Climate Change Authors
From The Encyclopedia of Earth
November 20, 2008, 7:18 pm
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John Bruno John Bruno is a marine ecologist and conservation biologist. His research is focused on understanding and conserving the structure and dynamics of marine communities. Dr. Bruno works in a variety of marine habitats including coral reefs, coastal wetland and sand dune plant communities, oyster reefs and seagrass beds. Current projects in the Bruno lab at UNC include investigations of the link between rising ocean temperatures and regional-scale coral disease epidemics, the importance of predator biodiversity in food webs... Full bio | Articles (Climate Change Authors) |
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Dagmar Budikova Dagmar Budikova is an Associate Professor of Geography at Illinois State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Climatology from the University of Calgary, Canada. Dr. Budikova serves as the Coordinator of the Hydrogeology Graduate Program and GIS & Cartographic Services. Her work in climatology has contributed to our knowledge of climate variability and change across North America. Dr. Budikova's doctoral work explored the climatic impacts associated with the El Niño/Southern Oscillation phenomenon across western Canada. {C}Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]2] |
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Robert Corell Robert Corell is Director of the Global Change Program at the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, and a Senior Policy Fellow at the Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society. He is currently actively engaged in research concerned with both the science of global change and the interface between science and public policy. He is particularly interested in global and regional climate change and related environmental issues, and in the science to facilitate... {C}Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]3] |
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James Crabbe James Crabbe is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies and Science and Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Bedfordshire, leading and managing the continuing evolution of a successful large Faculty with six departments, three Research Institutes, and many National and International partners. He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University, and Visiting Professor at the University of Reading, and at Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai in China. {C}Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]4] |
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Hallie Eakin Hallie Eakin is an assistant professor in geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research explores the vulnerability of rural populations to uncertainty and risk originating from environmental change and the global economy. Her work addresses the adaptive capacities of farm systems in Latin America, the institutional constraints to reducing vulnerability and the challenge of achieving food security in the context of climate change. {C}Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]5]
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James Rodger Fleming James Rodger Fleming is a historian of science and technology and Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Colby College, Maine. His teaching bridges the sciences and the humanities, and his research interests involve the history of the geophysical sciences, especially meteorology and climate change. He currently holds the Roger Revelle Fellowship in Global Environmental Stewardship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is a Public Policy Scholar... {C}Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]6]
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Jean-Pierre Gattuso Jean-Pierre Gattuso is a Research Professor at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (National Center for Scientific Research, France) and is based at the Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, a marine station operated by the Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie (Paris 6) in Southern France. His research interests are related to: (1) the carbon and carbonate cycles in coastal ecosystems; and (2) the response of marine organisms and ecosystems to global environmental changes. Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]7]
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Howard Hanson Howard Hanson is associate vice president for research at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and is also a professor of geosciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. In his role as associate vice president, Dr. Hanson serves as an advocate for both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research programs at FAU. An aptitude for math and science in primary and secondary school led Dr. Hanson to Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he participated in the Edmund J. James Scholar Program... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]8]
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Jonathan M. Harris Jonathan M. Harris holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He is the author of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach (Houghton Mifflin, 2002). He is co-editor of the Frontier Issues in Economic Thought volumes A Survey of Sustainable Development, A Survey of Ecological Economics, and Human Well-Being and Economic Goals. He is also editor of Rethinking Sustainability: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions; author of World Agriculture and the Environment... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]9]
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Virginia Haufler Virginia Haufler (Ph.D., Cornell, 1991) is Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. She is an expert in the fields of international relations, international political economy, and business and world politics. She has presented her work at numerous conferences and workshops, conducted interviews for radio and newspapers, and consulted for the United Nations and not-for-profit organizations. From 1999 to 2000, Haufler was a Senior Associate... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]10]
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Andrew J. Hoffman Andrew J. Hoffman is the Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Dr. Hoffman’s research deals with the nature and dynamics of change within institutional and cultural systems. He applies that research toward understanding the cultural and managerial implications of environmental protection and social sustainability for industry. Dr. Hoffman’s books include Organizations, Policy and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]11]
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Robert Kaufmann Robert Kaufmann is a Professor in the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies and the Department of Geography at Boston University. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on three areas; world oil markets, development and analysis of policies to slow the emission of gases that contribute to global climate change, and ecological economics. In each area, his research makes progress by integrating theory and techniques developed in the social and natural sciences. Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]12]
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Rattan Lal Rattan Lal has a B.Sc. (Agriculture), 1963, PAU, India; M. Sc. (Soils), 1965, IARI, India; and a Ph.D. (Soils), 1968, OSU, Columbus, Ohio, USA. He currently holds positions as Director, Carbon Management & Sequestration Center, OARDC/OSU, Columbus, Ohio; and Director, South Asia Initiative, OARDC/FAES, Columbus, Ohio. He was a Lead Author of the U.N. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, is President of the Soil Science Society of America, and Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopedia of Soil Science. Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]13]
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David L. Levy David L. Levy is currently a professor of management at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His research examines the intersection of business strategy, technology, and politics in the international arena. In the last few years, he has studied the engagement of U.S. and European multinationals with the emerging international regime to control greenhouse gases. Levy has undertaken research projects in cooperation with the OECD, the UN Centre on Transnational Corporations, the U.S. EPA... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]14]
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Susanne C. Moser Susanne C. Moser is an action researcher whose work focuses on the societal impacts of, and responses to, climate change, particularly in coastal areas, and on how to communicate global warming in a way that facilitates the necessary social changes. A geographer by training (Ph.D. from Clark University, 1997), her work over the past 15 years has focused on interdisciplinary challenges such as the impacts of climate change and sea-level rise on coastal areas, community and state responses to such global change hazards... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]15]
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Mohan Munasinghe Mohan Munasinghe has postgraduate degrees in physics, engineering and economics, from Cambridge University (UK), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), McGill University (Canada), and Concordia University (Canada). Presently, he is Chairman, Munasinghe Institute of Development (MIND); Vice Chair, U.N. U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Geneva; Energy Advisor to the Government of Sri Lanka; and Visiting Professor, United Nations University, Tokyo. Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]16]
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Stephen Nodvin Stephen Nodvin serves as Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Science and is an Associate Professor of Natural Sciences at Wentworth Institute of technology in Boston, Massachusetts. His background is in science and technology and he has held leadership positions in academia, government, and business. He is a member of the Liberal Arts Committee of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS). He is also a member of the "Deans Think Tank" of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE). Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]17]
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Rajendra Pachauri Rajendra K. Pachauri is the founding Director of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), and since 2002 has been the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme. To acknowledge his immense contributions to the field of energy and environment, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 2001, one of India’s highest civilian awards. Full bio
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Michael Pidwirny Michael Pidwirny is an Associate Professor of Physical Geography at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He has general research interests in the following areas of study: species interactions in wetland plant communities; spatial patterns and community structure in vegetation; climate change and its influence on the distribution of species and communities; land-use and environmental change in the Thompson-Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada; land-use change and biodiversity issues... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]18]
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Simone Pulver Simone Pulver’s research focuses on global environmental governance, firm-environmental decision-making, and environmental social movements. In particular, she has studied the roles played by transnational oil corporations and transnational environmental advocacy networks in the United Nations climate change negotiations. Pulver joined the faculty of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University in 2003. She holds a joint appointment as an assistant professor (research) of international studies... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]19]
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Barry G. Rabe Barry G. Rabe is a professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He also holds appointments in the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Program in the Environment and serves as a non-resident senior fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Rabe is the author of four books, including Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Evolving Politics of American Climate Change Policy, which received the Lynton Keith Caldwell Award... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]20]
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Priyantha Ranjan Priyantha Ranjan is working as a Post Doctoral Researcher in the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Japan. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from Tohoku University (2005), a Master of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand (2002) and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (1999). He has worked as a lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]21]
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Dave Reay Dave Reay was born in Hampshire, in 1972. He studied Marine Biology at Liverpool University and graduated in 1994. He went on to gain a Ph.D. at Essex University studying the response of Southern Ocean algae and bacteria to temperature change. After gaining his doctorate he continued working as a post-doc at Essex, investigating the impact of land-use on the soil methane sink. In 2001 he moved to Edinburgh University to investigate emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide from agriculture... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]22]
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Henrik Selin Henrik Selin is an assistant professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University, where he conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policymaking on environment and sustainable development. His paper, co-authored with Stacy D. VanDeveer, presents results from an ongoing research project on North American climate change policymaking and action at national, regional and local levels. Prior to his current faculty position, he spent three years as a Wallenberg Post-doctoral Fellow... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]23]
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Raj K. Shrestha Raj K. Shrestha is a Research Scientist in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at the Ohio State University. His research focuses on technologies associated with greenhouse gas emissions, climate change and terrestrial carbon sequestration. Technologies associated with enhancing carbon pool for the restoration of reclaimed mined soil have been one of the recent focuses of his work. Dr. Shrestha is also involved in research related to nitrogen recycling, non-point source pollution such as nitrate leaching... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]24]
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Sjaak Slanina Sjaak Slanina held a position at the Netherlands Energy Research Foundation as head of the environmental research department and as senior research scientist in atmospheric chemistry and air pollution. He has over 30 years experience in atmospheric science with emphasis on deposition and aerosol research and instrument development and analytical techniques. He worked as part-time full professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences of Wageningen University, The Netherlands until 2005... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]25]
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Jennie C. Stephens Jennie C. Stephens is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Clark University. Her research focuses on technologies and policies associated with confronting global climate change. She has particular interest in energy technologies that have potential to satisfy increasing energy demand in both developed and developing countries without increasing carbon dioxide emissions and the policies that could promote and support the deployment of these technologies. Technologies associated with capturing and storing carbon dioxide... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]26]
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Peter Stoett Peter Stoett (Ph.D., Queen’s, 1994) is associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He specializes in global environmental and human security issues, including Canadian environmental governance. Recent publications include (ed.) International Ecopolitical Theory: Critical Reflections (UBC Press, forthcoming), (ed.) Bilateral Ecopolitics: Canadian-American Environmental Relations (Ashgate, forthcoming)... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]27]
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Stacy D. VanDeveer Stacy D. VanDeveer is an associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include international environmental policymaking and its domestic impacts, the connections between environmental and security issues, and the role of expertise in policymaking. Before taking a faculty position, he spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]28]
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Maggie Walser Maggie Walser, originally from Eureka, CA, completed her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry with the Aerosol Photochemistry Group at the University of California, Irvine. As a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, her research focused on the composition and photochemistry of secondary organic aerosol, as well as biogenic emissions of atmospherically relevant trace gases. While at Irvine, Maggie received the Chemistry Department's prestigious Edward K.C. Lee Award... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]29]
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Spencer R. Weart Spencer R. Weart is Director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) in College Park, Maryland, USA. Originally trained as a physicist, he is now a noted historian specializing in the history of modern physics and geophysics. Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1942, he received a B.A. in Physics at Cornell University in 1963 and a Ph.D. in Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1968. He then worked for three years at the California Institute of Technology... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]30]
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Deborah Williams Deborah Williams has been actively involved in conservation and sustainable community issues for over 35 years, and is now focusing on global warming. She received her B.A. from Pomona College, summa cum laude, with a concentration in Biology and Economics. Subsequently she graduated from Harvard Law School, with honors, and was the principal founder of and co-editor-in-chief of the Harvard Environmental Law Review. After serving in the Department of Interior’s Solicitors Honors Program... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]31]
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Richard Zeebe Richard Zeebe is a faculty member in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii. His research focuses on the global carbon cycle, biogeochemistry and paleoceanography. His interests range from physico-chemical properties of molecules and the biogeochemistry of foraminifera to the scale of the global ocean. Together with Dieter Wolf-Gladrow he has published a book in 2001 on the CO2 chemistry in seawater which has been referred to as the CO2 survival kit... Full bio | [[Articles (Climate Change Authors)]32]
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