Man, things are moving fast this summer.
I've mostly been stuck in research mode, but it's been really productive. I am almost done with the tables for my first paper, which is going to be on arsenic and diabetes in Native Americans. Once that's done, I'll hopefully wrap up projects in mercury, perfume (musk fragrances), genetics, and stats. It's going to be hella busy from now until forever. But then after forever, if I'm lucky I'll be able to move back to California and keep doing this kind of work there. Yay wishful thinking!
On a less boring note, the cute boy from the wine shop gave me his number again (I'd lost it) and told me he has Monday off work. I will need to work a lot of Monday just to catch up on the arsenic stuff (I'm meeting with that boss on Tuesday), but hopefully I will be able to see him? I think I said this, but he's cute. Like, way cute.
And yeah. Life goes on!
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
RIP Steve Schneider
Today I learned that Professor Steve Schneider has passed away of a heart attack at age 65.
This is very sad news.
I can't say that I knew Steve personally. I had seen him at a few events and heard him talk, but I was not a climate student. I think that his passing is a blow to the environmental movement and to the direction of environmental science, and part of me feels a pang of "What are we going to do now?"
But what feels more important than his research and advocacy, is that he had been a friend and mentor to many of my friends, and was a close friend and colleague of many of the people I most respected as advisers. He touched the lives of many people I care about, and I am hoping that they are all okay.
His life and trials in the public policy arena have made a big impression on me, even though I only heard about them secondhand. I had heard that he had been misquoted once by a reporter, and as a result had been banned from testifying before Congress about climate science for over twenty years. I don't want to reduce the man's life and achievements to just a cautionary tale, but the fact that this could happen to an honest scientist makes me angry and sad, and paranoid. My friends and I were taught to record all interviews with the press touching on our research to avoid a repeat of this situation.
I recognize the huge positive impact that his man had on my friends, on science, and the world. RIP.
This is very sad news.
I can't say that I knew Steve personally. I had seen him at a few events and heard him talk, but I was not a climate student. I think that his passing is a blow to the environmental movement and to the direction of environmental science, and part of me feels a pang of "What are we going to do now?"
But what feels more important than his research and advocacy, is that he had been a friend and mentor to many of my friends, and was a close friend and colleague of many of the people I most respected as advisers. He touched the lives of many people I care about, and I am hoping that they are all okay.
His life and trials in the public policy arena have made a big impression on me, even though I only heard about them secondhand. I had heard that he had been misquoted once by a reporter, and as a result had been banned from testifying before Congress about climate science for over twenty years. I don't want to reduce the man's life and achievements to just a cautionary tale, but the fact that this could happen to an honest scientist makes me angry and sad, and paranoid. My friends and I were taught to record all interviews with the press touching on our research to avoid a repeat of this situation.
I recognize the huge positive impact that his man had on my friends, on science, and the world. RIP.
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