Fresh Air, Paul Mayewski and Sheri S. Tepper

An expert in climate change research, Paul Mayewski and science fiction writer Sheri S. Tepper on this edition of Fresh Air. Paul Mayewski led the National Science Foundation's Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two. The project extracted ice cores chronicling 100,000 years of climate history. Mayewski writes about their expeditions in the new book (which he co-authored with Frank White), The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change. Mayewski is also co-director of the Institute of Quaternary and Climate Studies at the University of Maine. Sheri S. Tepper is the author of over a dozen novels including, The Fresco, The Family Tree, Grass. Her newest novel is The Visitor. (Broadcast Date: April 24, 2002)Want more Fresh Air?

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