We must support an optimized suite of telescopes and instruments that observe from Sun to Earth, and develop innovative approaches for incorporating these observations into models.
"He also introduced experimental observations into science in a systematic way," Dr. Stern said.
At the end of each year, he tallied his observations into an annual report, trying to identify significant social trends.
He now has two weeks to turn his observations into a little book that will be on sale for Christmas.
But he arranges common phrases and observations into patterns that echo and amplify.
The next layer combines these observations into more abstract categories, identifying edges, shadows and the like.
Two years of analysis will follow, to try to turn the observations into new climate models.
But then there are people who can turn those observations into insight.
Yet this was also a great gift, since it turned seemingly isolated observations into figures in an equation, something to be solved.
Although Elberse's book is written in the upbeat, anecdotal, gently exhortative style of an airport best-seller, she struggles to turn her observations into useful advice.
Inspired by interviews that he conducted with real museum guards, Mr. Obarzanek weaves their observations into voice-overs.
