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Climate Change Science & Technology Management Structure (Organizational Chart)

See also:  Overview of U.S. Research on Climate and Global Change.

Position: Former director Climate Change Science Program Office.

Responsibilities: Richard Moss served as director of the coordination office for the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the Climate Change Science Program from May 2000 through February 2006. He reported to the CCSP Director and the CCSP Interagency Committee and was seconded to his position from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He coordinated preparation of CCSP’s 10-year Strategic Plan (published in 2003). He coordinated program planning, implementation, and evaluation; oversaw coordination of CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Products; prepared CCSP reports; provided leadership for CCSP interactions with the National Academy of Sciences; represented the CCSP Director and Interagency Committee in public forums and meetings of CCSP Interagency Working Groups; and directed the CCSP Office. He also held an appointment as Staff Scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (University of Maryland [College Park] and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory). He has served as Director of the Technical Support Unit of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as program officer at the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme in Stockholm, Sweden, and on the faculty of Princeton University. He co-chaired the Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis of the IPCC and served on the editorial board of Climatic Change. He was named a Distinguished Associate of the U.S. Department of Energy in 2004.