Mel Weisburd

Mel Weisburd (1927–2015) was an American writer and air pollution control pioneer whose work began bridging the divide between science and the humanities.

He was known to "have a pioneering role in environmental law enforcement, health effects research and education.

in English at UCLA in 1950, going on to study with Thomas McGrath at Los Angeles State College after that (today, LASC is known as California State University, Los Angeles).

In 1955, Weisburd co-founded and was editor of the Los Angeles-based literary journal Coastlines with the poet Gene Frumkin.

He and Frumkin, among many other Los Angeles poets, were members of the "Marsh Street Irregulars," a group that met regularly at the home of poet Thomas McGrath, around whom a good portion of the Los Angeles poetry scene orbited at that time.