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John Friedrich (56) talks with his friend Bob Alpern (92) about his lifelong work against nuclear weapons and nuke tests, beginning with revulsion of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and reaction to a full page New York Times...

Bärbel Hönisch, Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences at Columbia University also known as Queen of Boron, transported us millions of years beyond the ice cores to the realm when Greenland had no ice. She took hold of a magical instrument...

Spoke with my mother about her job as the deputy director of the children’s museum of manhattan, and how she got to go to the White House and speak about her work initiative with sam kass, who at the time...

Mary Hudson and Bill Lotko are both professors at Dartmouth University and researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Both study space physics, with Mary focusing on Van Allen radiation belts, and Bill looking at interactions between the magnetosphere...

In this interview, I asked my grandma a few questions that I thought were worth asking about her life. The questions asked were ones that allowed me to get to know my nana a little more.

Interview with dad about growing up, religion, and his favorite memories of me and our family.

this is an interview with me asking a couple of questions to my mom

In this story, grandpa Ed talked about his complicated teenage years. This was very special because I rarely see him.

He talks about his family, childhood, and values. He also mentions how his life has been and how he hopes the future will be better.

My grandmother, age 72, was born and raised in Washington DC before moving down to South Carolina. Her father died of cancer at a young age for her, which she speaks of in this interview. She has had a very...

Clint McGuire (55) talks with his former professor and long-time friend, Jack Benjamin (70), about Jack's early years in theatre and his role in building a theatre department from scratch at the University of South Carolina Aiken.

1949-1956 College, Williams & Harvard, being in the army in Europe.

Clouds are among the most unpredictable components of climate models. But Norman Loeb is working hard to sort out the shape of cloud patterns in order to improve the accuracy of long-term weather predictions. As far as understanding how all...

This was a great interview. We discussed many topic about Katumu’s life and learned more about them.

We went through a short summary of his life and some of the major events throughout that time span.

Even through these hard times we can find the silver lining. My sister has to stay at home with her baby all day and cannot leave. She has just recently found out that she is pregnant and now she is...

Brian Day, of NASA’s Solar System Exploration Virtual Institute, leads a group of scientists in visualization and analysis of spacecraft data. Brian was taught that there’s no water on the moon, there’s no atmosphere on the moon, and the moon...

One Small Step participants Julaine Hunter (49) and Rhonda Jones (52) talk about the ways their childhoods shaped their politics, how COVID has affected them, and the recent loss of Julaine's daughter.

Initial discussion with dad about growing up and meeting mom

Kristen Erickson, Director of science engagements and partnership, recently helmed NASA’s efforts to involve over 154 million adult Americans with direct participation with the 2017 total eclipse – the largest engagement effort in NASA history. But in her more than...

One Small Step conversation partners Marjorie Beale (62) and Kristina Faliciano (55) reflect upon the values instilled in them by their parents, the differences they've had with their parents and the importance of compassion and listening.

Caroline Patterson (63) talks with her mother Laura Mae Patterson (92) about her upbringing, the many different places she's lived and how she settled in Montana.

Sorority sisters Laura Peterson (52) and Morgan Trevino (28) have a conversation about Delta Gamma.

Putting up tall PVC pipes with pointy sensors to measure electrical fields in an approaching lightning storm may seem reckless, but it’s all part of the job for Timothy Lang. The NASA research scientist spends a lot of time in...

In the mid-2000s, a small group of leaders at AGU, including Peter Fox, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, saw an opportunity to shape or reshape how geoscientists work together under a new cross-cutting discipline. As a result, “Earth and space Science Informatics”...