Ecosystem Spokesman
On August 15, 1871, Sir Arthur George Tansley, was born. He grew from a field-tripping teenager on school nature outings to become one of England’s activist pioneers in the science of ecology. Following studies in botany, physiology, zoology, and geology at Trinity College, Cambridge,…
Air Apparent
On This Day in 1891, Swedish meteorologist Tor Bergeron was born. Before daily weather balloons, before the phrase air mass, there was the Bergen (Norway) School of Meteorology – a radical place whose principal scientists concerned themselves with predicting, tracking, and mapping large bodies…
