About the Authors:
Tessa Hill
Tessa Hill is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at the University of California, Davis, who teaches and researches oceanography and climate change. She is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the 2023 recipient of the American Geophysical Union Rachel Carson Lecture.
Eric Simons
Eric Simons is a science writer who was a longtime editor at Bay Nature magazine. He is the author of Darwin Slept Here (2009) and The Secret Lives of Sports Fans (2013). In addition to writing about science, nature, and the ocean, he teaches high school math.
