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Executive Secretariat
NCADAC Chair
Jerry Melillo, Marine Biological Laboratory, MA
Professor
Jerry Melillo is Director Emeritus and Distinguished Scientist at The
Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole,
Massachusetts, USA, and a Professor of Biology at Brown University.
Professor Melillo studies the impacts of human activities on the
biogeochemistry of ecological systems, using a combination of field
studies and simulation modeling. His field studies have been in tropical, temperate and arctic ecosystems. Professor Melillo has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and two ecology textbooks.
In 1996 and 1997, he served as the Associate Director for Environment
in the U.S. President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Professor Melillo has served terms as the President of the Ecological
Society of America (ESA) and of the Scientific Committee on Problems of
the Environment (SCOPE) and was a Vice-Chair of the International
Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP).
He is an honorary Professor in the Institute of Geophysical Sciences
and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of
the American Philosophical Society, and a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as a convening lead author in
the 1990 and 1996 IPCC (WG1) Reports and has co-chaired the U.S.
government’s two climate-change assessments, the first in 2001 and the
second in 2009. Professor Melillo holds B.A. and M.A.T degrees from Wesleyan University (CT) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University.
NCADAC Vice-Chairs
Terese Richmond, Gordon Derr, L.L.P., WA
Terese
“T.C.” Richmond is an attorney with the law firm of GordonDerr, LLP in
Seattle. She has over 25 years' experience representing state and local
governmental agencies in Washington and Arizona.
Her practice focuses on environmental law, land use, water law, climate
change, and governance, primarily representing governmental agencies
and districts in the planning and management of water resources.
T.C. has been a member of working groups at the state-level addressing
climate change as part of the environmental review process. Prior to joining GordonDerr, T.C. was Senior Counsel for the Attorney General's Office University of Washington Division.
There, she represented the University in the areas of health and
safety, environmental law, land use, and all matters related to the
planning and development at the University’s campuses and facilities.
As an AAG, T.C. also represented the Washington Department of Fish and
Department of Wildlife and the Washington Department of Ecology in
matters related to habitat, endangered species, tribal law, air
pollution and hazardous materials.
In addition to her AG experience, T.C. served as Chief Counsel to the
Arizona Department of Water Resources where her practice included
advising on interstate water compacts, water rights, Indian water rights
settlements, and endangered species.
She also served as Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for King County
in the natural resources division and as a Special Assistant to the
Governor Gardner on water rights issues and Congressional legislation in
the Yakima Basin. She is a
graduate of Whitman College in Walla Walla WA, with a degree in biology
and Gonzaga University School of Law in Spokane WA.
Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University, CT
Gary Yohe is the Huffington Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1975.
He is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles, several books,
and many contributions to media coverage of climate issues, espeically
mitigation and adaptation/impacts. He is a senior member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
He served as a Lead Author for four different chapters in the Third
Assessment Report that was published in 2001 and as a Convening Lead
Author in Working Group II of the Fourth Assessment Report.
In that Assessment, he also worked with the Core Writing Team to
prepare the overall Synthesis Report; currently he is serving as a
Convening Lead Author for the chapter on Detection and Attribution in
the Fifth Assessment Report.
Dr. Yohe is also a member of the New York City Panel on Climate Change
and the standing Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change of
the National Academy of Sciences.
He served on the Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
Adaptation Panel for the National Academy of Sciences’ initiative on
America’s Climate Choices and on the National Research Council Committee
on Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations. He is also, with Michael Oppenheimer since July of 2010, co-editor of Climatic Change.
Executive Secretariat Members
James Buizer, University of Arizona, AZ
James Buizer is Professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, and Director for Climate Adaptation and International Development in the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona. Previously he served as Science Policy Advisor to the President at Arizona State University, where he continues to hold a position as Senior Sustainability Scientist in the Global Institute of Sustainability. From 2003-2007 he served as founding Executive Director of the Office of Sustainability Initiatives in the Office of the President, where he led the conceptualization, design and initiation of the GIOS and its School of Sustainability, launched fall 2006. Prior to ASU he was Director of the Climate and Societal Interactions Office at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) where he was responsible for providing programmatic vision, design and leadership of NOAA's integrated, multidisciplinary research and applications grants program positioned at the climate and societal interface. Jim led the establishment of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment (RISA) program. He recently served on the National Academy of Sciences panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change. Jim received his degrees in Oceanography, Marine Resource Economics and Science Policy from the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington and is a native Spanish speaker.
David Gustafson, Monsanto Company, MO
David
Gustafson is a Senior Fellow at Monsanto Company, where he serves as
the Regulatory lead for Water Quality and Ag Sustainability.
His academic training was at Stanford University and the University of
Washington in Seattle, where he received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees,
both in chemical engineering. His research on the environmental challenges surrounding agricultural has now spanned nearly 30 years.
The initial focus of his work was the development of new computer
models for predicting the environmental behavior of crop chemicals,
especially their potential impacts on water quality.
Among the models he developed for this purpose is the GUS-Index, which
is now used by regulatory agencies worldwide to determine the potential
of pesticides to contaminate ground water supplies.
In subsequent years, Dave developed new modeling approaches to
pollen-mediated gene flow and the population genetics of insect and weed
resistance. In 2007, Dave
served as an inaugural member and theme lead for the Monsanto Fellows
Climate Change Panel, which reported back to the company on the degree
of scientific certainty in global climate modeling, and how it is likely
to impact agriculture around the world.
He now serves on various Monsanto teams looking at the new imperatives
and constraints placed on agriculture by man-made global warming,
hypoxia, and other environmental challenges.
Sharon Hays, Computer Sciences Corporation, VA
Dr.
Sharon L. Hays is Vice President, Office of Science and Engineering, at
CSC. Dr. Hays leads a team focused on developing and executing
strategies aimed at making CSC a leader in the emerging climate change,
energy and sustainability market. Before joining CSC, Dr. Hays served in
the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) where,
after confirmation by the U.S. Senate, she served as a deputy to the
President’s Science Advisor. In
this role, she led the strategic direction for all OSTP activities
related to a range of science initiatives and advised senior White House
officials on environmental and security policies. In 2007, Dr. Hays led the U.S. delegation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Earlier in her career, she worked on Capitol Hill, serving in several
senior staff positions in the House of Representatives. Dr. Hays
received her PhD in Biochemistry from Stanford University, where she
studied in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Paul Berg. She also holds a BA in Molecular Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Thomas Karl, Subcommittee on Global Change Research, NC
Thomas
Karl currently serves as the Chair of the Subcommittee on Global Change
Research and is the Director of National Climatic Data Center in
Asheville, North Carolina. Karl is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and has recently completed his term as President.
He is also a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, serves on the
World Climate Research Programme’s Joint Scientific Committee, and on
the steering committee of the World Meteorological Society’s Global
Climate Observing System. Karl
has received extensive recognition for his significant contributions in
climate science and services, including two Presidential Rank Awards,
five Gold Medals and two Bronze Medals from the Department of Commerce,
the American Meteorological Society's Suomi Award, National Associate of
the National Academy of Sciences, the NOAA Administrator's Award, and
several others. Karl has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and several books as Editor and Contributor.
He has been the Convening and Lead Author and Review Editor of all the
major IPCC assessments since 1990, which were awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize in 2007. He served as Editor of the Journal of Climate from 1997 to 2000.
He was Co-Chair of the U.S. National Assessment in 2009, Global Climate
Change Impacts in the United States, and a number of other assessments
produced by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Karl was born and raised in Evergreen Park, Illinois.
He received his B.S. degree in Meteorology from Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb, Illinois in 1973, his master’s degree from the
University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1974, and was awarded an honorary
Doctorate of Humane Letters from North Carolina State University in
2002.
Jo-Ann Leong, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and Oregon State University, HI
Dr. Jo-Ann C. Leong is the Director of the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) and Professor in the School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
She received her doctoral degree in 1971 from the University of
California at San Francisco, School of Medicine. Dr. Leong was a
Distinguished Professor, former Chairman of the Department of
Microbiology, and the Emile Pernot Endowed Professor at Oregon State
University. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Microbiology.
She now serves as the Chairman of the Board for the Center of Tropical
and Subtropical Aquaculture, is President Elect of the National
Association of Marine Laboratories, is Co-Chair of the Ecosystem Science
and Management Working Group for the NOAA Scientific Advisory Board,
and is on the National Committee of the Census of Marine Life.
Dr. Leong has published over 100 refereed research papers resulting
from the work of her 18 doctoral and 6 M.S. students. Dr. Leong has
focused HIMB’s research efforts on determining the effects of climate
change on Pacific island marine ecosystems based on faculty expertise in
coral reef ecosystem health, marine vertebrate and invertebrate
evolution, connectivity and biogeography.
Susanne Moser, Moser Consulting, CA
Susanne Moser is Director and Principal Researcher of Susanne Moser Research &
Consulting in Santa Cruz, California. She also serves as a Social
Science Research Fellow at Stanford University, and as a Research
Associate at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Her work focuses
on adaptation to climate change, resilience, decision support, and
effective climate change communication in support of social change.
Previously she served as a Research Scientist at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research. She has worked for the Heinz Center on a
congressionally mandated project on coastal erosion and management, and
for the Union of Concerned Scientists as their staff scientist for
climate change. Dr. Moser is a geographer by training (Ph.D. 1997, Clark
University), whose research foci for the last 15 years have been the
human dimensions of global change, and how they play out in coastal
areas, human health, and forest-reliant rural as well as urban areas.
Dr. Moser is co-editor of the anthology Creating a Climate for Change:
Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change (2007). Dr.
Moser contributed to Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report, is a Review Editor for the
IPCC’s Special Report on Extreme Events, and again a contributing author
for the IPCC Fifth Assessment. Her work has been recognized through
fellowships in the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, the UCAR Leadership
Academy, and others.
Richard Moss, University of Maryland and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNL), MD
Richard
H. Moss is Senior Research Scientist with the Joint Global Change
Research Institute of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Visiting
Senior Research Scientist at the University of Maryland. He served as
Director of the Office of the U.S. Global Change Research
Program/Climate Change Science Program (2000-06), Vice President and
Managing Director for Climate Change at the World Wildlife Fund-U.S.
(2007-09), and Senior Director of the U.N. Foundation Energy and Climate
Program (2006-2007). He directed the Technical Support Unit of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) impacts, adaptation,
and mitigation working group (1993-1999) and served on the faculty of
Princeton University (1989-91). He has been a lead author and editor of a
number of assessments, reports, and research papers. Moss chairs the
U.S. National Academy of Science’s committee on the human dimensions of
global environmental change. He currently co-chairs the IPCC Task Group
on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis. He was
named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) in 2006, a Distinguished Associate of the U.S. Department
of Energy in 2004, and a fellow of the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program
in 2001. He received an M.P.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University
(Public and International Affairs) and a B.A. from Carleton College in
Northfield, MN. Moss’ research
interests include development and use of scenarios, characterization and
communication of uncertainty, and assessment of adaptive capacity and
vulnerability to climate change.
Lindene Patton, Zurich Financial Services, VA
Lindene
Patton is Chief Climate Product Officer for Zurich Financial Services
(Zurich). She is responsible for product development and risk management
related to climate change.
She is a project Board Member for the World Economic Forum Low Carbon
Finance Initiative and the Forest Carbon Finance Initiative. She is an
advisory board member for the University of California at Santa
Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. She is a
member of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
(ICLEI) for Sustainable Governments Adaptation Experts Advisory
Committee. Ms. Patton serves as the Vice-Chair of the Climate Change and
Tort Liability Sub-Committee of the Geneva Association. Ms. Patton also
serves on numerous government and non-governmental advisory boards,
including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental
Financial Advisory Board, the Bureau of National Affairs' monthly
publication, the Environmental Due Diligence Guide, and the US EPA
Environmental Technology Verification Program.
Ms. Patton is an attorney licensed in California and the District of
Columbia and an American Board of Industrial Hygiene Certified
Industrial Hygienist. She holds a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry
from the University of California, Davis, a Master of Public Health from
the University of California, Berkeley, and a Juris Doctor from Santa
Clara University School of Law.
Andrew Rosenberg, University of New Hampshire, Conservation International, NH
Dr.
Andrew Rosenberg is Senior Vice President for Science and Knowledge at
Conservation International and a Professor in the Institute for the
Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire
where, prior to April 2004, he was dean of the College of Life Sciences
and Agriculture. From
2001-2004, he was a member of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and
continues to work with the U.S. Joint Ocean Commissions Initiative.
Dr. Rosenberg was the Deputy Director of NOAA’s National Marine
Fisheries Service from 1998-2000, the senior career position in the
agency, and prior to that he was the NMFS Northeast Regional
Administrator. Dr. Rosenberg’s scientific work is in the field of population dynamics, resource assessment and resource management policy.
He holds a B.S. in Fisheries Biology from the University of
Massachusetts, an M.S. in Oceanography from Oregon State University and a
Ph.D. in Biology from Dalhousie University.
Donald Wuebbles, University of Illinois, IL
Donald
Wuebbles is the Harry E. Preble Professor of Atmospheric Science at the
University of Illinois. He is a professor in the Department of
Atmospheric Sciences as well as an affiliate professor in both the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and in the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was also the first Director
of the School of Earth, Society, and Environment, and was Head of the
Department of Atmospheric Sciences from 1994 until 2006. He spent many
years as a research scientist and group leader at the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory before returning to the University of Illinois in
1994. Dr. Wuebbles is an expert in developing and applying numerical
models of the Earth system. He is the author of over 400 peer-reviewed
scientific articles, most of which relate to atmospheric chemistry and
climate science issues. He has been a lead author on a number of
national and international assessments related to concerns about climate
change. He has also been a lead author on national and international
assessments relating to atmospheric chemistry and the effects of human
activities on stratospheric and tropospheric ozone. Dr. Wuebbles
received the 2005 Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. He has been honored by being selected a
Fellow of two major professional science societies, the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geophysical
Union. He shares in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his previous work
with the international Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He was
a member of a federal advisory committee that assessed and in 2009
published a report on the potential impacts of climate change on the
United States. Professor Wuebbles is a Coordinating Lead Author for the
next major international IPCC assessment of climate change. He earned a
B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Illinois, Urbana and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University
of California, Davis.
Committee Members
Daniel Abbasi, Mission Point Capital Partners, CT
Dan
Abbasi is an investor with MissionPoint Capital Partners, a
Connecticut-based investment firm specializing in financing the
transition to a low-carbon economy. Dan has worked with policy-makers to
design a stable, long-term policy framework to accelerate the
deployment of low-carbon solutions, including testimony to multiple
committees and caucuses in the U.S. Congress. Dan is a former Associate
Dean at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies,
where he convened high-level meetings on climate change and authored the
influential book “Americans and Climate Change: Closing the Gap Between
Science and Action.” He has served in strategy, M&A
and senior operating roles for subsidiaries of the Washington Post
Company and Time Warner. Dan was previously a Senior Advisor in the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Policy, during which he
co-chaired the Strategy Committee for the U.S. Environmental Technology
Initiative and worked with the White House to produce the first U.S.
National Action Plan on Climate Change. Previously, while on staff at
the World Resources Institute, he advised Fortune 500 companies on
environmental cost accounting. Dan earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from
Harvard College, an M.A. from Stanford University, an MBA from Harvard
Business School, and expects to receive his Ph.D. from Stanford in 2011.
E. Virginia Armbrust, University of Washington, WA
E.
Virginia Armbrust is a marine microbiologist and Professor of
Oceanography at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on
marine phytoplankton, a group of microbes responsible for about 40% of
the total amount of photosynthesis that occurs on our planet. These
organisms play a critical role in the global carbon cycle and ultimately
in the global climate. Her
research addresses the response of marine microbial communities to
changing environmental conditions, including changes in biodiversity.
She heads the Center for Environmental Genomics at the University of
Washington, which brings together researchers with expertise in
oceanography, microbiology, genomics, engineering, and data
visualization. She also co-directs the Pacific Northwest Center for
Human Health and Ocean Studies, created to understand links between
ocean processes and human health, with a focus on understanding how
environmental conditions trigger blooms of harmful algae, and how these
blooms impact public health. She received her B. A. from Stanford
University and her Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution. She is a Gordon
and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator in Marine Microbiology and a
Lowell A. and Frankie L. Wakefield Professor in Oceanography.
T.M. Bull Bennett, Kiksapa Consulting, LLC, ND
Dr.
T. M. Bull Bennett (Mi’kmaq), studied field and range ecology earning a
BS in Biology from Black Hills State University. He completed his MS in
Zoology and Physiology at the University of Wyoming where he studied
captive propagation of black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) as part
of the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center recovery program
in conjunction with the US Fish and Wildlife Cooperative Research Unit.
Following his MS program, Dr. Bennett worked for Tribal Colleges in
South Dakota, first at Oglala Lakota College (Pine Ridge Reservation),
then Si Tanka College (Cheyenne River Reservation), before returning to
graduate school. Dr. Bennett earned his PhD at the South Dakota School
of Mines and Technology where he studied bison impacts on shortgrass
/shrub steppe prairie utilizing geospatial technologies and biophysical
parameter measurements. After completing his PhD, Dr. Bennett worked for
the North Dakota Association of Tribal Colleges, first as the Science
Coordinator and then as President and CEO. In 2008, Dr. Bennett was
appointed by the Secretary of Interior as a charter member of the
National Geospatial Advisory Committee. He began Kiksapa Consulting, LLC
in 2009 and continues to work with Tribes and Tribal Colleges providing
science education, research opportunities and investigating climate
impacts on habitats and marginal populations. Dr. Bennett, his wife and
three children reside near Mandan, ND.
Rosina Bierbaum, PCAST, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, MI
In
October 2001, Rosina Bierbaum became Dean of the School of Natural
Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. Previously, she
served in environmental science policy leadership positions in both the
legislative and executive branches of United States government,
culminating as director of the Environment Division of the White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy, a Senate-confirmed position. In
April 2008, Dr. Bierbaum was selected by the World Bank to co-direct
the World Development Report 2010, an annual publication that focuses on
a different topic each year and aims both to consolidate existing
knowledge on a particular aspect of development and to stimulate debate
on new directions for development policy. Dr. Bierbaum has been elected a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, and was named by President
Barack Obama to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology. She co-chaired the National Climate Adaptation Summit in May
2010. She currently is on the boards of the Federation of American
Scientists; the Environmental and Energy Study Institute; the Energy
Foundation; and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. She is also a
member of the Executive Committee for the Tyler Prize for Environmental
Achievement. Dr. Bierbaum
received her B.S. in Biology and B.A. in English from Boston College,
and earned her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution at the State University of
New York, Stony Brook.
Maria Blair, American Cancer Society, NY
Maria
Blair rejoined the Rockefeller Foundation in 2010, and as a Managing
Director, she provides leadership and strategic direction for select
Foundation initiatives. Ms. Blair was the deputy associate director for
climate change adaptation at the White House Council on Environmental
Quality. While there she helped to lead an interagency effort to develop
federal recommendations for adapting to climate change impacts both
domestically and internationally.
The effort included developing a federal mechanism to make information
and scientific data about the impact of climate change available to the
public and helping agencies to better understand the risks of climate
change; Ms. Blair remains an
advisor to CEQ on climate change policy issues. During her previous
tenure at the Rockefeller Foundation (2005-2009) she helped to develop
the strategic direction of the Foundation, and managed initiatives.
Ms. Blair developed and led the Building Climate Change Resilience
initiative, a multi-year, $70 million project to catalyze attention,
funding, and action in building climate change resilience for poor and
vulnerable people globally. She
also developed and led the Accelerating Innovation initiative, which
seeks to test the use and scaling of new innovation tools and methods.
Ms. Blair is an Aspen Institute Catto Fellow, and is active on several
non-profit boards. She was a
Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University’s Balliol College, where she earned a
master’s degree in politics, economics and philosophy and has her
undergraduate degree from Harvard University.
Lynne Carter, Louisiana State University, LA
Lynne
Carter is Associate Director, Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program
(SCIPP) –a stakeholder-driven program focusing on serving the climate
information needs of the south-central U.S. and Associate Director for
the Coastal Sustainability Studio at LSU, an effort to bring together
designers (architects and landscape architects) with engineers and
coastal scientists to rethink what might work along the coast. Dr.
Carter is also the Director of the Adaptation Network, a non-profit,
established (2006) to assist U.S. communities to build resilience and
reduce vulnerabilities to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. She
has worked on a wide range of climate change issues since 1988 and has
organized conferences and workshops on various aspects of climate
change, including around natural resource adaptations for the New
England Governors/ Eastern Canadian Premiers. She was the Regional
Liaison to the 19 regions for the first U.S. National Assessment. She
has developed and taught semester long and short courses, delivered more
than 60 public presentations on climate change, written and contributed
to articles and reports on climate change for a variety of audiences,
including the most recent U.S. National Assessment - Global Climate
Change Impacts in the United States (June, 2009). Dr. Carter earned an
M.S. from the University of Connecticut in Marine Ecology and
Ichthyology, an M.M.A. from the University of Rhode Island in Marine
Affairs/Marine Policy, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wales in
Maritime Studies/Climate Change Education.
F. Stuart Chapin III, University of Alaska, AK
F.
Stuart “Terry” Chapin, III is a Professor of Ecology in the Department
of Biology and Wildlife at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he
joined the faculty in 1973. Most of his research is about the effects of
changes in climate and wildfire on Alaskan ecology and rural
communities. He is especially interested in ways that communities and
agencies can develop options that increase sustainability of ecosystems
and human communities over the long term in spite of rapid climatic and
social changes. Through his research, he tries to determine how climate,
ecology, and subsistence resources are likely to change in the future.
This information should enable people to make more informed choices
about options for long-term sustainability. Terry teaches classes at the
university and directs the interdisciplinary (IGERT) program in
Resilience and Adaptation. He earned his Ph.D. in biology from Stanford
University.
Camille Coley, Florida Atlantic University, FL
Camille
E. Coley, J.D., is Assistant Vice President and Associate Director for
the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center at Florida
Atlantic University. As the
Assistant Vice President for Research, Ms. Coley provides oversight to
the pre-award and post-award functions of the University. In 2008, she served as a Member of the Governor’s Action Team on Energy and Climate Change.
Currently, she is a member of the Florida Atlantic University’s
Integrative Collaborative on Climate Change, which is a cross-university
program that works with partners within both governmental and
non-governmental organizations.
As Associate Director for the Southeast National Marine Renewable
Energy Center, Ms. Coley is responsible for the policy and environmental
regulatory activities associated with deployment of ocean current
turbines in the Florida Gulf Stream.
Ms. Coley is also a trustee member of the Southeastern Universities
Research Association Coastal and Environmental Research Committee.
Prior to working at FAU, Ms. Coley was a Project Manager for the
University of Rhode Island’s Coastal Resources Center where she
supported the development of coastal management capacity in East Africa. Ms. Coley has a Juris Doctorate from the University of Maryland - School of Law. She received her bachelor’s degree from Towson State University in Maryland.
Jan Dell, CH2MHill, CA
Ms. Dell is a Vice President in the Energy and Water Division of CH2M HILL. CH2M HILL is a global program management, engineering, design and construction company. Ms. Dell
is a registered chemical engineer (M.S. University of California,
Berkeley) with over 25 years of experience extending across more than 40
countries including China, Canada, the Mid East, Australia and other
regions with energy resources and water supply constraints.
She has worked with global companies in the oil and gas, power,
chemical, manufacturing, food, beverage, footwear, apparel, and
entertainment industries to develop major projects and implement
sustainable business practices in their business operations, their
communities and their supply chains. Ms. Dell has led collaborative
business and energy industry initiatives on adaptation to the projected
impacts of climate change. In
2007, Ms. Dell led the creation of the WBCSD Global Water Tool which has
since been used by hundreds of companies to measure their water usage
and map their risks on a global level. Ms. Dell has written numerous
technical papers and has spoken at multi-sector, multi-stakeholder
forums on global energy-water issues. Ms. Dell is a Board Member of the
World Environment Center.
Plácido dos Santos, University of Arizona - Water Resources Research Center
Plácido dos Santos recently retired with 25 years of experience in water resources and environmental management in Arizona.
He served in senior positions with the Arizona Water Institute (AWI),
the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ), the Arizona
Department of Water Resources (ADWR) and, most recently with the Central
Arizona Project, Arizona's wholesale water utility for Colorado River
water. He has served on several
federal advisory committees including the National Environmental
Conflict Resolution Advisory Committee (NECRAC), the U.S. Governmental
Advisory Committee regarding North American environmental issues and the
Good Neighbor Environmental Board (GNEB) which advises the President
and Congress on U.S.-Mexico border environmental issues. He was chairman of the GNEB and the GAC. Much of his career was focused on water and environmental issues along the U.S.-Mexico border. Before entering public service, he was a mining geologist in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
Plácido earned a bachelor's degree in geology from the University of
Colorado and performed graduate studies in geosciences at the University
of Arizona. He is a recipient of the U.S. EPA’s Earth Day award for environmental excellence.
Paul Fleming, Seattle Public Utilities, WA
Paul Fleming is the Manager of the Climate and Sustainability Group for the Seattle Public Utilities (SPU).
Paul directs SPU’s climate change program and is responsible for
leading SPU’s assessment efforts, developing SPU’s climate adaptation
and mitigation strategies and research agenda, and establishing
collaborative partnerships with other utilities and research
organizations in the U.S. and abroad.
SPU provides a reliable drinking water supply to 1.3 million people in
the Seattle metropolitan area and provides essential sewer, drainage and
solid waste services to City of Seattle customers.
Paul is active in the Water Utility Climate Alliance and the
Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, and served on the Water
Research Foundation’s Climate Change Strategic Initiative’s Expert
Panel.
He was Co-chair of EPA’s Climate Ready Water Utilities Working Group
and has testified before the US House of Representatives on climate
services legislation. Paul is particularly interested in ensuring that
the knowledge, emerging capacity and climate assessment work of the
water sector and local government is reflected in the NCA. Paul has a BA in Economics from Duke University and an MBA from the University of Washington.
He is a Scott M. Johnson Fellow of the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program
and a participant in the U.S. Spain Council’s Young Leaders Program.
Guido Franco, California Energy Commission, CA
Guido
Franco is the technical co-director of the Energy Commission’s
California Climate Change Center which is dedicated to complement
national and international climate change research efforts to produce
studies tailored to inform policy in California.
His main role for the Center involves the design of its overall
research strategy and the coordination and integration of the research
involving the University of California and other scientific entities in
the state. Guido leads the
preparation of periodic impacts and adaptation studies (Assessments) for
California prepared for the Governor and the Legislature. These
Assessments have been very influential. The first Assessment released in
2006 contributed to the passage of a law limiting 2020 greenhouse gas
emissions in California to 1990 levels.
The 2009 Assessment provided the scientific foundation for the first
statewide adaptation strategy. Currently he is leading the preparation
of the third assessment for California focusing on vulnerability and
adaptation at the regional and local levels. Guido also acts as the main
liaison between the scientists associated with the Center and local,
regional, and state agencies to ensure that the Center’s climate change
research is practical and useful for long-term planning. He earned a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
Mary Gade, Gade Consulting, IL
Mary
Gade is currently the President of Gade Environmental Group, LLC, an
international consulting firm that provides strategic advice on energy,
climate and environmental issues. From October 2006 until June 2008, Ms. Gade served as the Region V Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to her Presidential appointment, she was a Partner in the environmental practice group of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP in Chicago. Previously, Ms. Gade was the Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency under Governor Jim Edgar. During her eight years there, she was a co-founder of the Environmental Council of the States.
Ms. Gade has also held other senior management positions at the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency in key areas such as emergency response,
Superfund cleanup and air quality. She served as the Deputy Assistant Administrator of U.S. EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response in Washington, D.C.
In 2008, Ms. Gade was awarded the prestigious Richard Beatty Mellon
Environmental Stewardship Award by the Air and Waste Management
Association. Ms. Gade has a J.D. from Washington University School of Law.
Aris Georgakakos, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA
Dr.
Aris P. Georgakakos holds a civil engineering Diploma from the National
Technical University of Athens, Greece, and master’s and Ph.D. degrees
in water resources from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Georgakakos is currently a Professor at the School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech, Head of the Environmental
Fluid Mechanics and Water Resources Program, and Director of the Georgia
Water Resources Institute. Dr.
Georgakakos’ research and technology transfer activities aim to develop
and implement prototypical information and decision-support systems for
integrated and sustainable water resources development and management.
These systems combine data from conventional and remote sources, GIS,
and models from various scientific and engineering disciplines
(including climate, hydrology, agricultural science, water resources,
wetland and river ecology, hydro-thermal power systems, economics,
statistics, and operations research).
Dr. Georgakakos has been involved in several world regions and his
decision-support systems are currently used for river basin planning and
management in Georgia and the southeastern U.S., California, East
Africa, Brazil, Jordan, Greece, and China. His research has been
sponsored by U.S. and foreign organizations including the U.S.
Geological Survey, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation, Environmental
Protection Agency, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations, World Bank, U.S. and European International Development
Agencies, and several domestic and foreign electrical utilities.
Dr. Georgakakos has published extensively and serves as an Associate
Editor for the Advances in Water Resources Journal and the Journal of
Hydrology.
David Hales, College of the Atlantic, ME
David
F. Hales has been president of College of the Atlantic since 2006. In
2007, College of the Atlantic became the first institution of higher
education in the U.S. to become a “NetZero” emitter of greenhouse gases,
and was a founding member of the American College and University
President’s Climate Commitment. Before accepting the presidency of COA,
he held numerous positions promoting sustainability nationally and
internationally. In the 1990’s, he directed environmental and
sustainability programs of the United States Agency for International
Development. He has also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish,
Wildlife and Parks at the United States Interior Department, as Director
of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and as the Samuel Dana
Chair at the University of Michigan. Hales has represented the United
States in various multilateral negotiations, including the Framework
Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biodiversity, the
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, Rio Plus 5 and
Habitat II and has served as chair or moderator of international
conferences, including the Washington and Bonn International Conferences
on Renewable Energy and the Hague Conference on Energy for Development.
A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Hales holds a master’s degree in
political science from the University of Oklahoma and a bachelor’s
degree in political science from Hardin-Simmons University.
Mark Howden, Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), AUS
Dr.
Mark Howden is a Chief Research Scientist with CSIRO Ecosystem
Sciences, Canberra, Australia. He is also the Theme Leader of the
‘Adaptive primary industries, enterprises and communities’ theme in the
CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship and is an Honorary Professor at
Melbourne University, School of Land and Food. Mark’s work has focused
on the impacts of climate on Australian ecosystems and urban systems
dealing with, amongst other things, the dynamics of grazed and cropped
ecosystems, development of innovative and sustainable farming systems,
biodiversity, energy systems and water use. He has also developed the
national (NGGI) and international (IPCC/OECD) greenhouse gas inventories
for the agricultural sector and assessed sustainable methods of
reducing greenhouse emissions from agriculture. Mark has worked on
climate change issues for over 22 years in partnership with farmers,
farmer groups, catchment groups, industry bodies, agribusiness, urban
utilities and various policy agencies. He has been a major contributor
to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Second, Third,
Fourth and Fifth Assessment reports, the IPCC Regional Impacts Report
and the IPCC Special Report on ‘Land use, land use change and forestry’
that addressed issues of carbon sequestration and the Kyoto Protocol,
sharing the 2007 Peace Prize with other IPCC participants and Al Gore.
Mark was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from Griffith University,
Brisbane, Australia, for his research on tropical grazing systems.
Anthony Janetos, Joint Global Change Research Institute, MD
Dr.
Anthony Janetos is the Director of the Joint Global Change Research
Institute, a joint venture between the Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory and the University of Maryland. He is also a Laboratory
Fellow of PNNL. Dr. Janetos has
many years of experience in managing scientific and policy research
programs on a variety of ecological and environmental topics, including
air pollution effects on forests, climate change impacts, land-use
change, ecosystem modeling, and the global carbon cycle. He was also a
co-convening lead author of the Climate Change Science Program’s
Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3, Climate Change Impacts on
Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity, and has
participated in or led several national and international scientific
assessments on climate and global change topics.
With many collaborators, Dr. Janetos has written and spoken about the
need to understand the scientific, environmental, economic, and policy
linkages among the major global environmental issues, and the need to
keep basic human needs in the forefront of the thinking of the
environmental science and policy communities. Dr. Janetos graduated
Magna cum Laude from Harvard College with a bachelor’s degree in biology
and earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in biology from Princeton
University.
Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy, WA
Peter Kareiva is Chief Scientist and Vice President for The Nature Conservancy.
Prior to joining The Conservancy’s staff, Peter spent more than 20
years in academics (primarily University of Washington and Brown
University) and worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, where he directed the Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Conservation Biology Division. Peter combines mathematical modeling
with close attention to empirical data, and has published in the areas
of mathematical biology, fisheries science, risk analysis, genetically
engineered organisms, agricultural ecology, landscape ecology and global
climate change. Peter believes
that general communications and writing are essential in science, and
has written (with Dr. Michelle Marvier of Santa Clara University) the
conservation textbook Conservation Science: Balancing the Needs of
People and Nature (Roberts &
Company 2010). In 2007, Peter was elected to the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. Peter also cofounded (with Gretchen Daily and Taylor
Ricketts) the Natural Capital Project, a pioneering partnership among
The Nature Conservancy, Stanford University and WWF to develop credible
tools that allow routine consideration of nature’s assets (or ecosystem
services). Peter received his Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology
from Cornell University and his bachelor’s degree in Zoology from Duke
University.
Rattan Lal, Ohio State University, OH
Rattan
Lal, Ph.D., is a professor of soil physics in the School of Environment
and Natural Resources, and Director of the Carbon Management and
Sequestration Center at the Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, OH.
He holds adjunct professorship at the University of Iceland. He earned
his B.Sc. (1963) from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India,
and his M.Sc. (1965) from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New
Delhi, India, and Ph.D. (1968) from OSU. Professor Lal worked at the
University of Sydney, Australia as Senior Research Fellow (1968-69), the
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria as
Soil Physicist (1970-1987), and at OSU since 1987. He conducts research
on soils and climate change, soil quality, and soil restoration and
management in relation to global food security. He teaches two graduate
classes entitled "Soils and Climate" and "Environmental Soil Physics".
He has been academic advisor to about 100 graduate students, 45
postdoctoral researchers and 60 visiting scholars. He is a member of the
American Association for Advancement of Sciences, Soil Science Society
of America, American Society of Agronomy, and Soil and Water
Conservation Society. He has authored and coauthored about 600 refereed
journal articles and 13 books, and edited or co-edited 45 reference
books. He was president of the Soil Science Society of America, and
member of the U.S. National Committee of Soil Science of the NAS.
Arthur Lee, Chevron Corporation, CA
Arthur Lee is a Chevron Fellow and Principal Advisor of Environment and Climate Change at Chevron Services Company. He advises management on the business aspects of global climate change and technology deployment issues.
Arthur is a team leader on deployment issues in the CO2 Capture
Project, which is the global joint industry-governments project to
develop the next generation of CO2 capture and storage technology. He is
serving a 3-year term in the National Academy of Sciences (National
Research Council) Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate. Since 2003,
Arthur continues to participate in the stakeholders panels of the Carbon
Sequestration Leadership Forum policy group meetings.
Arthur was a participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) assessment processes, including in IPCC's Special Report
on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2005).
He also participates in the International Energy Agency’s activities on
carbon capture and storage deployment and renewable energy technology
assessments. From 2005-2007, he
served as the chairman of the Climate Change Working Group of the
International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association,
which has an official observer role at the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change negotiations. Prior to joining Texaco in
1993, Arthur was a regulator at the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency's Acid Rain Division. He
obtained his M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute
of Technology in 1987 and his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985.
Diana Liverman, University of Arizona and Oxford University, AZ
Professor
Diana Liverman is the co-director of the Institute of the Environment
at the University of Arizona and professor of Geography and Development.
She is also affiliated with Oxford University as visiting professor and
senior research fellow in the Environmental Change Institute. Her degrees are from University College London (B.A.), University of Toronto (M.A.) and UCLA (Ph.D.).
Her research interests include the human and social dimensions of
environmental issues including vulnerability and adaptation to natural
hazards and climate variability, environmental change and food security,
and environmental problems and policy in the developing world
especially Latin America. She is author of 6 books and more than 100
research articles, chapters and major reports. Her awards include the
Founders Gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society and distinguished
honors of the Association of American Geographers.
Her service to national and international advisory committees includes
leadership as chair of the USNRC committee on the Human Dimensions of
Global Environmental Change and of the U.S. National Academies panel on
Informing America’s Climate Choices. Internationally she chairs the
scientific advisory committee international Global Environmental Change
and Food Systems (GECAFS) program and has advised the Inter American
Institute and the UK Climate Impacts Programme.
Rezaul Mahmood, Western Kentucky University, KY
Dr. Rezaul Mahmood is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Geology at Western Kentucky University. He is also Associate Director of the Kentucky Climate Center and the Kentucky Mesonet. In addition, Rezaul serves as the Editor of ‘Earth Interactions’, an academic journal jointly published by the American Geophysical Society, the American Meteorological Society, and the Association of American Geographers. He has received his PhD. in Geography from the University of Oklahoma with specialization in Climate Science. Subsequently, he has completed Post-doctoral research work from the University of Nebraska focusing on land surface-atmosphere interactions. He also has a BSc. and MSc. in Geography from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and an MA in Geography (with specialization in Climate Science) from the State University of New York at Albany. Currently, his teaching and research is focused on meteorological and climate monitoring, atmospheric modeling, impacts of land use land cover change on weather and climate. Rezaul played a key role in the development of strategic vision and design of the Kentucky Mesonet. He works very closely with the state climate office and spends significant time in service and outreach as they relate to weather and climate. In this capacity he is totally aware of the challenges related to assessing impacts of climate change on natural and socio-economic systems and also communicating our current understanding to citizens and policy makers.
Edward Maibach, George Mason University, VA
Edward
Maibach is director of George Mason University’s Center for Climate
Change Communication. Drawing on considerable experience as a researcher
and practitioner of public health communication and social marketing,
his work focuses on how to mobilize populations to adopt behaviors and
support public policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help
communities adapt to unavoidable consequences of climate change. Ed
previously served as Associate Director of the National Cancer
Institute, Worldwide Director of Social Marketing at Porter Novelli, and
Board Chair at Kidsave International. He earned his doctoral degree at Stanford University and MPH at San Diego State University.
Michael McGeehin, RTI International, GA
Michael
McGeehin is a senior environmental health epidemiologist at the
Research Triangle Institute with a PhD in environmental health sciences.
His work focuses on investigating the associations between global
climate change and human health outcomes, population vulnerability
assessments, health impact assessments, and qualitative and quantitative
integrated climate change and human health assessments. Prior to
joining RTI, he enjoyed a long career at the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, where he spent the final 11 years of his career as
Director of the Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects.
Under his direction, CDC’s Climate Change Program has funded intramural
and extramural research on the health impacts of weather and ecologic
changes associated with climate change and worked with state and city
agencies to assess and respond to public health vulnerabilities to
climate variability and change. Dr. McGeehin served as the co-chair of
the Health Sector of the First U.S. National Assessment of Climate
Change, working with a committee representing a wide range of
disciplines and opinions on climate change to successfully assess the
public health threats posed to the nation by a changing climate. He has
received numerous HHS and CDC Distinguished Service Awards during his
career. Dr. McGeehin received his BS in Biology from the University of
Scranton, his MSPH from the University of Colorado, and his PhD from
Colorado State University.
Philip Mote, Oregon State University, OR
Philip
W. Mote is a professor in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric
Sciences at Oregon State University, director of the Oregon Climate
Change Research Institute (occri.net) for the Oregon University System,
and director of Oregon Climate Services (state climate office).
Dr. Mote's current research interests include scenario development,
regional climate modeling with a super-ensemble generated by volunteers'
personal computers, and adaptation to climate change.
He is the co-leader of the NOAA-funded Climate Decision Support
Consortium for the Northwest, and also of the DOI-funded Climate Science
Center for the Northwest. He
led the Pacific Northwest contribution to the first U.S. National
Assessment and has served on numerous author teams for the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the National Research Council
(NRC), and others, including the NRC Panel on Adapting to the Impacts
of Climate Change. He earned a B.A. in physics from Harvard University
and a Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from the University of Washington.
Jayantha Obeysekera, South Florida Water Management District, FL
Jayantha Obeysekera is the Director of the Hydrologic & Environmental Systems Modeling Department at the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD).
Dr. Obeysekera holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from University of Sri
Lanka, M. Eng. from University of Roorkee, India, and a Ph.D. in Civil
Engineering from Colorado State University. Prior to joining SFWMD in 1987, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University.
During his career, Dr. Obeysekera has published nearly 40 research
articles in refereed journals and over 50 others in the field of water
resources. He has taught short courses in the countries of Dominican
Republic, Colombia, Spain, Sri Lanka, and U.S.
He has served as a member of National Research Council (NRC) committee
on Klamath River and as an advisory team member to review the computer
modeling of the New Orleans area in the aftermath of the hurricane
Katrina. He was a co-principal investigator for a US NSF funded project
on the investigation of the tsunami impacts in Sri Lanka. He is
currently serving as a member of two NRC committees on California
Bay-Delta.
His group has been instrumental in the application of climate outlook
and projections for planning and operations of the south Florida water
resources system. Presently, he is the technical lead for climate change and climate variability investigations at SFWMD.
Marie O’Neill, University of Michigan, MI
Marie
O'Neill's research interests include health effects of air pollution,
temperature extremes and climate change (mortality, asthma, hospital
admissions, and cardiovascular endpoints); environmental exposure
assessment; and socio-economic influences on health. She has worked for
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Pan American Health
Organization, in Mexico at the National Institute of Public Health and
the National Center for Environmental Health as a Fulbright Scholar, and
as a Research Fellow in Environmental Epidemiology at the Harvard
School of Public Health. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Health &
Society Scholar at University of Michigan from 2004 to 2006. O’Neill
earned a B.A. in Environmental Studies/Hispanic Literature and Culture
from Brown University in 1990, an M.S. in Environmental Health Sciences
from Harvard University in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the
University of North Carolina in 2000.
John Posey, East-West Gateway Council of Governments, MO
John
Posey has served in state and local government for more than 15 years,
and is currently the Director of Research for the East-West Gateway
Council of Governments, the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the
St. Louis region. Formerly he
was Director of Policy for the New Jersey Department of Human Services,
Division of Family Development, the state's public welfare agency.
He holds a Ph.D. from the Bloustein School of Planning and Public
Policy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Research
interests include adaptive capacity, vulnerable populations and urban
systems. Published research has
appeared in the journals Global Environmental Change and Public Works
Management and Policy, among other places.
Sara Pryor, Indiana University, IN
Sara C Pryor is Provost Professor of Atmospheric Science at Indiana University.
Her primary fields of research are climate variability, downscaling
methodologies and regional manifestations of climate change. She has
published nearly 100 journal articles in the field of climate research,
and has been PI on a number of grants from the National Science
Foundation and other agencies for regional climate analyses (e.g. Climate change impacts on regional wind climates).
Sara is editor of the book “Understanding climate change: Climate
variability, predictability and change in the Midwestern United States”
(published in 2009) and for the forthcoming book; “Understanding climate
change: Climate change impacts, risks, vulnerability and adaptation in
the Midwest”. Sara has collaborated on a number of North American and
European projects on the topic of climate change/variability and the
energy sector, and holds a guest appointment at the Danish Technical
University and the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Sara is a contributing author on the forthcoming IPCC report: Special
Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN)
(Chapter ‘Wind Energy’), serves as Editor of the American Geophysical
Union journal; Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, and is
currently engaged by the International Atomic Energy Authority under a
special services contract for analyses of climate change extremes and
critical energy infrastructure. She received a Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia.
Richard Schmalensee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA
Richard
Schmalensee is the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and
Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a member
of the MIT Energy Council, and Director of the MIT Center for Energy and
Environmental Policy Research. He served as the John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007.
He was the Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers with
primary responsibility for energy and environmental policy from 1989
through 1991. In that capacity,
he was involved in the design of the tradable allowance program to deal
with acid rain and in the development of climate policy.
Professor Schmalensee has published 11 books and more than 110
articles; his work focuses on industrial organization economics and its
applications to environmental, energy, antitrust, and regulatory policy.
He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and has served on the National Commission on Energy
Policy and the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association. He is a Director of Resources for the Future and a member of the National Academies Committee on America’s Climate Choices. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1970.
Henry G. Schwartz, HGS Consultants, LLC, MO
Dr.
Schwartz is an internationally recognized leader in environmental and
civil engineering. Now an independent consultant, he spent the most of
his career with the Sverdrup Corporation (now Jacobs Engineering) where
he became President and later Chairman of Sverdrup/Jacobs Civil, one of
the nation’s largest, most respected civil engineering firms. He is
President Emeritus of the American Society of Civil Engineers, served as
President of the Water Environment Federation, and was the founding
Chairman of the Water Environment Research Foundation. In recent years,
he has become an expert on adaptation to climate change especially as it
relates to the nation’s transportation system.
Dr. Schwartz chaired the NRC Committee on Climate Change and U.S.
Transportation, served on the Federal Advisory Committee for the Global
Climate Change Impacts in the United States, and on the Adaptation Panel
for the NRC report, America’s Climate Choices. Dr. Schwartz received
his PhD from the California Institute of Technology, his BS and MS from
Washington University in St. Louis.
He also attended Princeton University and Columbia University’s
Business Program. Recipient of many awards, Dr. Schwartz was inducted
into the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 and received the
Distinguished Alumni Award from the California Institute of Technology
in 2004.
Joel Smith, Stratus Consulting, CO
Joel
B. Smith, a Principal with Stratus Consulting, has been analyzing
climate change impacts and adaptation issues for over 20 years. He is
and has been a coordinating lead author or lead author on the Third,
Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change. Mr. Smith was a member of the National Academy of
Sciences “Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change.” He has
provided technical advice, guidance, and training on assessing climate
change impacts and adaptation to people around the world and to
international organizations, the U.S. government, states,
municipalities, and the non-profit and private sectors. Mr. Smith worked
for the U.S. EPA from 1984 to 1992, where he was the deputy director of
Climate Change Division. He joined Hagler Bailly in 1992 and Stratus
Consulting in 1998. He was a coeditor of The Potential Effects of Global
Climate Change on the United States (1989), As Climate Changes:
International Impacts and Implications (1995), Adaptation to Climate
Change: Assessments and Issues (1996), Climate Change, Adaptive
Capacity, and Development (2003), and The Impact of Climate Change on
Regional Systems: A Comprehensive Analysis of California (2006). He has
published more than thirty articles and chapters on climate change
impacts and adaptation in peer-reviewed journals and books and has
edited a number of books. Mr. Smith received a B.A. (magna cum laude)
from Williams College in 1979, and a Masters in Public Policy from the
University of Michigan in 1982.
Acting Federal Ex Officio Members
Kit Batten, United States Agency for International Development
Virginia Burkett, United States Department of the Interior
Gary Geernaert, United States Department of Energy
John Hall, United States Department of Defense
Alice Hill, United States Department of Homeland Security
Leonard Hirsch, Smithsonian Institution
Bill Hohenstein, United States Department of Agriculture
Patricia Jacobberger-Jellison, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Susan Ruffo, White House Council on Environmental Quality
Chester Koblinsky, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Linda Lawson, United States Department of Transportation
George Luber, United States Department of Health and Human Services
Andy Miller, United States Environmental Protection Agency
Robert O'Connor, National Science Foundation
Trigg Talley, United States Department of State
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