As the new contributing author on Climate of Our Future, I’d like to give you some background on my field of expertise and interests. I’m a limnologist. No, that isn’t someone who studies limbs. It comes from a Greek word limnos, which means fresh water. In my role as senior scientist with an environmental consulting firm, I study fresh water (e.g., lakes, rivers, ponds), and everything that’s in it, around it and affects it. I work with industry and government to solve environmental problems th