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Climate change expert uses art, music to communicate scientific concerns

Rob Davies is an accomplished scientist. He worked in Russia helping with the International Space Station. He researched quantum optics in Oxford, England. He’s now an associate professor at Utah State University in the Department of Physics.

Above all, however, Davies might best be known as a talented science communicator.

In 2012, he started the Crossroad Project with the Fry Street Quartet. Together, they merge science with music and art for a moving performance about climate change and the way humans are impacting their planet. It’s been performed around the nation.

 

http://www.standard.net/Environment/2018/02/18/Climate-change-expert-uses-art-music-to-communicate-scientific-concerns

In 2012, he started the Crossroad Project with the Fry Street Quartet. Together, they merge science with music and art for a moving performance about climate change and the way humans are impacting their planet. It’s been performed around the nation.