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            Interview for Santa Barbara News Press story: Environmental impact of Christmas trees.December 24 2006.
Letter in Santa Barbara News Press. “Warming trend thickens ice sheet” [about Greenland].July 26 2006.
Letter in Santa Barbara News Press. “Gore's questionable path to White House.” A responseletter discussing Arctic warming. June 25 2006.
Update on Arctic Climate Change: official letter from Arctic Consortium of the U.S. to anumber of U.S. Senate and House committees. I was the lead author and signatory on this
 letter, as Chair of the Arctic System Science Committee.
Letter in Santa Barbara News Press. “Blame humans for global warming.” April 23 2006.Letter in Santa Barbara News Press. “Climate models long-term predictors.” March 10 2005.Letter in Santa Barbara News Press. “Mixing science, politics, clouds facts.” August 23, 2004.Column in the Santa Barbara New Press. Headline: “What’s good for the environment is goodfor the economy.” Lessons from the Trans-Alaskan oil pipeline. July 11, 2004.
Column in Santa Barbara News Press. “A lesson about Grad Students.” Jan. 14 2004.Interviews for newspapers and other science reporting: Anchorage Daily News, UCSB DailyNexus, Geotimes, National Geographic, Santa Barbara News Press, Science, Science
 News.
 
  Outreach presentations
            Status of Arctic Climate Change. Presentation for the United States Senate. Organized by theArctic Consortium of the United States (ARCUS). May 2006.
Climate change, the press, and the public. Panel presentation & discussion (with ElizabethKolbert, New Yorker Magazine, and James McWilliams, UCLA). May 2006.Humans and the Climate System: how to create an apparent controversy. Little House of OjaiSenior Center. April 2006.
Fahrstrup-Mortensen Lecture: The human role in the global climate system. Lecture and paneldiscussion. Solvang Danish Lutheran Church: this was part of an annual, nationally
 attended lecture series and educational event. March 2006.
Soils and Sedgwick: what happens belowground? Sedgwick Reserve Docents:  daypresentation and field trip. February 2006.
Presentations to Association of Pacific Rim Universities group on research at the SedgwickReserve. August 2004.
UC-HBCU AGEP Partnership Mini-Conference: Panel on Promoting Inter-campus ResearchCollaborations. July 2004.
Panels on “How to get a postdoc” for the GRIP program (Graduate Intern Program forstudents from AGEP Partners [Minority Serving Institutions]). July and August, 2004.
Public Lecture: Nitrate dynamics in California grasslands: why is groundwater nitrate sohigh? Santa Ynez Natural History Society. February 2004.
Public Lecture: Nitrate dynamics in California grasslands: implications for groundwaterquality. Santa Barbara Unitarian Society. February 2004.
Public Lecture: California Ecosystems: A tale of nitrate, cows, & vegetation change. PublicLecture in SB Main Library. Hosted by Environmental Studies Associates. 2003.South Coast Science Project- program for Middle and High School teachers, presentation and
 discussions. 2003.
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) program: Explorations in EnvironmentalScience. Presentation to the parents: Education and Explorations in Environmental
 Science and Policy. 2001.
Presentations in Advanced Placement Biology & Environmental Science. Laguna BlancaSchool. 2000, 2001, 2002.
California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education: Speaker and Panelist. 2000.“A future for Valley Oaks:” A workshop for scientists, ranchers, and land managers.Organized by the Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program. 1999.
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