Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The case for the geosciences.
Recent months have seen a bit of back-and-forth between the Congress and the scientific community about the value of geosciences...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Women in weather.
Yesterday AMS and Northrop-Grumman put on a Google Hangout on Women in Weather. Their tagline? According to the National Science...
Hanging Out with Women in Weather
Today’s Google hangout on “Women in Weather,” cohosted by AMS and the American Astronautical Society and presented by Northrop Grumman,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Weather-Ready World
Why settle for a Weather-Ready Nation? Last week’s press release from the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, reprinted here...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Disaster experts send a message from Sendai.
The UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (UN WCDRR), held at Sendai, Japan from March 14-18 has reached...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Blogging by the numbers: 5-0-247.
Social media are widely understood to provide extraordinary new opportunities for connecting people and sustaining conversation and dialog. This is...
A Year Ago in Oso: Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
At 10:36 a.m. on 22 March 2014, near Oso, Washington, the earth began to move. At first the lower section...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Scientists and society: the social contract redux.
Some months ago, the folks at AGU were kind enough to invite me to write an opinion for Eos.org, reflecting...
AMS Programs
From Florida, A Reminder About Freedom of Expression
The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting published allegations this week that the terms “climate change” and “global warming” were banned...
For Data to Live Long and Prosper
On February 25, the AMS released its new policy on citations for data sources in journal articles. We were all...
