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Editor, Osiris 26, Klima.
Editor, History of Meteorology
Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2006-07
AAAS Roger Revelle Fellow in Global Stewardship, 2006-07
Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, 2005-06
Founding President, International Commission on History of Meteorology meteohistory.org
Biosketch
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A history of Earth System Science.
A biography of Harry Wexler (1911-1962).
The discovery and disruption of the Van Allen radiation belts in 1958.

Fixing the Sky: The checkered history of weather and climate control. Columbia University Press, 2010.

Publications

“The Pathological History of Weather and Climate Modification: Three cycles of promise and hype,” Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 37, no. 1 (2006): 3-25. link

"The Climate Engineers," Wilson Quarterly (Spring 2007). link

The Callendar Effect. The life and work of Guy Stewart Callendar (1898-1964), the scientist who established the carbon dioxide theory of climate change. Boston: American Meteorological Society, 2007.

Climate Change and Anthropogenic Greenhouse Warming, 1824-1995: A selection of key articles, with interpretive essays. National Science Foundation, National Science Digital Library, 2008. link

Earth Observations from Space: The First 50 Years of Scientific Achievements. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 2008. link