Core Samples

A Climate Scientist's Experiments in Politics and Motherhood

Anna Farro Henderson

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University of Minnesota Press
29 January 2025

Memoirs; Science: general issues; Meteorology & climatology

People live by their stories

how can we use them to accelerate action on climate change?

Climate scientist and policy expert Anna Farro Henderson embarks on a remarkable narrative journey in Core Samples, exploring how science is done, discussed, legislated, and imagined. Through stories both raucous and poignant

of far-flung expeditions, finding artistic inspiration in research, and traversing the systemic barriers women and mothers face in science and politics

she brings readers into the daily rhythms and intimacies of scientific research and political negotiation.

Grounded in her experiences as a climate scientist, an environmental policy advisor to Minnesota Senator Al Franken and Governor Mark Dayton, and a constant juggler of the many roles and responsibilities of professional moms, Henderson's eclectic, unconventional essays range from observations, confessions, and meditations on lab and fieldwork to a packing list for a trip to the State Capitol and a lactation diary. Readers are invited on voyages as far afield as the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico, the Juneau Icefield in Alaska, and a meteor crater in Ghana

and as close to home as a town hall meeting in America's corn belt.

A love letter to science and a bracing (and sometimes hilarious) portrait of the many obstacles women, mothers, and people digging for truth navigate, Core Samples illuminates the messy, contradictory humanity of our scientific and political institutions. Bringing us behind the closed doors of discovery and debate, Henderson exposes the flaws in research institutions, the halls of government, and the role of science in policy, yet she shows how each crack is also an invitation for camaraderie, creativity, and change.

By: Anna Farro Henderson
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 255g
ISBN: 9781517916046
ISBN 10: 1517916046
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 29 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anna Farro Henderson is an award-winning writer, PhD scientist, and environmental policy expert. She is a fellow at the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, teaches at the Loft Literary Center, and works in climate advocacy. She lives with her family in St. Paul, where she makes daily visits to the Mississippi River.

Reviews for Core Samples: A Climate Scientist's Experiments in Politics and Motherhood

""Anna Farro Henderson’s Core Samples ought to be required reading for anyone interested in a career in the sciences. Honest and immersive, this book offers a behind-the-scenes look at how culture (and who crafts it) shapes everything from the sediment the narrator studies to the policies that define climate action today.""-Elizabeth Rush, author of The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth ""This is a remarkably honest book-and therefore funny, moving, and eminently worth reading. Anna Farro Henderson’s deep encounters with Big Science and Big Bureaucracy will help you understand why progress on matters of life and death can be so maddeningly slow; her encounters with herself may help you figure out how to live your own life.""-Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature ""With fierce intelligence and wild exuberance, Anna Farro Henderson throws herself headlong into the biggest challenges of our time: how to love fully, create abundantly, and stop the ruin of the precious ecosystems that sustain us. Let her gorgeous essays teach you how to bring to the table every self you’ve got (even the ones you haven’t dreamed up yet) and activate the vital energies we need to fight for the places we call home.""-Lia Purpura, author of All the Fierce Tethers ""A lively and accessible narrative about finding a balance between convictions and love.""-Kirkus Reviews ""This book is for people who traverse seamlessly between spaces, whose identities do not fit in a box, and who can simultaneously play insiders and outsiders.""-Science Magazine ""In essays that are playful, intelligent, and full of heart, Anna Farro Henderson’s Core Samples: A Climate Scientist’s Experiments in Politics and Motherhood does the important work of putting science, climate change, and politics into real life and human bodies""-Brevity Blog ""Some books are so good I want to shout about them to the rooftops. [Core Samples], the new essay collection by Anna Farro Henderson is one of those shout-able titles.""-Dayton Daily News ""Through memoir, Henderson makes the climate crisis approachable, framing our interaction with the Earth’s systems as a relationship, an ongoing story.""-New Ohio Review