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he job interviewer
scrutinized the young American geology student sitting across from him. She was
about to graduate from the Royal School of Mines in London, and was trying to
break into a field long unwelcoming to women.
What, he wanted to know, might she have to contribute to the
geology of mining? Naomi Oreskes had a simple answer: “I want to find an ore
deposit!”
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| Naomi Oreskes - a "lightning rod" in a changing climate. |
She wound up in the Australian outback in the early 1980s —
not to search for deposits, exactly, but to help work out the complex geology
of one that had just been found. It would eventually become one of the world’s
largest uranium mines.
Yet, in time, prospecting for ores could not hold her
interest. Today, from a professorship at Harvard University, Dr. Oreskes is
still in the mining business. But rather than digging for minerals, she tunnels
into historical archives, and she is still finding radioactive nuggets.
Read more about what the New
York Times said about the woman who is fast becoming one of the biggest
names in climate science - “Naomi Oreskes, a Lightning Rod in a Changing Climate”.
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