News outlets are reporting that President-Elect Barack Obama will this weekend name John Holdren as his nominee for White House science advisor and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. This was a cabinet-level position in previous administrations but was demoted in the current administration. The scientific community has lobbied for the post to be elevated back to cabinet level.
Holdren is a Harvard physicist who is also director of the Woods Hole Research Institute. Holdren has written at least six books on energy and the environment.
Update: Read more at the Washington Post, Science News, Science magazine, and Physics Today.
