NOAA Library's Read with NOAA program offers a book club encouraging all NOAA to read one book, together!
Want to start a book club? We can help! Reach out to your local NOAA librarian for support or email library.reference@noaa.gov.
Read with NOAA is resuming with a new book each quarter.
Thanks to everyone who attended our June meeting! It was a great discussion. Now onwards to our next great read!
How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense by Robin George Andrews
There are approximately 25,000 "city killer" asteroids in near-Earth orbit—and most are yet to be found. Small enough to evade detection, they are capable of large-scale destruction, and represent our greatest cosmic threat. But in September 2022, against all odds, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission deliberately crashed a spacecraft into a carefully selected city killer, altering the asteroid's orbit and proving that we stand a chance against them.
Club meeting date: Monday, September 22, 2025 | 3:00 - 3:50 PM ET | Add to Google Calendar
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The Read with NOAA book club was started in 2024 as a one book a year program. In 2025 we revamped the program to quarterly reads.
Uncharted : How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias
Skylar Bayer and Gabriela Serrato Marks
Uncharted is a collection of powerful first-person stories by current and former scientists with disabilities or chronic conditions who have faced both successes and challenges because of their health.
Read with NOAA Kickoff: Uncharted w/editors Skylar Bayer and Gabi Serrato Marks
Science with Impact: How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy by Anne Helen Toomey
Social science communicator Anne Helen Toomey argues that science today faces a public-relations crisis due to its historic emphasis on "trickle-down research," and she calls for a whole-scale change in how scientists engage with the world. This book is a guide for the scientific community and its allies to build public trust in science--and scientists--again. In this accessible volume, Toomey unpacks why "facts" mean different things to different people and how science-based attitudes and behaviors spread. Using humor, stories, and down-to-earth examples from her own science journey, she explains why seemingly straightforward evidence can sometimes feel irrelevant, or even threatening, to a skeptical public.
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