Curt Stager is an ecologist, paleoclimatologist, and science journalist with a Ph.D. in biology and geology from Duke University (1985). He has published over three dozen peer-reviewed articles in major journals includingScience and Quaternary Research, and has written extensively for general audiences in periodicals such as National Geographic, New York Times, Fast Company, and Adirondack Life. Since 1990, he has also co-hosted Natural Selections, a weekly science program on North Country Public Radio that is syndicated internationally, and has toured widely to offer presentations on his research to audiences ranging, as one colleague put it, "from middle-schoolers to formal scholars." In 2013, he was named the New York State Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation.
Books by Curt Stager
Still Waters: The Secret World of Lakes
W.W. Norton & Company, 2018
Your Atomic Self: The Invisible Elements That Connect You to Everything Else in the Universe
St. Martin's Press, 2014
Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth
St. Martin's Press, 2011