Joshua Brown
Senior Communications Officer for
Science and Environment
802-656-3039
joshua.e.brown@uvm.edu
It's Complex (Vermont Quarterly: cover article) Brains, army ants, tornadoes and the electric grid. They're connected--by complexity, says mathematician Peter Dodds.
When Good Maples Go Red pdf format (Rutland-Herald) What makes maples go red
one year but yellow the next? Scientists are on the case--and wondering
whether climate change means the end of leaf-peeping as we know it.
Talking Carbon with the Prime Minister of Norway (the view)
At forty-one, Gro Harlem Brundtland, a physician and mother of four,
took on a new job: prime minister of Norway. Now, she's the UN enoy on
climate change. I spoke with her about carbon levels, Sarah Palin, and
the global poor.
Drilling Down (Vermont Quarterly; cover article) What can
ice can tell us about heat? The
fate of the world’s sea levels rests largely on the ice of
Antarctica, where scientists such as UVM geologist Thomas Neumann are
searching for clues to the future in the frozen past.
Plug-in Hybrids Rate Less than $1 per Gallon (Rutland-Herald) With gas
approaching $4 a gallon, plug-in hybrid
electric cars like this one — donated to the UVM Transportation
Research Center by Central Vermont Public Service — could provide
consumers with another alternative to reduce the costs of the daily
commute. (Click here for pdf format)
Talking Climate with the New York Times'
Andrew Revkin (UVM Homepage) How far are
humans pushing up Earth's
thermostat? Andrew Revkin, the
prize-winning New York Times
science writer, visited UVM to discuss his more than 20
years
exploring this question. I spoke with him to learn more about what he
thinks it means to live on a warming planet.
Last modified May 19 2009 04:55 PM