the 1987 Montreal Protocol, to phase out the use of ozone-depleting substances. According to Richard, most…
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Michael MacCracken, Climate Institute

Michael MacCracken, Climate Institute
Michael MacCracken, chief scientist with the Climate Institute came to Washington, DC supposedly for one year, to help ten different agencies involved in climate research to work better together. He stayed for nine years, becoming the liaison to Vice President Al Gore and his team addressing climate change. Michael shares how he found himself working…
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Paul Newman, NASA

Paul Newman, NASA
Paul Newman, Chief Scientist for Earth Science at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the co-chair to the Montreal Protocol, is one of the planet’s top ozone watchdogs – a self-described detective who looks for any chemicals which may deplete the chemical screen which protects the Earth from harmful UV rays from the sun.
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Mei Zheng, Peking University

Mei Zheng, Peking University
Mei Zheng studies and teaches atmospheric science at Peking University. She’s passionate about training the next generation of scientists, and ensuring that everyone has access to clean air. “A teacher’s job is to encourage, inspire, and challenge students to do the best they can do and imagine what they can achieve.” Mei knows that for…
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Student Scientists On Board, 1948

Student Scientists On Board, 1948
By Vicki Zwart Students have been an important part of the American Geophysical Union membership for more than 60 years.  Student participation in the Union was first explored in 1948 when a special committee investigated if adding a student membership grade was feasible. The committee discovered that college students could not give the Union the kind of financial support it was looking for. But committee chairman Woodrow C. Jacobs wrote in his…
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AGU’s “Coming of Age,” 1972

AGU’s “Coming of Age,” 1972
By Vicki Zwart The American Geophysical Union’s coming of age happened a little later than most. It was not until after the Union had turned 50 that it acquired independent legal status from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). AGU was created in 1919 when the National Research Council (under NAS) united two committees – the American National Committee of the International…
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