climatologists

Describes the skills necessary to pursue a career as a climate scientist, and examines the type of work they do.

Provides biographical profiles of more than one hundred male and female scientists, from antiquity to the present, whose work has contributed to the study of weather and climate and impacted society in lasting ways.

Profiles the life and career of climate scientist Inez Fung, and chronicles her childhood in Hong Kong, education and study in America, and her work on weather patterns.

Discusses the study of climates and how they change due to deforestation, pollution, eruptions, and natural patterns, and covers oceanographers and meteorologists and measuring devices such as thermometers, anemometers, and satellites, and the use of fossils and samples to look into the past.