Contextualizing Climate Change: Linking Science and Culture

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Dr. Keith Peterman is a professor emeritus at York College of Pennsylvania. In addition to serving as a member of the ACS Committee on Environmental Improvement he has served as a Fulbright Scholar in Germany and in Russia a National Academy of Sciences Research Scholar in Poland a Research Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. and as a visiting professor in China and New Zealand. He takes student groups to Costa Rica each year to investigate climate change issues linked to impacts adaptation and mitigation. He participates in the United Nations climate conferences as an accredited member of the press. He is a 2020 recipient of the ACS CEI Award for Incorporating Sustainability into Chemistry Education. Matt Cordes is the founder and principal writer at WritingWorks. Since 2005 he has worked with more than 500 commercial and nonprofit clients across the U.S. to provide writing research and business development consulting. With several clients working in the renewable energy space (primarily solar photovoltaics and circular economic development) Matt focuses on topics of climate and energy in many of his writing efforts. He has participated in four United Nations climate conferences and written extensively on the topic of climate change.