Kirstin Dow | Climate Scientist
By mrclinton, Friday, September 3, 2010Hometown: Racine, Wisconsin
Living now in: Columbia, SC
My passion right now: Repair of heating ducts, the amazing unsung hero of energy savings and greenhouse gas reductions.
Words I live by: If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention.
3 items on my nightstand: 2 hungry, impatient cats–everything else is on the floor.
Occupation: Geography professor.
The oddest job I've held: Preparing fish samples for mercury analysis.
If I could live anywhere: I've come to believe it's how you live, not where.
My guilty pleasure: Driving 3 miles to work.
My secret ambition: A second career as a ceramic artist.
The food I never want to eat again: Durian, an Asian fruit that smells like rotting flesh.
Favorite restaurant: Gervais and Vine.
I still can't get the hang of: Seasons in the South. Thanksgiving and Christmas seem to come without warning.
My mother always said: You have to be blasé about something or you will die of overexcitement.
The worst idea I've ever had: It's hard to pick a winner among so many highly qualified candidates.


















