Anthropocene ABD Postmortem
So I am officially ABD as of Friday afternoon. One more hurdle cleared on the long march towards completing my PhD studies here in New York. Having completed my dissertation proposal defense this...
Anthropocene Proposal Defense – Here We Go!
Come hell or high water tomorrow, which in New York these days it’s hard to know which is more likely, my PhD dissertation proposal defense will be over. I’m expecting it to be...
Hurricane Sandy: The New Normal Revisited
{Revised 11/4} *Added more discussion on the energy policy-natural disasters link – thanks to BL-T. Roger Pielke recently wrote a piece in the WSJ called ‘Hurricanes and Human Choice’ that discussed the relationship...
Anthropocene Omens: Is Hurricane Sandy Our Future?
Now that we’re almost a week past Hurricane Sandy having made landfall along the East Coast, and slamming us here in New York, we’re finally starting to get a picture of the full...
Frankenstorm Lives!
Before I could even say shazam, there he was, the famous monster Frankenstein, giving us the latest weather news on Hurricane Sandy. Ok, that’s not quite true: Frankenstein came later, after the...
The Borderlands of Catastrophism
Meet my new country, the Borderlands of Catastrophism! No seriously, it is my new country, thanks to a fascinating online game called NationStates by Max Barry. In short, the game is an...
