Science Survey: Notes on Nature Can Be a Telling Scientific Record of Home
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AAAS Meeting Offers Chance To Catch Enviro Scientists
Dozens of sessions on environmental topics are on the agenda at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to be held Feb. 18-22 in San Diego.
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White House Moves To Reinstate Bush-Suppressed Climate Reports
Katharine Jacobs, chair of the forthcoming National Academy of Sciences report on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change and a professor at the University of Arizona, will head up the effort to reinstate the National Assessment — with new emphasis on adaptation.
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"C.I.A. Data Sharing With Environmental Scientists Is Revived"
"The nation's top scientists and spies are collaborating on an effort to use the federal government's intelligence assets -- including spy satellites and other classified sensors -- as sensitive instruments that can assess the hidden complexities of environmental change. They seek insights from natural phenomena like clouds and glaciers, deserts and tropical forests."
Source: NYTimes, 01/05/2010
Toolbox: Google Scholar Opens Science to Everybody — Almost
A new tool makes finding, understanding, and communicating science easier for environmental reporters.
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"Troubled Waters, Part II: On the Trail of the Lost Data"
"In 2004, CDC scientists published a reassuring report about lead contamination in Washington’s water even though they knew that thousands of blood lead measurements had been lost. Now Congress wants to know why."
Source: AAAS Professional Ethics Report, 10/02/2009
Citizen Scientists Help Uncle Sam
As governments tighten their belts, it's getting harder for them to pay scientists to monitor the health of the nation's ecosystems. So increasingly, they're turning to citizens who do that kind of work for free. The Environment Report's Ann Dornfeld reports on the growing influence of these "citizen scientists".
Source: Citizen Scientists Help Uncle Sam, 09/14/2009
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