Naomi Oreskes

professor, history, UC San Diego

Naomi Oreskes (Ph.D., Stanford, 1990) is Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on the historical development of scientific knowledge, methods, and practices in the earth and environmental sciences, and on understanding scientific consensus and dissent. She has held grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society, and is listed in *Who's Who in America* and *Who's Who in Science and Engineering*. Oreskes is the author of *The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science *(1999) and *Objectivity or Heroism: On the Invisibility of Women in Science *(1996), and editor of *Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth* (2001), which was cited by *Library Journal* as one of the best science and technology books of 2002, and by *Choice* as an outstanding academic title of 2003. She is currently completing *Science on a Mission: American Oceanography in the Cold War and Beyond*. Oreskes' most recent work deals with the science of climate change. Her 2004 essay "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change", led to Op-Ed pieces in *the Washington Post*, *the San Francisco Chronicle*, and *the Los Angeles Times*, and has been widely cited in the mass media, including National Public Radio, *The New Yorker*, *USA Today*, *Parade*, as well as in the Royal Society's publication, A Guide to Facts and Fictions About Climate Change, and, most recently, in Al Gore's movie, *An Inconvenient Truth*.