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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: Director, Climate Change Science Program Office

Responsibilities: Peter Schultz is the Director of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Office (CCSPO). His current responsibilities include management of CCSPO's program-wide scientific integration, planning, prioritization, and assessment activities through coordination with the CCSP Director (a senior manager from NOAA), the CCSP Principals, and the CCSP Interagency Working Groups. He joined CCSPO in 2004 as the Associate Director for Science Integration. Prior to that he worked for several years at the National Academies where he directed or co-directed a dozen scientific studies related to global environmental variability and change. He also directed the creation of the National Academies new museum exhibition on climate change. Schultz has also worked at the NOAA Climate Analysis Center on global-scale remote sensing of vegetation, and as a post-doc at Penn State on integrated assessment of climate change. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Geosciences from Penn State where he conducted research using climate, carbon cycle, and integrated assessment models. He holds a B.S. in Geology from Virginia Tech. In his spare time, he enjoys coaching and playing soccer and hockey, competing in kayak slalom, and skiing.