Robert Henson is an award winning author and journalist on topics primarily concerned with the weather

Weather

Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate...

 and climate change

Climate change

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...

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Biography

Robert Henson grew up in Oklahoma City

Oklahoma city

Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Oklahoma City may also refer to:*Oklahoma City metropolitan area*Downtown Oklahoma City*Uptown Oklahoma City*Oklahoma City bombing*Oklahoma City National Memorial...

, surrounded by the wild weather of the US Great Plains. It was a tornado warning that got him interested in atmospheric science at the age of seven. Henson holds a bachelor’s degree from Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

 and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma

The University of Oklahoma is a coeducational public research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma. the university had 29,931 students enrolled, most located at its...

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In 1989 Henson joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research

National Center for Atmospheric Research

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has multiple facilities, including the I. M. Pei-designed Mesa Laboratory headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. NCAR is managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and sponsored by the National Science Foundation...

 (NCAR) and its parent organization, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).

Journalistic Work

Henson has interviewed dozens of the world’s top climate scientists while producing newsletters and reports for UCAR

UCAR

Ucar or UCAR may refer to:* University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, a U.S. organization of atmospheric research institutions* Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft, a United States pilotless attack helicopter, currently under development...

 and NCAR. He has won several Distinguished Technical Communication awards in international competitions sponsored by the Society for Technical Communication. As a freelance writer, his work has appeared in Nature, Scientific American, Discover, Audubon, Sierra, and dozens of other publications. He is a contributing editor for the magazine Weatherwise and wrote and produced more than 100 segments for the US-syndicated radio program “The Weather Notebook.”

Henson's current book, The Rough Guide to Climate Change (Rough Guides

Rough Guides

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£9.99, pp320), was shortlisted for the Royal Society's £10,000 Science Book Prize.

Henson's previous books include:
Television Weathercasting: A History (McFarland, 1990) and The Rough Guide to Weather(Rough Guides, 2002.)