Another Look at the End of the World

Doug Boucher (dboucher@hood.edu)teaches ecology at Hood College in Frederick, MD, and works on rain forest ecology and forestry on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. David Schwartzman is a biogeochemist in the Biology Department at Howard University (dws@scs.howard.edu). His book Life, Temperature, and the Earth: the Self-Organizing Biosphere appeared in paperback last fall (Columbia University Press). Jane Zara has a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology, and is currently studying for the J.D. at Georgetown University Law School. Peter Caplan is a meteorologist who works at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration in Suitland, MD