This year's lecture, “Curating a Robust Scientific Record in a Challenging World," will be given by Holden Thorp, Editor-in-Chief of the Science family of journals. 

The talk will focus on the current environment for weather and climate research, and how the current situation developed in terms of both political and public skepticism and the dynamics inside the research community.  Top findings from the last couple of years reported in Science will be discussed. Finally, ideas will be discussed for ensuring a continued, healthy pace of scientific progress and greater public acceptance.

About the Lecture Series

This lecture series is in memory of Dr. James (Jim) Richard Mahoney who passed away in September 2015. The Annual Lecture has been initiated by a group of his former colleagues and will be conducted in cooperation with the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), two organizations pivotal to Jim’s professional career. The Annual Lecture will honor Jim’s memory in perpetuity by featuring an annual lecture by a distinguished speaker on a relevant environmental science and/or policy issue of the day.