Annalisa Berta is professor of biology at San Diego State University, where she specializes in the evolutionary biology of marine mammals, especially baleen whales. Berta is coauthor of Marine Mamm

Les Beldo is a cultural anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His research examines the ethics of human-animal interaction expressed or implied in v

Eelco J Rohling is Professor of Ocean and Climate Change at the Australian National University. He is secondarily affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. His research f

Andy Horowitz specializes in modern American history. His research explores disasters and the questions they give rise to about race, class, community, trauma, inequality, the welfare state, metrop

John M. Dunn served two stints as interim chancellor of SIU Carbondale. After serving as interim chancellor in 2006-2007, Dunn went on to a successful 10-year presidency at Western Michigan Univers

James Estes is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California at Santa Cruz. Estes is a wildlife ecologist, recognized for his work on the

Kevin Peter Hand is an astrobiologist and Deputy Project Scientists, Europe with JPL. He studies and researches Earth]s extreme environment to gain insights into the climate conditions and study po

Amy Green covers the environment and climate change at WMFE (NPR Orlando). She is an award-winning mid-career journalist and author whose extensive reporting on the Everglades is featured in the bo

Deborah Rowan Wright is an independent researcher who writes about marine conservation. She has worked with the UK NGOs Whale & Dolphin Conservation, Friends of the Earth, and Marinet. Her work

Oreskes is author or co-author of 7 books, and over 150 articles, essays and opinion pieces, including Merchants of Doubt (Bloomsbury, 2010), The Collapse of Western Civilization (Columbia Universi

Robert C. Ritchie is Senior Research Associate at the Huntington Library and author of Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates.

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I am an associate professor in the department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies. Before I received my doctorate in history at the University of Chicago, I studied the history of art and arch

Seamus McGraw is the author of a few books, including the critically acclaimed The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone and Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Line of C

I'm a freelance writer and editor. I write about a range of things, from butchers to birth control, but, to generalize, most of what I cover happens outside. I like the intersection of science, adv

Evelyn Nakano Glenn is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies and founding director of the Center for Race and Gender, an organized research unit.

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Professor Bennett graduated from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, where she competed regularly in moot court competitions and received several recognitions for her dedication to pu

Political journalist Sasha Issenberg will be in residence as a Fellow in the Center for Civil Society in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the UCLA Department of Political Science for sp

Richard Bribiescas is Professor of Anthropology, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and former Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity. He is also a Primary Investigator in the Yale Repr

Andrew Lakoff holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Communication. He was trained as an anthropologist of science and medicine, and has conducted research in Argentina, Fran

Robert M. Kaplan is a Distinguished Research Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Fielding School.  He has served as Chief Science Officer at the US Agency for Health Care Research