OU PROFESSOR TESTIFIES BEFORE THE U.S. SENATE

David Deming, associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, testified this morning before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works regarding discussions on climate change and the media.

Deming, a geologist and geophysicist, specializes in temperature and heat flow. He received his doctoral degree in geophysics from the University of Utah in 1988 and his bachelor of science degree in geology from Indiana University in 1983. Prior to his arrival at the University of Oklahoma in 1992, he held a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the U.S. Geological Survey in California.

Deming is the author of more than 30 research papers and a textbook on hydrogeology, and he is an associate editor for the academic journals Petroleum Geology and Ground Water. In addition to geology and geophysics, Deming has recently turned his research studies to the areas of history and philosophy of science.

For more information about Deming’s research and testimony before the U.S. Senate, members of the media may contact Deming at (405) 408-2328 or profdeming@earthlink.net. For more information on the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, visit their Web site at http://epw.senate.gov/.