Melding Science and Diplomacy to Run a Global Climate Review
More than a few scientists think that Susan Solomon must be a glutton for punishment.
Who in her right mind would want to detour from doing world-class atmospheric research at a laboratory tucked under the Rockies to be a co-leader of a years-long, largely administrative review by hundreds of experts from dozens of countries of existing studies on the atmosphere? Dr. Solomon, who won a National Medal of Science in 1999 for linking synthetic chemicals to the seasonal ozone hole over Antarctica, nonetheless chose that course in 2002.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/science/earth/06profile.html?ref=environment