Polymath Gina Solomon blogs on the Natural Resources Defense Council site about the health effects of the BP oil spill on clean-up workers, coastal dwellers, fishermen, and anyone else intimately involved in the disaster. In recent weeks Solomon has clambered onto the deck of a cleanup boat in the gulf, and using a hand-held monitor, has found volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) hanging in the air above the oil spill—despite BP’s assurances to the contrary. She is no stranger to gulf coast disaster, having pitched in after Katrina by measuring toxin and mold levels in soil, air and water. But disaster is not all she does.
A physician trained at Harvard and Yale, Solomon sees patients a clinic at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, where she directs the environmental medicine fellowship program. She also holds the post of Senior Scientist at NRDC.
Solomon the physician, teacher, and scientist is above all Solomon the activist, and in the best sense of the word. Every blog post crackles with the surly passion of a doer: “I have also repeatedly called upon BP and the Coast Guard to publicly release the air quality data that they claim shows the air is "safe" out there where hundreds of people are working….”
You can catch Solomon's blog at the NRDC's site
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/gsolomon/, and at the Huffington Post.
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