Portfolio: Richard B. (Ricky) Rood
This portfolio provides examples of publications of different types.
Short Stories
- Relics, Faultline: The troubling thoughts that come when buzzards make a home on the roof of your house.
- The Keeper, Foreign Service Journal: The efforts of a former Foreign Service officer to save an old farm on Maryland’s Eastern Shore from development.
- John McLean, Current: A memory piece of driving through North Carolina in the 1960s finding the places that will serve lunch to a Black man.
Memoir & Reflection
- Christmas at the 7-Eleven, Bay Weekly: Christmas morning at a small town 7-Eleven
- The Cape Anne Pig and Me, Bay Weekly: How to cook a whole pig on a moments notice. Or are North Carolinians required to know how to make BBQ?
- My Father’s Tomatoes, Bay Weekly: A memory piece on growing tomatoes and the joy that fresh tomatoes bring to people.
Essay and Analysis (Climate and Weather)
- How fast can we stop Earth from warming?, The Conversation
- After a summer of weather horrors, adapting to climate change is an imperative, The Washington Post
- To be best in weather forecasting, The Washington Post
Climate Blue (Column at Michigan Today)
- Confronting our invisible enemies: The challenges of using model-based knowledge to address emerging societal challenges such as pandemics and climate change
- Will the Earth be habitable in 2100? A response to a reader’s question about whether the Earth will be habitable in 2100 – with respect to our climate, yes – but it will be fraught with challenges.
- Anticipation, reaction, or something in between? Why do we always pose problems and solutions as this versus that? That is a political argument, sometimes advocacy, but it is not problem solving.
- Hurricane Dorian and the Bahama Islands: We often hear the climate change will make hurricanes “stronger.” A warming world will have many influences on, for example, hurricanes. There is no one thing that climate change “does.”
Lectures
- Gaining Control of the Challenges of Climate Change (20220418 National Science Foundation): This talk was given as part of the 2022 Earth Day Celebration at the National Science Foundation.
- A Nobel Physics Prize for Climate Science: This talk was given as the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan.
- Adaptation: We Must Think Beyond Just Building Back Better (20211005 Biennale di Venezia): This talk was given at the 2021 Biennale di Venezia.
Academic Papers
- A near complete library of my academic papers are found in my author’s personal library.