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Dr. Jane Lubchenco (born December 4, 1947) is a Ukrainian-American environmental scientist and marine ecologist.
Read More at Wikipedia ›WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named Harvard physicist John Holdren and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco to top science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science.
Both Holdren and Lubchenco are leading experts on climate change who have advocated forceful government response. Holdren will become Obama's science adviser as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Lubchenco will lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , which oversees ocean and atmospheric studies and does much of the government's research on global warming.Holdren also will direct the president's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. Joining him as co-chairs will be Nobel Prize-winning scientist Harold Varmus, a former director of the National Institutes of Health , and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Eric Lander, a specialist in human geno...WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says water tests have confirmed underwater oil plumes from the BP oil spill, but that concentrations are "very low."NOAA Administrat...
A top government scientist says the impact of the Gulf oil spill on wildlife is likely to linger for decades.Jane Lubchenco , head of the National Oceanic and Atmosp...
The largest ecological disaster in U.S. history has largely been taken care of, the government claims. Many scientists aren't so sure, however.In a five-page report,...
America smashed the record for billion-dollar weather disasters this year with a deadly dozen — and counting.With an almost biblical onslaught of twisters, floods, s...
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate, which has drawn concern among many scientists in ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issues its 2010 hurricane season forecast, predicting one of the strongest seasons on record -- and reiter...
With a startling report that some researchers call more spin than science, the government said Wednesday that the mess made by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico...
A 22-mile-long invisible mist of oil is meandering far below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico , where it will probably loiter for months or more, scientists reporte...
Calling it "a matter of public safety" and "national significance," the nation's top official in charge of forecasting hurricanes and tornadoes in the United States ...
Scientists judge the overall health of the Gulf of Mexico as nearly back to normal one year after the BP oil spill, but with glaring blemishes that restrain their op...
Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degr...
Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a scientist's video and slides that demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hope...
Richard Knabb, the tropical weather expert at The Weather Channel, will be the next chief of the U.S. government's hurricane forecasting hub in Florida, federal offi...
Party boats. Magicians. Federal agency rivals the GSA for disregard for taxpayer money
The following is a transcript of President-elect Barack Obama's weekly radio address :PRESIDENT-ELECT: Over the past few weeks, Vice President-Elect Biden and I have...
With a startling report that some researchers call more spin than science, the government said Wednesday that the mess made by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico...
Federal officials predicted Friday that most Gulf Coast beaches have seen their last major oiling from the BP spill, and South Florida and the East Coast should be s...
The Obama administration says the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico no longer poses a threat to the Florida Keys or the East Coast.A new federal report indicates that ...
"Leadership for the Arctic" was the focus of a two-day conference at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT, April 12-13. The event—held on the eve of the 10...
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