There have, to be sure, been countless past flare-ups at the interface of science, politics, and society.
The geologist David Montgomery explores the interface of science and religion through flood stories from cultures around the world.
Bill Hooke of the American Meteorological Society is an invaluable guide to the interface of science and policy in relation to the atmosphere, climate, weather and disasters.
Bustamante, who has a longstanding interest in communicating science, says she was excited to find out that there are career paths at the interface of science and policy.
Its place at the interface of science, education, and problem solving gives citizen science a unique role in ecology and society.
She describes her practice as using the interface of science and art in the way that gravitational lensing has been used to trace unseen matter.
Above all, the CST was a reflection of how Quebec viewed the importance of the growing interface of science, culture and innovation in society; it also served as an important training ground for future decision makers and scholars.
They will build on recent advances in cancer biology, diagnosis and therapy and help to develop emerging areas at the interface of science and engineering, including nanotechnology and computational and mathematical modeling of key cancer pathways.
"We are interested in how institutions like the British Museum and Wellcome Collection use objects to piece together stories about ancient, almost fictional societies, leaving space for the viewer to fill in the gaps," says Anthony Dunne, who founded the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art with Fiona Raby, exploring the future interface of science, technology and design.
In this conference several leading authorities in the field address major dimensions of the interface of science, technology and ocean law both historically and in current-day perspective and emergent challenges in legal ordering of ocean uses for sustainability and equitability.
