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Lynda Olman Author

Lynda Olman is a Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. She is the author of Scientists as Prophets (2013) and the editor of Global Rhetorics of Science (2023), as well as other books on the rhetoric of science. Her current work focuses on improving risk visualizations to support robust decision-making on environmental and climatic issues.

Birgit Schneider is Professor of Knowledge Cultures and Media Environments at the Potsdam University Institute for Arts and Media, Germany. Her current research concentrates on the visual communication of climate since 1800 and a genealogy of climate change visualization between science, aesthetics, and politics.