Biosphere 2, 2013
by ST McNeil
Categories: Americas, USA • Tags: astrophotography, Biosphere 2, climate change, gila monster, jungle, science, space
Category Archives: USA
NYTimes publishes border photos
by ST McNeil
Check out photographs from along the U.S./Mexico border on the New York Times’ website. Contributions from myself and colleagues, including an award-winning shot taken by collaborator Murphy Woodhouse. Most of mine are from my Instagram feed, which you can see now on the left-hand side of my blog.
Categories: Americas, Clips, Mexico, USA • Tags: Arizona, iphonography, nogales, NYT, sonora, Tubac
“No One Here in This Room Can Help You”
by ST McNeil
Originally published on Truth-out The US is breaking deportation records, despite cost overruns, judicial inefficiency, due process and human rights violations and a Democrat in the White House. Will four more years of Obama change the immigration system built to jail or deport first, ask questions never? Rivas Aguilar stood in the federal courthouse in Tucson, Arizona, hands and feet shackled to waist, his belt and shoelaces confiscated. “With all due respect, your honor,” he said, “I don’t know where to [...]
Categories: Americas, Clips, Mexico, USA • Tags: border patrol, FAIR, immigration, Operation Streamline, Tucson
Saguaro Symposium speech
by ST McNeil
Adapting to Climate Change: How the Pentagon is preparing to make the Best of the Worst on Prezi This is a transcript of a talk I gave at the first Saguaro Symposium held at the University of Arizona. Adapting to Climate Change: How the Pentagon is preparing for the worst Saguaro Symposium, University of Arizona September 28, 2012 Hello everyone, good afternoon colleagues and friends. My name is Sam McNeil and I am a dual MA candidate in the Middle East and [...]
Categories: Americas, Climate, Research, USA • Tags: climate change, DOD, Institute of the Environment, Pentagon, SERDP, University of Arizona
Adapting to Climate Change: How the Pentagon is preparing to make the best of the worst
by ST McNeil
Below are resources for understanding the Department of Defense’s adaptation to climate change. Adapting to Climate Change: How the Pentagon is preparing to make the best of the worst was the title of a presentation I gave using these resources at the University of Arizona’s 2nd Annual Saguaro Symposium. 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review Executive Order 13514: Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance CNAS’ Promoting Dialogue: Climate Change and America’s Air Force Army’s Net Zero Initiative Navy’s Arctic Roadmap Navy’s [...]
Categories: Americas, Climate, USA • Tags: adaptation, climate change, DOD, mitigation, Pentagon, Saguaro Symposium, University of Arizona
Climate change risks on SW US military bases
by ST McNeil
Last semester, the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) awarded the University of Arizona’s Institute of the Environment a $1.2 million grant to study climate change risks on SW military installations, and this August, the project lead Rafe Sagarin hired me as a research assistant. “This puts us at the ground floor of DOD’s efforts to do something about climate change now,” Sagarin said. “DOD recognizes that climate change is an existential threat to its readiness capabilities, but it [...]
Categories: Americas, Climate, USA • Tags: adaptation, climate change, DOD, mitigation, Pentagon, SERDP
Paradox and Bedrock
by ST McNeil
“No, wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our live as water and good bread.” Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire (1968). I was given a dogged-eared and earthy book days before I boarded a flying metal tube. The skymachine left my bags, the book, seven Chico sticks, and me in another damned desert. From one wasteland to another, the Sonoran to the Jordanian, following fortune, chasing a dream, escaping fate in a [...]
Categories: Americas, Book Reviews, Jordan, Mexico, Middle East, PalestineIsrael, USA • Tags: astrophotography, Desert Solitude, Edward Abbey, Grand Canyon, Mormons, palestine, Utah, Wadi Rum, Zionism
The documentary: Los Deportados
by ST McNeil
It is finally complete: a 12-minute documentary about people deported from around the United States to Nogales, Mexico. The process was arduous, shocking, and illuminating. Please, watch the video and hear voices of the voiceless, read the narrative story at deportados.arizona.edu, and comment on anything – this is an important issue was well as a learning opportunity for the public and us as filmmakers. This was made by me and Murphy Woodhouse, with some excellent videographic help from Josh Morgan, [...]
Categories: Clips, Mexico, USA • Tags: border patrol, deportados, immigration, Mexico, nogales, sonora
Grand Canyon astrophotography
by ST McNeil
Categories: Photography, USA • Tags: Arizona, Grand Canyon
Nangarhar University Curriculum Development
by ST McNeil
Last week I began working for the University of Arizona’s curriculum development partnership with Nangarhar University in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Over the next three years, a team of professors and students in Tucson led by Maggy Zanger will write materials and produce videos and translate them into Pashto for use in a multi-layered cooperative project across the US and Afghanistan. Afghani journalists (if they get all their visas) will visit Tucson, work with us on campus, and hopefully create some [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, USA • Tags: Arizona Public Media, Jalalabad, Kim Newton, Maggy Zanger, Nangarhar University, University of Arizona
