Jamison Hawkins
The People's Republic of Northern Virginia
Skies. Stars. Weather. Questions.
A career that emerged from a meteorological education and damnable, relentless curiosity, I spent 25 years in NOAA, mostly in weather and satellites, retiring in 2004 as the Deputy Director of the National Ocean Service.
We all need to ponder both the "inconceivable nature of nature" and the staggering, avoidable ignorance of far too many influential people.