IWR Scientist Shares 2007 Nobel Prize for Role with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Dr. Eugene Z. Stakhiv

ALEXANDRIA, VA – December 21, 2007. The Institute for Water Resources is proud to congratulate Dr. Eugene Z. Stakhiv for his role as an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) member and joint winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize. The IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore received the 2007 Nobel Prize “for their efforts to build and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” The prize was presented by the Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway, on December 10, 2007.

At IWR, Dr. Stakhiv is currently serving as Co-Director of the International Upper Great Lakes Study Board on behalf of the International Joint Commission. He has been an active contributor to the IPCC, co-chairing the first IPCC Water Resources Group, serving as lead author in the second and third IPCC reports, and participating as a reviewer of the fourth IPCC report.

“It is an honor and a thrill to be part of the IPCC membership sharing in the award,” Stakhiv said. Since its founding in 1988 in Geneva, Switzerland, the IPCC has published a series of scientific reports—the consensus of approximately 2,000 scientists from 120 countries—that have “created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming,” according to the Nobel citation.

Dr. Stakhiv received his Ph.D. in Water Resources Systems from Johns Hopkins University. He has enjoyed a 38-year career with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has worked at IWR since 1976 on a number of national-scope domestic water resources planning and policy studies as well as a wide variety of international water-related assignments. His international work includes an extended overseas tour in Iraq as the inaugural senior U.S. advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources.

In 2004 he served as the acting senior science advisor at the U.S. Mission to UNESCO in Paris, France. In 2006, Dr. Stakhiv was appointed by the United Nations Director General to the Advisory Board of UNESCO’s International Center for Water Hazards and Risk Management (ICHARM), located in Tsukuba, Japan, and he was subsequently elected ICHARM Board Chairman. He recently assumed the Co-Directorship of the International Joint Commission’s Upper Great Lakes Study, after successfully co-directing the completion of the five-year Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River Study Board.

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