Lori Keesey
Twenty Years Later, Still on the Job DOE-Sponsored Data Measurement Program Celebrates Anniversary
Sometimes it just takes just a few people, a nagging problem and the persistence to solve it to make a huge difference in how the scientific community understands something as crucial to planet preservation as climate change. In this engaging story, freelance writer Lori Keesey tells how a small group of scientists convinced the U.S. Dept. of Energy to establish the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program in 1989.
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May 25th, 2009
Articles, Climate, Earth Observation, Technology
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The Big Melt Warming Creates Hazards in the Arctic
Situated along the Ninglick River about 400 miles from the nearest road, the isolated Yup’ik Eskimo community already has lost its landfill and landing for barges. State and federal officials now believe worsening flooding will take homes and buildings within a decade, if not sooner.
Lori Keesey, posted on
February 3rd, 2009
Articles, Biodiversity, Climate
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The Threat to Nature’s Medicine
High in the eastern Himalayas grows a cottony white flower known for centuries among Tibetan and Chinese healers for its power to treat headaches, high-blood pressure, fertility, and menstrual problems. Despite its remote, rocky habitat some 13,000 feet above sea level, however, dual forces now imperil the slow-growing snow lotus.
Lori Keesey, posted on
December 2nd, 2008
Articles, Biodiversity, Health
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The Drought of 2007: A Foreshadowing of Things to Come?
The epic drought that stretched across the southeastern U.S. in 2007 won’t be forgotten soon. Water supplies plunged to perilously low levels and public officials imposed draconian conservation measures to protect a resource that had become more valuable than gold.
Lori Keesey, posted on
July 2nd, 2008
Articles, Disasters, Earth Observation, Water
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Scientists Share Views During International Polar Day Event
Two scientists participating in a live International Polar Day event March 12 provided their insights into what the future may hold and what decision-makers should do to address the issue.
Lori Keesey, posted on
March 27th, 2008
Articles, Climate
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Orbital Sunrise
The Expedition 24 crew on the International Space Station photographed this image of polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by an orbital sunrise. Polar mesospheric, or noctilucent ("night shining"), clouds usually are seen at twilight, following the setting of the sun below the horizon and darkening of Earth's surface. Occasionally the station's orbital track becomes nearly parallel to Earth's day/night terminator for a time, allowing the clouds to be visible to the crew at times other than the usual twilight because of the station's altitude. This photograph shows polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by the rising, rather than setting, sun at center right. Low clouds on the horizon appear yellow and orange, while higher clouds and aerosols are illuminated a brilliant white. Polar mesospheric clouds appear as light blue ribbons extending across the top of the image. The station was located over the Greek island of Kos in the Aegean Sea (near the southwestern coastline of Turkey) when the image was taken at approximately midnight local time. The orbital complex was tracking northeastward, nearly parallel to the terminator, making it possible to observe an apparent "sunrise" located almost due north. A similar unusual alignment of the ISS orbit track, terminator position and seasonal position of Earth's orbit around the sun allowed for this striking imagery of over the Southern Hemisphere. Image Credit: NASA
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