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Read my work in Scientific American

Eyes Wide Shut: Earth's Vital Signs Soon to go Unmeasured as Satellites Fail
NASA's fleet of Earth Observing System orbiters is on borrowed time due to a lack of planning and underfunding
By Lisa Palmer

Satellites aren't built to last forever, so it's not a big surprise that the third and last laser on NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) quit working on October 11, outlasting its designed mission length by three and a half years. Since its launch in 2003 ICESat has been a critical instrument for continuously monitoring how much ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland are contributing to the rise of the world's oceans and how much the swath of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is thinning--both of which are occurring faster than projected. The loss of ICESat, however, is a signal of what the future holds for NASA's ailing Earth Observing System (EOS), which is dying just as fast as it is most needed to inform decisions and policy on climate change. [Complete story available online]

In U.S. News & World Report
The Next Jobs Push
By Lisa Palmer

Obama unveils a three-part plan for stimulating more jobs--to mixed reviews

A year ago, Americans were losing their jobs at a rate of 700,000 per month. Now, even as that rate has dropped to 135,000 per month, the ranks of unemployed workers still top 11 million.
[Read complete article in U.S. News & World Report's U.S. Weekly]

Green Jobs Guide
Lisa Palmer recently launched her latest project: The Green Jobs Guide, a project of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland. The Green Jobs Guide is "wiki-community" that serves as a resource hub to inform and connect professional journalists, bloggers, and citizen journalists who cover some aspect of the green economy.
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Hello there.                                 

I am Lisa Palmer, an award winning writer, editor, and high energy person. I specialize in business, environmental, and lifestyle journalism, including feature stories, profiles, narratives, book reviews, and service-oriented articles.

I've posted a few clips and a little information about my background. I am a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the Society of Environmental Journalists.

My writing appears in national magazines, newspapers and online media, including The Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media, Popular Mechanics, Fortune Small Business, Yankee Magazine, Law & Politics, Super Lawyers, Coastal Living, Scholastic, Youth Today, The Providence Journal, and Rhode Island Monthly, among many others. Go here  for a complete list of publishing credits.


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