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Engaging Scientist in the Public Discourse

Source: picture was taken after the interview with my phone          William Armstrong is an Earth Scientist who studies glaciology and is a new member to the App State team when he joined back in the fall of 2017. He received his PhD in Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder and BS of environmental Geoscience at the Boston College.          So before going into this interview we first read one of Dr. Armstrong’s publications, “Spatial Patterns of Summer Speedup on South Central Alaska Glaciers,” and we went in with general questions on the article and on himself.          We first asked how he would describe his own article to someone without a science background. His answer was very interesting, instead of spitting out more confusion, he really reached to explain it to us as a true educator. He began by explaining that glaciers move in two different ways, the first is by flowing with a thick fluid and the second is by sliding and or slipping on top of th