Still "living and kicking"
I have not posted to the blog in a while but I am still “living and kicking” as my grandfather used to say.
I have been busy. Last year I was selected to be one of former Vice President Al Gore’s “Climate Messengers”. In less than a year, I gave over 40 presentations on climate change related issues including a debate at the Southern New England Weather Conference as to whether current global warming is natural or human driven.
This fall I was selected to be the new Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. Our Department has a new undergraduate degree program in Environmental Sciences that is part of the intercollegiate Colleges of the Fenway Joint Environmental Sciences Program. The program only started this year and we already have 17 first-year students.
Another project that I have been working on is the Encyclopedia of Earth. Think of Wikipedia but with peer-reviewed encyclopedia entries. I am both an author, topic editor, and a member of the EoEarth Stewardship Committee. Some of the articles on EoEarth have been organized into collections. I am one of the lead persons helping to coordinate and expand the Climate Change Collection of entries for the EoEarth.
While the entries to the Encyclopedia of Earth are written and edited by experts in their fields who have been approved by the Stewardship Committee and those entries only become published to the public after peer and editorial review, there is a related site to EoEarth that is a “Blog” open for submission and comments by a larger group of participants. If you like reading Blogs and are interested in possibly contributing to an environmentally-focused Blog, check out the Earth Forum.