Today’s students will have to live with the impacts of global warming. So in Portland Oregon, public school students learn about the causes, consequences, and possible solutions. Last spring, the Portland Public School Board unanimously voted to develop a climate education strategy. The plan is to teach students the information they need and provide tools […]
Author Archives: David Appell
A regular contributor to Yale Climate Connections since 2012, David Appell, Ph.D., is a freelance writer living in Salem, Oregon, specializing in the physical sciences, technology, and the environment.
His work has appeared in Scientific American, Physics World, Audubon, New Scientist, Wired, Salon, Popular Science, Nature, Discover, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, Physical Review Focus, Discovery Channel Online, Science, and many other publications, and on the syndicated radio program The Weather Notebook .
David has a B.S. in mathematics and physics from the University of New Mexico, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He's also done graduate work in the creative writing department at Arizona State University.
David's had "a fiction writing phase or two," he says, with short stories appearing in The Seattle Review, Sycamore Review, Hawaii Review, and other publications.