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Randy Showstack

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As seen in: The New York Times, Color Research & Application, Wiley Online Library, Oxford University Press (OUP), EcoWatch, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Charleston Gazette-Mail, RealClear Science, Offrange, AGU's Eos and
Covers:  environment, Earth science, climate change, science policy, space science, energy, federal science agencies, STEM education, ocean pollution, plastics pollution
Environment, science and health journalist, editor, communication consultant. Past President,DC Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists. RandyShowstack.com

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Accomplished journalist and editor with more than 25 years of experience reporting on environmental and earth science issues.

Communications professional expert in developing press materials, strategies, and campaigns, and in securing major media coverage to reach target audiences and drive change.

Skillful writer, editor, and science communicator for large and small projects, including helping environmental groups to craft reports and assisting scientists and others to improve their communic…

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Waiting on the next freshwater flush

Waiting on the next freshwater flush

The Arctic, as one of the fastest changing oceans and regions on Earth, "lends an urgency to understanding it…

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Biden's Justice40 initiative picking up speed after slow start - The New Lede

Biden's Justice40 initiative picking up speed after slow start - The New Lede

More than a year and a half after the Biden administration unveiled a sweeping commitment to bring opportunit…

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Academy Report Affirms Emergence of Biological Physics

Academy Report Affirms Emergence of Biological Physics

On 15 March 2022, William Bialek gave a talk to some 200 people at a business meeting of the American Physica…

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Climate Change Likely Driving Crop Insurance Costs Up | Ambrook

Climate Change Likely Driving Crop Insurance Costs Up | Ambrook

"Climate change is already having an impact on the crop insurance program." "The odds of there being more ext…

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Climate Change Likely Driving Crop Insurance Costs Up | Ambrook

Climate Change Likely Driving Crop Insurance Costs Up | Ambrook

"Climate change is already having an impact on the crop insurance program." "The odds of there being more ext…

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By Randy Showstack Verified
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) recently completed the successful relocation of the Pioneer Array to the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB). “If you wanted to go to one of the most complex coastal regions on the east coast of the United States, this would be it,” says Al Plueddemann, a senior scientist with WHOI and Principal Investigator for the Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) of OOI, pointing to the southern MAB.
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Research Analyzes the Role of Ocean Heat Transport and Surface Heat Exchange in Warming the Arctic Ocean and Reducing Sea Ice

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By Dina Pandya, Randy Showstack Verified
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
By Randy Showstack With the Arctic Ocean warming much more rapidly than the global average over the past several decades, the extent and thickness of sea ice in the Arctic has decreased dramatically. Climate models project that these trends will accelerate even more in the future.
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James Webb Space Telescope

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By Elise Cutts, L. Joel, Randy Showstack Verified, Sarah Stanley
| AGU's Eos
Posted inNews A new trove of free-floating planets, smaller and paired up more than expected, challenges stellar and planet formation models. Posted inNews Five galaxies, two nebulae, an exoplanet, and the early universe—JWST’s first images provide a cross section of the science yet to come. Posted inAGU News In August, Eos looks at what the first round of observations with the James Webb Space Telescope might reveal about faraway worlds.
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