Nathan Goldstein is a current MSc student in the Water Science and Governance program at King’s College London and hails from West Bloomfield Michigan, a township located near Detroit, Michigan. He completed his Bachelors of Science in both Marine Geology and History from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. Not wanting to leave the warm weather, he spent time both volunteering and working with the United States Geological Survey under Dr. Kimberly Yates. During his time with Dr. Yates he assisted on 3 field excursions to the Dry Tortuga National Park. This, in combination with his liaison role between government agencies, pushed him to better understand the ways in which science is communicated and understood as well as the dangers of climate change. In pursuit of this goal, Nathan looked towards King’s Water program as a way to do so. Primarily, its interdisciplinary capacity and breadth of faculty research drew him towards the program. Its reputation and location also provides excellent international opportunities which he hopes to capitalize on for both future research and career paths.
Nathans project at King’s will centre around the dangers of climate change, its threat to fresh water security and the (hopefully) multiple ways in which these can be averted. Having grown up in a region that has abundant fresh water (The Great Lakes and the multitude of small lakes) and lived on the Gulf of Mexico’s coast, water has been a constant is Nathan’s life. The threat of Climate Change and its multitude of dangers to coastal cities, state resources and infrastructure are an ever present and growing fact of life. Nathan hopes that his research will allow him to assist at risk areas by expressing the full extent of the dangers that loom in the future.