Early in my career, at NASA, I became a manager of organizations that employed scientists and computational specialists. I did not aspire to management. In fact, among my friends, management was looked down upon; it was not "science." My recruitment into management [...]
Uncertainty Introduction (30:34 Minute Lecture, slides, pdf): Science does not produce facts; it produces knowledge with a description of uncertainty. Knowledge is imperfect for many reasons. This lectures describes and categorizes different sources of uncertainty, and introduces how to use different sources [...]
Image: Rood family cabin, intact but moved, on the Neuse River, North Carolina, after Hurricane Florence and before Hurricane Dorian (August 2019). What is its future? This course was designed for the Climate and Space (CLaSP) MEng in Applied Climate. It [...]
The blame game A couple of years ago, I accepted an interview request from a conservative radio host. It was about the time that Drew Gronewold and I were talking about high water levels on the Great Lakes. We maintained a warming [...]
These are the tags used on my OpenClimate Tumblr site. The goal is to capture news cycles and materials relevant to advising, classes, and research. Richard B (Ricky) Rood. Multiple tagged searches syntax: https://openclimate.tumblr.com/search/%23Inquisición+%23EPA and https://openclimate.tumblr.com/search/%23sea-level-rise+%23service My most used resources: Job Finding, [...]
Resistance to change is a natural response. There is a loss of control for both individuals and organizations, which is met by a wide variety of responses. Once it is decided that disruptive change of an organization is needed, it is important [...]