VoA

Ok. I just did the VoA interview on China's drought and thank goodness they are editing it! It will be aired sometime in the next week or so. I'll send you a link when I have it.

Public science

Somehow things all happen at once. I took a workshop this week on writing OpEds to get more women's voices in the public debate in America (fabulous workshop, I highly recommend it... it's run by The OpEd Project (http://theopedproject.org). They have public workshops and you should definitely attend... if you're a woman). Then I wrote an OpEd (not published yet) on China's erosion management in light of current flooding. Today my agreement with the NY Times finally came through to blog for them at their Scientist at Work Blog while I'm in China this summer (scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com). More details when that actually happens, but tentatively it will be 2-3 posts/week for 3 of the weeks that I'm in the field. Then Voice of America contacted me to be interviewed for the show tonight. So I'll be on VOA tonight talking about the drought in China. Exciting! I'll post a link as soon as I get one. It's the Chinese/English program.

I have mixed feelings about being a scientist in the public eye, but I think that if I can encourage young women to continue with science, it can't be a bad thing.

-- Dr. JZG