Carolyn Whelan
What is your job? Lead, Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases Division, Global Monitoring Laboratory, NOAA. I oversee a team tracking greenhouse gases using sensors on planes, cell towers, mountains, islands, and ships. How are you helping
Carolyn Whelan
What is your job? Program Lead, Stationary Storage, Argonne National Laboratory. I work on energy storage. How are you helping cool the planet through your work? Last year was the sixth warmest since 1850. Among
Carolyn Whelan
What is your job? Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, Port of Corpus Christi. I oversee strategic planning, large-scale land-use decisions, and environmental functions such as regulatory permitting/compliance and proactive stewardship. I also work with customers
Carolyn Whelan
To shore up U.S. infrastructure and the health of the planet, we are only now starting to understand how the country's massive Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), passed last November, will help curb carbon emissions. Slowly,
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"It came from being a girl scout," Jacky Grimshaw said, on what sparked her to pursue a career in public service, working to make life better for Chicago's most vulnerable. "It instilled in me a
Carolyn Whelan
As a self-described military brat whose father's work brought her to England, Florida, Arkansas, and Virginia, Dr. Candice Piercy knew what she did NOT want to be. Not an active-duty officer. Not an academic. What
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For many, supersonic planes are the purview of boys. Think of Jake Gyllenhaal and his buddies in October Sky. But the sky is not the limit for Arlyn Andrews, who leads the Carbon Cycle Greenhouse
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As I reflect on my time at the watershed Rio Earth Summit — which birthed both citizen influence over UN talks and the famous UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) — and on today’s COP26, three things
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“I get seasick. My wife’s the sailor,” joked David Imamura, a lawyer specializing in white collar crime, now Chair of New York State’s (NYS) Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC), on his NYS listening tour. Monday brought
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In this month-long climate purgatory between a Climate/UN Week energized by a new ‘code red for humanity’ COP report and COP26 — where the real work must begin — it struck me that women, young people, and mayors