Josh Wurman was chasing a killer tornado across Oklahoma when he realized it was barreling straight for his home – and his family was at home.
Gary Hufford was inspecting a remote spot in Alaska for a weather station when three bears charged him.
Wen-Chau Lee found himself flying through the middle of two of history’s most destructive hurricanes.
Jennifer Katy Hutchings was riding a snowmobile across the lonely pack ice on the Beaufort Sea when the machine crashed through into the ocean.
Storm Scientist is about people who travel to the ends of the earth and the frontiers of knowledge to learn how the world’s weather works. Sometimes their work puts them at great personal risk.
This book – my 14th – gives young readers an inside look at some exciting careers in science.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has proposed a budget-cutting plan that would lop off 30 percent of Ohio public library funding -- twice as much as other state agencies face. This comes on top of a 20 percent cut the libraries already have had to absorb, and it hits them halfway through their annual budget cycle.
"Cuts of this size would be absolutely devastating," said Tim Kambitsch, Executive Director of the Dayton Metro Library. Kambitsch is director of my hometown county library system. More
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