Summary: Randy Olson was a professor of marine biology at the University of New Hampshire. Despite his Harvard Ph.D., four years of post-doctoral research in Australia and Florida, and years of diving around the world from the Great Barrier Reef to Antarctica, he tossed it all in, resigned from his tenured professorship and moved to Hollywood to explore film as a medium for communicating science. His films include Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus and Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy. Today he is an independent filmmaker and author of the book Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style. Olson visited NCTC to screen his film Sizzle and to teach in the NCTC Course "Resource Management Implications of Global Climate Change." Olson discusses with Mark Madison the role of communication in climate change and the ways we can all better communicate science to the broader public.
