Stephen Schneider was a professor of Environmental Biology, a great scientist and one incredible science communicator.

The short below was made by Stephen Thomson, a  year in the making, and pays tribute to this scientific and academic important figure.

Professor Schneider will be missed.

A year in the making, this video pays tribute to a critical scientific and academic figure in postmodern history: the late Climatologist and Stanford Professor Stephen Schneider (1945-2010)

This video was screened before a live audience by Climate One of the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Dec 6, 2011 as the introduction to an event honoring Stephen Schneider and presenting an award in his name to Richard Alley, Professor of Geosciences and Associate of the EMS Environment Institute.

This video will be presented again tomorrow at the AGU (American Geophysicists Union) Conference currently being held in San Francisco.