Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Recent environmental intelligence. Part 2. Air pollution and kids.
We know that air pollution, which takes many forms, including fine particulates, poses risks for all life on earth. But...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Matthew? It’s not the hurricane, it’s the vulnerability.
The previous three LOTRW posts took up the topic of environmental intelligence – addressing, tangentially, the state of the environmental...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Environmental intelligence, and the National Sea Grant Program at 50.
Start with this: environmental intelligence[1] faces two big challenges in the 21st century. The first is scientific/technical. The second is...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
20th Biennial Joint AMS/AGU Heads and Chairs Meeting 13 – 14 October 2016 Boulder, CO
Dave Jones is a leading figure in the Weather Enterprise (in fact, the reach of his innovation and influence extends...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
(Incidental) environmental intelligence[1].
Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan, Under Secretary of Commerce for Atmosphere and Oceans, and NOAA Administrator, has throughout her tenure, in...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Hope: GOES-R, the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, and the people behind these achievements.
In the year 2000, Andrew Delbanco, a Harvard professor, published The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope. An excerpt...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Relocating meteorology.
To be a physical scientist is to operate in a very confined world, treating only a small class of variables...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Why Johnny can’t read: and what you can do about it.
Back in 1955, Rudolf Flesch wrote a famous book by this title. In it, he decried a sight-reading approach then...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remote-sensing nostalgia
“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Every community needs a weather-ready stress test.
The story is heartbreakingly familiar. Once again[1], weather and water have hammered Louisianans. Figures put the recent death toll at...
