May 22, 2018
Down to Earth With: Dr. Jonathan Patz
From stitching up cuts in Missoula, Mont., to authoring parts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, Dr. Jonathan Patz has …
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May 22, 2018
Down to Earth With: Matthew Parker
Matthew Parker In 1985, the television show NOVA dedicated an entire hour to the pioneers of tornado research, the men and women who first spent …
May 22, 2018
Down to Earth With: Hope Jahren
Hope Jahren is often described as a biogeologist, but that seems too narrow a description. Currently a professor at the University of Hawaii in …
May 1, 2018
"Greening" stormwater in Philadelphia
When environmental geologist David Wilcots joined Sci-Tek Consultants in 2014, he became involved with the Philadelphia Water Department’s Green …
April 10, 2018
Down to Earth With: National Park Service senior paleontologist Vincent Santucci
When Vincent Santucci was hired in 1985 to work as a seasonal ranger in South Dakota’s Badlands National Park, he assumed the most formative part …
March 19, 2018
Down to Earth With: Conservation engineer Emily Pidgeon
“I can be a very blunt object,” says Emily Pidgeon, describing how she moves through the world and how she approaches her work. Her Australian …
March 9, 2018
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist and astronomer Tom Kaye
What do paleontology, astronomy and paintball guns have in common? For one, they have all been pursuits of Tom Kaye. Kaye, a research associate …
March 9, 2018
Down to Earth With: Award-winning sci-fi novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
Don’t let Kim Stanley Robinson fool you. He may know a lot about the geography of Mars and ocean acidification, but he’s no scientist. He’s an …
February 27, 2018
Down to Earth With marine geoscientist Harold Tobin
As a boy growing up on the East Coast, Harold Tobin loved being outdoors but was not all that excited by geology or the region’s ancient rocks. …
January 9, 2018
Down to Earth With: Wildfire meteorologist Craig Clements
Not many people are able to combine their work and hobbies the way Craig Clements, a meteorologist at San Jose State University in California, …
January 2, 2018
Down to Earth With Kateryna Klochko
Kateryna Klochko made a splash in the ocean geochemistry world as a doctoral student at the University of Maryland in College Park. She had been …
December 11, 2017
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh
A perfect day in the life of paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh wouldn’t be complete without a fresh corpse. The subjects of his work at the …
November 14, 2017
Down to Earth With Richard Prum
Prum, a professor of ornithology at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., was an avid birdwatcher as a kid and thought he might grow up to be a …
October 18, 2017
Down to Earth With: Deep-sea biologist Stace Beaulieu
People often find their way to the geosciences after a college class sparks their interest. But not Stace Beaulieu, a senior research specialist …
September 20, 2017
Down to Earth With: Alexander Stewart
Sgt. Alexander Stewart was brought up to believe serving in the military was an obligation all young men should fulfill. In 1991, at the age of …
September 18, 2017
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Gregory Erickson
As an undergraduate at the University of Washington, Gregory Erickson wasn’t sure what he wanted to do. He started out as an engineering major, …
September 1, 2017
Down to Earth With: Evan Thomas
At age 16, Evan Thomas made a list of 100 life goals — his bucket list. At only 27 years old, he’s done pretty well so far: Graduate college with …
August 25, 2017
Down To Earth With: John Underhill
“The Odyssey” follows Odysseus’ 10-year journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. John Underhill, a stratigrapher at the University of …
August 16, 2017
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Lisa D. White
As a college student at San Francisco State University, Lisa D. White’s first choice of major was photography. She was drawn to landscapes, and …
July 21, 2017
Down to Earth With: Cave microbiologist Hazel Barton
In the early 1990s, when Hazel Barton was pursuing her doctorate in medical microbiology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in …
June 20, 2017
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Gifford H. Miller
“Hope for the unexpected.” This motto has pulled paleoclimatologist Gifford H. Miller to remote corners of the world to conduct fieldwork for …
May 19, 2017
Down to Earth With: Biogeochemist Stephen MacAvoy
When Stephen MacAvoy was growing up in the suburbs of Connecticut, most of the animals he encountered were pets: dogs, cats or the occasional …
April 20, 2017
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Gerta Keller
The mass extinction that did in the dinosaurs is one of the best-known events in geology. It’s also one of the most contentious. For years, the …
March 15, 2017
Down to Earth With: Planetary geologist James W. Head III
In the late 1960s, as James W. Head III was finishing his graduate degree in geology at Brown University in Providence, R.I., he decided one day …