Monthly Archives: January 2025

Who Tells your story? Reflections on oral history in the geosciences. Part 2.

Let me tell you what I wish I’d knownWhen I was young and dreamed of gloryYou have no controlWho lives, who dies, who tells your story? – Lin-Manuel Miranda[1] Continuing our LOTRW oral-history thread. Just outside DC here, my senior-living … Continue reading

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Reflections on oral history in the geosciences (with a NOAA/AMS terroir). Part 1.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene,          The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear: Full many a flow’r is born to blush unseen,          And waste its sweetness on the desert air. – Thomas Gray[1], Elegy Written in a Country … Continue reading

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Fire and Ice: a forecast for the end of the world – and sometimes, for the same-day’s national weather.

Leave it to the poet Robert Frost, writing more than a century ago, to capture in 9 short lines and 51 words the challenge facing the world, and perhaps its ultimate fate: Fire and Ice Some say the world will … Continue reading

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