James Hansen is EarthSky Scientist Communicator of the Year
Dr. James Hansen, an outspoken authority on climate change, has been selected as EarthSky Scientist Communicator of the Year. EarthSky asked its 600+ Global Science Advisors to nominate and vote on which scientist had best communicated with the public about vital science issues or concepts during 2008. Listen to Dr. Hansen in the 8-minute EarthSky Clear Voices for Science podcast, James Hansen on why scientists should speak out.
Fish exposed to antidepressants in the wild
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Orsola De Marco, an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History, studies the light of stars split into a rainbow of colors – what astronomers commonly refer to as a ‘spectrum.’
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Alex deSherbinin of Columbia University talks about the potential impacts of climate change on humans. Scientists believe climate change may force people in environmentally stressed regions to migrate.
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Marine biologist Jane Lubchenco describes the ocean dead zones off the northwest U.S. coast as “virtual wastelands of dead crabs, dead worms, dead anemones, just littering the sea floor.” Though most ocean dead zones are caused by pollution from fertilizer runoff, Lubchenco said, this case appears to be different. She suspects the culprit may be changes in coastal winds due to climate change.
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David Smeed of the National Oceanography Center in England talks about recently launched robot gliders that are monitoring a system of currents, known as the ‘Atlantic heat conveyor,’ which influences European climate.
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