An Open Letter from U.S. Scientists Imploring President Biclen to End the Fossil Fuel Era
October 7, 2021
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W. Washington, DC 20001
Dear President Biden,
As U.S. scientists, we write with the utmost alarm about the state of our climate system. As overwhelming evidence shows, the reality of our situation is now so dire that only a rapid phase-out of fossil fuel extraction and combustion can fend off the worst consequences of the climate crisis.
In this time of peril, we call on you to fulfill your campaign pledge to listen to science, take bold action to lead the nation back from the brink of runaway climate chaos, and lead the world in a rapid transition away from fossil fuels. We urge you to:
• Completely stop federally authorized fossil fuel expansion by banning new federal fossil fuel leasing, fracking, and drilling on public lands and waters; directing federal agencies to stop issuing permits for fossil fuel infrastructure projects from pipelines to petrochemical plants; and ending fossil fuel exports and subsidies;
• Declare a climate emergency to reinstate the decades-long ban on crude oil exports, direct a portion of military spending to a rapid construction program of renewable energy projects, and provide loan guarantees to advance a rapid, just buildout of clean renewable energy;
• Abandon industry delay tactics including carbon capture and storage, blue hydrogen, and carbon offsets, that impede the rapid transition to renewable energy and allow the fossil-fuel era to continue. These industry schemes are dangerous distractions.
The people of the United States are already experiencing intensifying climate disasters caused primarily by extracting, transporting, and burning fossil fuels, and the types of disasters we are living through now are certain to get worse - much worse - without emergency action. Black, Brown, Indigenous and impoverished frontline communities bear the brunt of climate disasters and other fossil fuel industry harms, including air and water pollution that increase the risk of respiratory illnesses, pre-term births, cancer, and premature death.
Unfortunately, despite your campaign pledge to "listen to science" and your declaration that climate change represents an "existential threat," your approach to fossil fuels is inconsistent with the kind of rapid transition away from fossil fuels this emergency demands. Indeed, in its first six months, your administration has taken several steps to continue advancing fossil fuel extraction and use. These include:
• Continuing to approve fracking and drilling permits on federal lands, despite your campaign pledge to ban new oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters;
• Supporting multiple tar sands oil and oil pipelines, including the Dakota Access and Enbridge Line 3 pipelines, despite your power to halt both of these climate-destructive projects;
• Appealing a court order in order to allow fracking in Ohio's Wayne National Forest;
• Advancing a proposal for oil and gas exploration near Dinosaur National Monument in eastern Utah and in the Gulf of Mexico;
• Backing a Trump-era oil project in Alaska that will produce over 100,000 barrels of oil a day for 30 years;
• Supporting public subsidies for fossil fuels through fossil hydrogen, CCS and LNG exports;
• Pressuring OPEC to boost oil production;
• Backing offset schemes that would allow the fossil fuel industry to justify continuing emissions because of claimed emissions reductions elsewhere in the economy.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has declared the newest findings of the recent IPCC report a code red for humanity. We urge you to convene world leaders around a shared vision for moving humanity off fossil fuels and avoiding carbon offset schemes and fossil-fuel industry delay tactics.
Our chances for avoiding irreversible and uncontrollable climate chaos diminish daily. We implore you, on behalf of and for the love of all life on Earth, to respond to the greatest threat ever to face our species and lead the transition away from fossil fuels that humanity desperately needs.
Sincerely,
Scientists joining this letter do so in their individual capacities and not on behalf of the institutions with which they are affiliated.
Initial Signatories
Peter Kalmus, PhD Climate Scientist
UCLA Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering Sandra Steingraber, PhD
Senior Scientist, Science and Environmental Health Network Co-founder, Concerned Health Professionals of New York
Robert Bullard, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy, Texas Southern University
Director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice
Robert W. Howarth, PhD
David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology Cornell University
Mark Z. Jacobson, PhD
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Director, Atmosphere/Energy Program
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy
Co-Founder, The Solutions Project, 100.org, and the 100% Clean, Renewable Energy Movement
Michael E. Mann, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science Pennsylvania State University
Aradhna Tripati, PhD
Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Director, Center for Diverse Leadership in Science University of California, Los Angeles
Additional 331 Signatories
Cynthia Alff-Steinberger, PhD University of Geneva
Elan R. Alford, PhD
Conservation Fellow, Mt. Cuba Center
Lauren Alteio, PhD Postdoctoral Scientist
Rebecca Altman, PhD
Science and Environmental Health Network
Amanda Alva, MS
Graduate Student Researcher, Auburn University
Jonathan G. Andelson, PhD Rosenfield Professor of Social Science, Grinnell College
Vanessa Anderson, BS
University of Texas at Austin, Chemical
Engineering Student
Tyler Anthony, PhD
Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley Lillian Aoki, PhD
Research Scientist, University of Oregon
Christina Aragon, PhD
Graduate Research Assistant, Oregon State
University
Heidi Arjes, PhD
Research Scientist, Stanford University
Auma Arunachala, PhD
Retired, Charles University Medical Faculty
Jeanie Anderson, BS Systems Analyst
Jessica Balerna, PhD Candidate University of South Florida
Geert Barentsen, PhD
Research Scientist, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute
Kathy Barker, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Mathew Barlow, PhD
Professor of Climate Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Phoebe Barnard, PhD
Professor, University of Washington and
CEO, Stable Planet Alliance
Rebecca Barnes, PhD
Associate Professor, Colorado College
J. Jotautas Baronas, PhD
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Institut de
Physique du Globe de Paris
Jennifer Barr, PhD
Scientific Editor and Writing Consultant
Samuel Bartušek, PhD Student Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Ethan Bass, PhD Candidate
Cornell University, Department of Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology
Franz Baumann, PhD New York University
Russell Benedict, PhD
Professor of Biology, Central College
Kyla Bennett, PhD Science Policy Director
Brandon Benton, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
Melissa Berke, PhD Associate Professor of Geology
Miranda Bernard, PhD Postdoc, Duke University
Neil P. Bernstein, PhD Professor Emeritus Mount Mercy University, Adjunct Professor University of Iowa
Diana Bernstein, PhD
Assistant Research Professor, University of Southern Mississippi
Robert L. Beschta, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Forest
Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State
University
Nicole Betz, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Eugene Bible, BS Engineer
Andrea Bixler, PhD Professor, Clarke University
Amy C. Blair, PhD
Professor of Biology, St. Ambrose
University
Richard Bold, BS Geologist
Gregory Brabeck, PhD
Research Scientist, Bruker Daltonics
Renato K. Braghiere, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, NASA Jet
Propulsion Laboratory
Jay Brett, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
Claire V. Broome, MD Adjunct Professor Public Health
Nathan Brown, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Texas
Steffen P. Buessecker, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar
Garry R. Buettner, PhD
Professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Kate Bulinski, PhD
Associate Professor of Environmental
Studies
Joy Buongiorno, PhD
Assistant Professor of Environmental
Biology
Roland Burgmann, PhD
Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Michael W. Busch, PhD Research Scientist, SETI Institute
Seth M. Bushinsky, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Hawai'i at
Mänoa
Ryan Caldwell, BS Research Assistant, JAX
Fred J. Caleflll, PhD
Science Systems Engineer/Geologist
David G. Campbell, PhD
Professor of Biology, Grinnell College
Jennifer Campbell, PhD Medical Science Liaison
Frank Cappuccio, PhD Lecturer, Research Associate
Gregory R. Carmichael, PhD Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Iowa
Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, PhD Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
C. Cecale, PhD Assistant Professor
Angela M. Cecil, PhD Professor
F. Stuart Chapin III, PhD
Retired Professor, University of Alaska
Fairbanks
Digant Chavda, MS Graduate Student
Holly Childs, MS
Process Development Specialist, 3M, Retired
Saphira Chiu, MS University of Louisville
John Erich Christian, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of
Technology
James Alexander Clark, PhD Computational Scientist, California Institute of Technology & Georgia Institute of Technology
Kim Cobb, PhD Professor
Shane Coffield, MS
Graduate Student Researcher, UC Irvine
Anne C. Cohen, PhD
Retired Research Professor, UCLA
Sarah Cohen, PhD
Professor, San Francisco State University
Kimberly Colgan, PhD Candidate Doctoral Candidate, University of Minnesota
Larry Collins, PhD Assistant Professor, Biology
Steven Colome, ScD
Hearing Board Officer, Santa Barbara Air Pollution Control District
Susan G. Conard, PhD
Affiliate Faculty, George Mason University
Jennifer Cotton, PhD
Associate Professor, California State
University Northridge
Madeleine Cule, PhD Data Scientist
Calum Cunningham, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher
Jade D' Alpoim Guedes, PhD Associate Professor
Matthew A. d'Alessio, PhD Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, California State University Northridge
Jason H. Davison, PhD
Assistant Professor, Catholic University of
America
Denise Deckert, PhD Technical Information Specialist
Dominick DellaSala, PhD Chief Scientist, Wild Heritage
Michael Dettinger, PhD Climate Researcher
Peter W. Deutsch, PhD
Retired Faculty, Penn State University
John Doherty, PhD
Research Assistant, University of Hong Kong
Christy Dolph, PhD
Research Scientist, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, University of Minnesota
Henri Drake, PhD
NOAA Climate & Global Change
Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University
Brandon Dunnahoo, MS Student Graduate Teaching Assistant, Arkansas State University
Vincent M. Eckhart, PhD
Professor of Biology, Grinnell College
Larry Edwards, BS Consultant
Laura Eierman, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, SUNY Cortland
Kassandra Einfelt, MA Associate Professor
David Eisenman, MD
Professor of Medicine and Public Health
Cassady Ells, BS
Water Quality Technician
Alyssa Endrich, MS
Head Graduate Teaching Assistant
Kamyar Enshayan, PhD Director, Center for Energy & Environmental Education, University of Northern Iowa
Lisa Falk, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor
Colette Feehan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Montclair State
University
Bill Field, PhD Professor of Public Health
Jonathan Fielding, MD
Founder and Co-Director, UCLA Center for
Healthy Climate Solutions
Mary Finley-Brook, PhD Associate Professor, University of Richmond
Seth Finnegan, PhD
Associate Professor, University of
California, Berkeley
John Fleming, PhD
Senior Scientist, Climate Law Institute, Center for Biological Diversity
Jennifer Fletcher, PhD Senior Research Scientist, Centre for Climate and Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds
Brittany Flokstra, PhD Instructor
Nicholas N. Foster, PhD Project Scientist, UCLA
Andrew Fraass, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Victoria, Canada
Alexa Fredston, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate, Rutgers University Holli Frey, PhD
Professor and Department Chair, Union College
Leanne Friedrich, PhD
Materials Scientist, National Institute of
Standards and Technology
Dargan M. W. Frierson, PhD
Associate Professor, Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Washington
Laurence Fuortes, MD
Emeritus Professor, Public Health
Tamra L. Gilbertson, PhD
Lecturer, University of Tennessee Sociology
Department
Jennifer B. Glass, PhD Associate Professor
Charles Glatz, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Iowa State University Peter Gleick, PhD
Member, US National Academy of Sciences
Kaylynne Glover, PhD
Doctoral Candidate, Biology, University of
Kentucky
Sagan Goodpaster, MS, PhD Student Graduate Research Assistant, University of Kentucky
Timothy A. Goudge, PhD
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas
at Austin
Steven Green, PhD
Professor, Department of Biology,
University of Iowa
Nan Marie Greer, PhD
Executive Director, Alistar International
Julian Gregg, PhD Instructor
Anshul Gupta, PhD
Principal Research Staff Member
William J. Gutowski, Jr., PhD Professor of Meteorology
Sandra Haggard, MS, ABD Associate Professor Biology
Steven Hall, PhD
Associate Professor, Iowa State University
Leigh Anne Harden, PhD Biology Professor
Umesh Haritashya, PhD Professor, University of Dayton
Victoria Harris, MS
PhD Student, University of Iowa
Justin Hart, MS
Policy Advisor, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
Charles Heck, PhD Independent Scholar
Richard Heermance, PhD Professor, California State University Northridge
Danielle Heichel, PhD Lecturer, Purdue University
Kevin Hennegan, MA
Sr. Regulatory Strategist, Veristat
Kristy L. Henscheid, PhD
Professor of Biology, Columbia Basin
College
Jacob Hileman, PhD Researcher, Uppsala University
Austin Hinkel, PhD Visitor, Colorado College
Harry Hochheiser, PhD Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer L. Hoffman, PhD Professor
Jennifer Holguin, PhD Candidate Research Associate, University of Texas El Paso
Adam Holmes, PhD
Postdoc, Chemistry Department, Virginia Tech
Brian Hornbuckle, PhD Professor, Iowa State University
Jason David Horsman, MS Education Director
Richard A. Houghton, PhD Senior Scientist Emeritus
John V. Hurley, PhD Engineering Geologist, California Environmental Protection Agency
Nyla Husain, PhD
Research Fellow, School for the
Environment, University of Massachusetts,
Boston
Ethan Hyland, PhD Assistant Professor, NCSU
Daniel E. Ibarra, PhD
Assistant Professor, Brown University
Amalia Icreverzi, PhD
Scientist, Seattle Children's Research
Institute
Melissa Ingala, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Anthony Ingraffea, PhD
Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering,
Emeritus
David W. Inouye, PhD Professor Emeritus
Brian Inouye, PhD
Professor, Florida State University
Richard Inouye, PhD Emeritus Professor of Ecology
Rachel Jabaily, PhD
Assistant Professor, Colorado College
Laura Jackson, PhD
Director, Tallgrass Prairie Center and
Professor of Biology
Elin Jacobs, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Peter Jacobson, PhD
Professor of Biology, Grinnell College
Benjamin Johnson, PhD Student Graduate Research Assistant
Daniel Johnson, PhD Assistant Professor
Kathleen R. Johnson, PhD Associate Professor, UC Irvine
Kerri Johnson, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of
California Berkeley
Lucile Jones, PhD
Founder, Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society
Terry Ryan Kane, MS, DVM Veterinary Ecologist
Lauren Kashiwabara, MS
Graduate Student, University of the Pacific
Sarah C. Kavassalis, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Harvey Mudd College
Stephanie Jo Kent, PhD
Visiting Lecturer, Framingham State
University
Brent Kim, MHS
Research Program Manager, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Tom Kimmerer, PhD Consultant
Sarah Kingston, PhD Glenn Jaecks, PhD Research Affiliate
Professor, American River College
Kay Kirkpatrick, PhD Jessie Jaeger, MPH Associate Professor of Physics and
Analyst, PSE Healthy Energy Mathematics, University of Illinois
Benjamin Johnson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
David Klein, PhD
Professor of Mathematics, California State University Northridge
Robert R. Klepper, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Chemistry, Iowa Lakes
Community College
Jasper Kok, PhD
Professor, University of California Los Angeles
Jennifer Krauel, PhD Adjunct Assistant Professor
Arati Kreibich, PhD Activist
Meade Krosby, PhD
Senior Scientist, University of Washington
Charles Küster, MS
Research Meteorologist, University of
Oklahoma
Philip J. Landrigan, MD Professor, Dircetor, Program for Global Public Health & The Common Good, Boston College
Sarah Lang, PhD Student
University of Rhode Island Graduate School
of Oceanography
Brooke Lappe, MPH, PhD Student Policy Advisor at Science for Georgia
Isaac Larkin, PhD
Julie Libarkin, PhD
Professor, Michigan State University
Isaac H. Lichter Marek, PhD Post Doctoral Researcher, Dept. of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Los Angeles
Deirdre Lockwood, PhD
Science Writer, University of Washington
Shane Loeffler, MS
Polar Geospatial Center, University of
Minnesota
Dave Love, PhD
Associate Scientist, Johns Hopkins University
Henry S. Lowendorf, PhD
Chair, Greater New Haven Peace Council
Whitney Lucas Molitor, PhD Assistant Professor
J. Elizabeth Maas, MS Associate Professor
Mark Madsen, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Radiology
Neil Maizlish, PhD Epidemiologist
Scott A Mandia, MS
Assistant Chair, Professor of Physical
Sciences
Postdoctoral Scientist Julio C. Mandojana, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Dennis Lavrov, PhD
Professor, Iowa State University Kyle Manley, PhD
Graduate Student Researcher, UC Irvine
Kevin Leecaster, MS
Calvin Cycle Farms Biochar Carbon
Sequestration Project Manager
Brendan Mapes, MA
Research Associate, UNC-Chapel Hill
Department of Public Policy
Elise Mason, MS
Project Specialist, The Coastal
Society/National Center for Atmospheric
Research
Mike Matessa, PhD
Cognitive Scientist, Collins Aerospace
Colleen E. McLean, PhD
Associate Professor, Youngstown State
University
Nathan R. Meeks, MS Chemist
Paulina Mena, PhD Associate Professor of Biology
Scott Mermelstein, BA Geotechnical Engineer
Laura C. Merrick, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor (retired),
Agronomy Department, Iowa State
University
James D. Metzger, PhD
Emeritus Professor, Ohio State University
Madison Miketa, PhD
Wildlife Scientist, Humane Society
International
Janet Miller, PhD
Retired from Harvard Medical School
Alfonso Minervino, PhD Senior Quality Engineer
Jamie Mitchem, PhD Professor of Geography
Jessie Moore Torres, MS
Ocean Scientist, GST, Inc/NOAA
Vernon Morris, PhD Professor
Ali Moss, MS
Graduate Researcher, University of Georgia
Stephen Mulkey, PhD Lecturer, University of Florida
Chris Mutel, PhD
Senior Scientist, Paul Scherrer Institute
Sarah E. Myhre, PhD C02 Foundation
Ted Neal, PhD
Clinical Professor, University of Iowa
Robert Newman, PhD
Professor, Biology University of North
Dakota
Peter Nightingale, PhD
Professor of Physics, University of Rhode
Island
Marit Nilsen-Hamilton, PhD Professor
Philip Nyhus, PhD
Professor of Environmental Studies, Colby College
Danielle Oberg, PhD
Graduate Research Assistant, University of Arkansas
Suzanne O'Connell, PhD Professor, Wesleyan University
James Odling, MS Hazardous Materials Specialist
M. N. O'Donnell, MS Data Services Librarian
Joseph D. Ortiz, PhD
Professor, Dept of Geology, Kent State
University
Patrick O'Shaughnessy, PhD Professor
Bryandra Owen, BA
Archaeologist/Knight & Leavitt Associates
V. Margot Paez, PhD
Graduate Research Associate, Georgia
Institute of Technology
Elise Paietta, PhD Biology PhD Student
Hilary Palevsky, PhD Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College
Ingrid Paredes, PhD
Visiting Industry Assistant Professor, New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Casey Patnode, MD, MPH Medical and Public Health Student
Ryan Pavlick, PhD Earth Scientist
Lea Payette, BS
University of Minnesota Twin Cities Robin Pelc, PhD
Faculty, California State University Monterey Bay
David Pengelley, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Mathematics, New
Mexico State University
Frederica Perera, PhD
Professor, Columbia University Mailman
School of Public Health
Joy B. Perry, MS
Senior Lecturer of Biological Sciences, Emerita
Gavin Perry, PhD
Retired from Washington University, St. Louis
Reuben J. Peters, PhD
Roy J. Carver Distinguished Professor of
Biochemistry, Iowa State University
Nathan G. Phillips, PhD Professor, Boston University
Steven Piantadosi, PhD Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
Pierre Pica, PhD Professor
Tamara Pico, PhD Assistant Professor
Jennifer Pope, BS Lab Technician, CCC
Stacy Porter, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor, Wittenberg University
Carol Pride, PhD Professor
James W. Raich, PhD Professor
Christine Rains, MS Consultant to NASA
Lon Reed, BS Environmental Scientist
William Ripple, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Oregon State
University
Larry W. Robertson, PhD
Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa
Jennifer Robinson, MD Professor
Sara Robles, MS Student Laboratory Technician
Nilda E. Rodriguez, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Northern
Iowa
Richard M. Rollins, MS
Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical
Engineer
Terry L. Root, PhD
Professor Emerita, Stanford University James Roth, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Iowa State University
Benjamin Runkle, PhD Associate Professor, Biological & Agricultural Engineering, University of Arkansas
Avery Russell, PhD
Assistant Professor, Missouri State
University
Philip B. Russell, PhD
Senior Scientist, NASA, Retired
Melanie Sadeghpour, MS
Program Chair, Environmental Science,
DMACC
Sarah Safaie, MA Independent Researcher
Ted Schettler, MD
Science Director; Science and
Environmental Health Network
Kathleen Schiro, PhD
Assistant Professor of Environmental
Sciences, University of Virginia
Jill E. Schneider, PhD Professor of Biological Sciences
Joseph Schreiber, PhD Professor, Chatham University
Joshua Schwartz, PhD Professor
Silvia Secchi, PhD Professor, University of Iowa
Ulli Seibt, PhD
Associate Professor, UCLA
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Professor, Iowa State University
Drew Shindell, PhD
Nicholas Professor, Duke University
Zoe I. Shribman, MS Research Assistant, LSU
Pnya Shukla, PhD
PhD Candidate, Bodega Marine Laboratory, UC Davis
William Simpkins, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Hydrogeology, Iowa
State University
Chelsea Skojec, PhD
Graduate Student, University of Florida
Ceal Smith, MS
Research & Policy Analyst, Alaska Institute for Climate & Energy (ALICE)
Joshua Smith, PhD
Professor of Chemistry, Humboldt State University
Daryl Smith, PhD
Professor Emeritus, University of Northern Iowa, Biology Dept. and Tallgrass Prairie Center
Richard C. J. Somerville, PhD Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
Kelly Speer, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Museum of Natural History
Robert Speiser, PhD Professor Emeritus
Muhammad Spocter, PhD Associate Professor of Anatomy
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Greg Spooner, PhD CEO/o wner
Doreen Stabinsky, PhD Professor
Holly Stahl, MPS University of Miami, Florida
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Andrew Sullivan, MS
Research Associate, Torus Biosystems
Benjamin Swanson, PhD Lecturer, University of Iowa
Rachel Swanson, PHD Graduate Student
Margaret Swift, PhD Student Duke University
Eugene S. Takle, PhD Professor Emeritus
Craig Tepper, PhD Professor, Cornell College
Pramisha Thapaliya, MS Graduate Research Assistant
Diane Thompson, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
Jenna Tipaldo, PhD Student PhD Student and Adjunct, CUNY
Sarah Toth, PhD
Associate, Rocky Mountain Institute
Daniel Townsend, MA
Retired Environmental Geologist
Lucky Tran, PhD March for Science
Elizabeth E. Trimmer, PhD
Professor and Chair of Chemistry, Grinnell
College
Gareth Trubl, PhD
Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Lab
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Project Scientist, UCLA School of Medicine
Sarah Turtle, PhD
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
University of Washington, Seattle
Vincent Valbuena, MS
Chemical Engineering Student at Purdue
University
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Futurist Activist/Artist & 2019 UC Irvine Engineering Hall of Fame for S.T.E.A.M Equity & Justice
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Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley
National Lab
Steve Voelker, PhD Associate Professor
Amy Wagenfeld, PhD Lecturer, Boston University
Kristina Walkup, PhD Professor
Yu Wang, PhD
Associate Professor, Iowa State University
John Wares, PhD
Professor, University of Georgia
Paul Weihe, PhD
Jane Willenbring, PhD
Associate Professor, Stanford University
Shaye Wolf, PhD
Climate Science Director, Center for Biological Diversity
Bill Wong, PhD
Adjunct Instructor, Stanbridge University
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Science Communicator, EcoTok
Stu Woodward, MS Science Educator
Emma Woolbright, MS Project Manager, University
Anna Word, PhD Student Johns Hopkins University
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Professor, Oregon State University
Parsa Zareiesfandabadi, PhD Department of Biology
Associate Professor of Biology and liana Zeitzer, PhD Student
Environmental Science, Central College State University of New Yok
Anna M. Weiss, PhD
Assistant Professor, Midwestern State
University
Michael Welsh, MD Professor University of Iowa
Paul H. Wermer, PhD Retired
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Paul Wilcox, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher