Innovation. Exploration. Archaeology.
Science at the edges.
All photography provided by Brian Buma unless otherwise noted.
I direct the Climate Innovation program at the Environmental Defense Fund as a Senior Climate Scientist. Prior, I was tenured faculty at the University of Colorado in Denver and before that, at the University of Alaska. This is my personal page - for EDF related Innovation science, where we push the boundaries of what can be seen, quantified, and accomplished, just get in touch.
Blowndown, logged, and burned forest in Colorado
Waters off north Greenland - galaxies of ice, breaking up in the warmer waters of climate change
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Close-up of original 1916 map used by William Cooper for his pioneering work in Glacier Bay (updated in the 1920's with new numbers and datapoints).
The southernmost human artifact ever found. Isla Hornos, Chile.
Transportation in Alaska when finding the world’s oldest ecological plots
For speaking engagements, including talks on the science of ecosystem change, expeditionary science, or communicating exploration to the public, please email Brian Buma. brianbuma@gmail.com
The northernmost land on earth - the view starts looking out north, across the polar sea towards the north pole. The mountains to the south are the H.H. Benedicts, the northernmost mountains on earth. It is midnight, and totally silent except the wind.