|
|
Biographical Sketches of Speakers, Moderators, and Panel Chairs and Vice-Chairs
Speakers and Moderators
Albert Carnesale, UCLA
Chair, Committee on America's Climate Choices
Albert Carnesale is Chancellor Emeritus and Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was Chancellor of the University from 1997 through 2006, and now serves as Professor of Public Policy and of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His research and teaching focus on public policy issues having substantial scientific and technological dimensions, and he is the author or co-author of six books and more than 100 articles on a wide range of subjects, including national security strategy, arms control, nuclear proliferation, the effects of technological change on foreign and defense policy, domestic and international energy issues, and higher education. He chairs the National Academies Committees on Conventional Prompt Global Strike Capability and on Nuclear Forensics. In addition, he is a member of the FBI Director's Advisory Board on National Security and Higher Education; the Mission Committees of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory; the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Terrorism, Proliferation and Weapons of Mass Destruction; the Board of Directors of Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; and the Advisory Board of the RAND Corporation's Center for Global Risk and Security. Prior to joining UCLA, he was at Harvard for 23 years, serving as Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Provost of the University. Before that, he served in government and in industry. Dr. Carnesale holds bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Ralph J. Cicerone, National Academy of Sciences
Ralph J. Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences, is an atmospheric scientist whose research in atmospheric chemistry and climate change has involved him in shaping science and environmental policy at the highest levels nationally and internationally. His research was recognized on the citation for the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to University of California, Irvine colleague F. Sherwood Rowland. The Franklin Institute recognized his fundamental contributions to the understanding of greenhouse gases and ozone depletion by selecting Dr. Cicerone as the 1999 laureate for the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science. One of the most prestigious American awards in science, the Bower also recognized his public policy leadership in protecting the global environment. The American Geophysical Union awarded him its 2002 Roger Revelle Medal for outstanding research contributions to the understanding of Earth's atmospheric processes, biogeochemical cycles, or other key elements of the climate system. Dr. Cicerone is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome), and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has served as president of the American Geophysical Union, the world's largest society of earth scientists, and he received its James B. MacElwane Award in 1979 for outstanding contributions to geophysics. He has published about 100 refereed papers and 200 conference papers, and has presented invited testimony to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on a number of occasions. Prior to his election as President of the NAS, he was on the faculty of the University of California, Irvine where he served as founding Chair of the Department of Earth System Science, Dean of the School of Physical Sciences, and Chancellor.
The Honorable Alan B. Mollohan
Congressman Alan B. Mollohan (D-WV) was sworn in as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1983, and has served in each successive Congress. He is a member of the House Appropriations Committee, which determines the funding for thousands of government programs totaling 40 percent of the federal budget. The Congressman serves on three subcommittees of House Appropriations, and he is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. The Subcommittee funds the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Science Foundation (NSF), among others. Congressman Mollohan is also a member of the Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies and the Subcommittee on Homeland Security. His top priority is economic development in the First District of West Virginia. He works to defend its traditional industries and to diversify its base through high-tech, aerospace and government-service activities. The Congressman was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, on May 14, 1943. A graduate of Greenbrier Military School, the College of William and Mary, and West Virginia University's College of Law, he began his legal career in 1970 with a Fairmont firm.
Jane Lubchenco, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Dr. Jane Lubchenco, a marine ecologist and environmental scientist, is the ninth Administrator of NOAA. Her scientific expertise includes oceans, climate change, and interactions between the environment and human well-being. Raised in Denver, she received a B.A. degree in biology from Colorado College, a M.S. in zoology from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in ecology from Harvard University. While teaching at Harvard and Oregon State University, she was actively engaged in discovery, synthesis, communication and application of scientific knowledge. Dr. Lubchenco has studied marine ecosystems around the world and championed the importance of science and its relevance to policy making and human well-being. A former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Council for Science and the Ecological Society of America, she served 10 years on the National Science Board. From 1999-2009 she led PISCO, a large 4-university, interdisciplinary team of scientists investigating the large marine ecosystem along the coasts of Washington, Oregon and California. Dr. Lubchenco is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Royal Society. She has received numerous awards including a MacArthur (‘genius’) Fellowship, nine honorary degrees, the 2002 Heinz Award in the Environment, the 2005 AAAS Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology and the 2008 Zayed International Prize for the Environment. Dr. Lubchenco co-founded three organizations that communicate scientific knowledge to the public, policy makers, the media and industry. She co-chaired the Synthesis for Business and Industry of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, an international scientific evaluation of the consequences of environmental changes to human well-being. She also served on the Pew Oceans Commission and the Joint Oceans Commission Initiative and the Aspen Institute Arctic Commission.
John Holdren, Office of Science and Technology Policy (NAS Member)--Invited
John P. Holdren was recently confirmed as the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and in this role is the chief science advisor to President Barack Obama. Before his appointment, Dr. Holdren was the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He also served as Professor of Environmental Science and Policy in Harvard’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and is a past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Holdren was educated at MIT and Stanford in aeronautics/astronautics (fluid dynamics) and theoretical plasma physics, receiving his PhD in 1970. After brief stints at the Livermore Lab and Caltech, he co-founded in 1973 and co-led until 1996 the campus-wide, interdisciplinary, graduate-degree program in energy and resources at UC Berkeley – the Energy and Resources Group (ERG). His work has focused on causes and consequences of global environmental change, fusion science and technology, comparative analysis of energy options, ways to reduce the dangers from nuclear weapons and materials, and the interaction of content and process in science and technology policy. He has worked to bridge the physical and social sciences, developing a framework for integrated analysis of the environmental and human implications of growth in population and technology. Dr. Holdren is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship (1981-86), the Volvo Environment Prize (1993), the Tyler Prize for Environment (2000), and the John Heinz Prize for Public Policy (2001), among other awards.
Jim Mulva, ConocoPhillips
James J. (Jim) Mulva is chairman and chief executive officer of ConocoPhillips. Mr. Mulva served as president and chief executive officer of ConocoPhillips from 2002 to 2004. Prior to that, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of Phillips Petroleum Company from 1999 to 2002. He had served as Phillips' president and chief operating officer since May 1994 and executive vice president since January 1994. He had been senior vice president in 1993 and chief financial officer since 1990, at which time he joined the company's management committee. Mr. Mulva currently serves as a director for General Electric. He also is a member of The Business Council, as well as the Board of Visitors for the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Born in 1946, Mulva is from Green Bay, Wis. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1968 with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in business administration finance in 1969. Immediately after graduating, Mulva served as a U.S. Navy officer until beginning his career with Phillips in 1973.
The Honorable Bart Gordon
Congressman Bart Gordon (D-TN) was first elected to Congress in 1984. He serves as the Chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee, and he is also a senior member of House Energy and Commerce Committee, where serves on two subcommittees (Health, and Telecommunications and the Internet). Congressman Gordon was the author of landmark legislation, the America COMPETES Act, signed into law in August 2007, designed to improve math and science education, increase the America’s investment in scientific research, and help our country achieve energy independence. Congressman Gordon was born in Murfreesboro, TN. His father and grandfathers were farmers, and his mother was a teacher in the Rutherford County schools. His grandfather, Robert Sr., helped form several local rural organizations aimed at improving the community and it was from his grandfather’s efforts that Congressman Gordon learned the value of giving back to one’s community. After graduating from Central High School in 1967, he worked as staff in a congressional campaign and decided Congress was where he could best serve his community and the greater Middle Tennessee area. Congressman Gordon graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1971 with honors and from the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville in 1973. He served in the Army Reserves from 1971-1972. From 1974 to 1983, Congressman Gordon practiced law in Murfreesboro and worked for the Tennessee state Democratic Party. Across his 12 terms in Congress, he has remained committed to finding bipartisan solutions to problems.
Charles O. Holliday, Jr., DuPont
Member, Committee on America's Climate Choices
Charles O. Holliday Jr., is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of DuPont. Prior to becoming DuPont's CEO on February 1, 1998 and chairman on January 1, 1999, Mr. Holliday, rose through manufacturing positions; led DuPont's global Nomex and Kevlar businesses; and, from 1990 until 1997, served in a series of leadership positions in Asia culminating with his appointment as chairman of Asia Pacific. He was elected president of DuPont in 1997. Mr. Holliday started at DuPont in the summer of 1970 at the company's Old Hickory site after receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Tennessee. He is a licensed Professional Engineer. Mr. Holliday is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, and he is past chairman of: the Business Roundtable's Task Force for Environment, Technology and Economy; the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD); The Business Council; and the Society of Chemical Industry, American Section. Mr. Holliday serves on the board of directors of Deere & Co. and is chair of the board of directors of Catalyst. In addition, he is chairman of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and is a founding member of the International Business Council. He co-authored Walking the Talk book which details the business case for sustainable development and corporate responsibility.
Susan Solomon, NOAA
Member, Committee on America's Climate Choices
Susan Solomon (NAS) is a Senior Scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado. She is well known for having pioneered the theory explaining why the ozone hole occurs in Antarctica, and obtaining some of the first chemical measurements that helped to establish the chlorofluorocarbons as its cause. In March of 2000, she received the National Medal of Science which is the highest scientific honor in the US. She has also been named a knight 'chevalier' in the French Legion of Honor is a recipient of the prestigious Blue Planet Prize in Japan, and the highest honor of the French Academy of Sciences, the Grande Medaille. A glacier in Antarctica has also been named after her, Solomon Glacier. She served as co-chair of the climate science group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and provided key leadership to the 2007 comprehensive scientific assessment of climate change for the public and for policymakers. In 2008, the IPCC and Albert Gore, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. Time magazine named Solomon as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008.
Stephen Schneider, Stanford University
Stephen H. Schneider is the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Biology, and a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. He served as an NCAR scientist from 1973-1996, where he co-founded the Climate Project. He focuses on climate change science, integrated assessment of ecological and economic impacts of human-induced climate change, and identifying viable climate policies and technological solutions. He has consulted for federal agencies and White House staff in six administrations. Involved with the IPCC since 1988, he was Coordinating Lead Author, WG II, Chapter 19, "Assessing Key Vulnerabilities and the Risk from Climate Change" and a core writer for the Fourth Assessment Synthesis Report. He along with four generations of IPCC authors received a collective Nobel Peace Prize for their joint efforts in 2007. Elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2002, Dr. Schneider received the American Association for the Advancement of Science/ Westinghouse Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology and a MacArthur Fellowship for integrating and interpreting the results of global climate research. Founder/ editor of Climatic Change, he has authored or co-authored over 500 books, scientific papers, proceedings, legislative testimonies, edited books and chapters, reviews and editorials. Dr. Schneider counsels policy makers, corporate executives, and non-profit stakeholders about using risk management strategies in climate-policy decision-making, given the uncertainties in future projections of global climate change and related impacts. He is actively engaged in improving public understanding of science and the environment through extensive media communication and public outreach.
Fred Krupp, Environmental Defense Fund
In his 24 years as head of Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp has overseen the growth of EDF from a small nonprofit with budget of $3 million into a recognized worldwide leader in the environmental movement. Under his direction, EDF's full-time staff has increased from 50 to 400, membership has expanded from 40,000 to more than 500,000 and new offices have opened in Raleigh, Austin, Boston, Sacramento and Beijing, China. Krupp is widely recognized as the foremost champion of harnessing market forces for environmental ends, such as the market-based acid rain reduction plan in the 1990 Clean Air Act that The Economist hailed as "the greatest green success story of the past decade." Today, this approach has become the leading model for solving the problem of global warming. Krupp broke new ground by engaging American companies to lessen their impact on the environment. Strategic partnerships with McDonald's, FedEx, and DuPont, among others, have resulted in the elimination of millions of pounds of waste, the adoption of hybrid delivery vehicles, and an accord to reduce the environmental risks of nanotechnology. He also helped launch a corporate coalition, the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, whose Fortune 500 members--Alcoa, BP, Caterpillar, GE and dozens more--have called for strict limits on global warming pollution. The New York Times says, "Krupp has made a career of successfully pushing companies to make tough environmental changes." (Environmental Defense Fund accepts no payments or contributions from its partners.) Krupp is coauthor, with Miriam Horn, of New York Times Best Seller, Earth: The Sequel--The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming, published in March 2008 by W.W. Norton. The book offers a behind-the-scenes look at the inventors and entrepreneurs developing new clean-energy technologies that could transform the multi-trillion-dollar world energy economy and solve global warming. Educated at Yale and the University of Michigan Law School, Fred Krupp lives with his family in Connecticut. An avid rower, he won a gold medal in the 2006 world rowing championship sponsored by FISA, the international rowing federation. He has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal and The New Republic and in 2007 was among 16 people named America's Best Leaders by U.S. News and World Report.
Henry Jacoby, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Henry D. Jacoby is Professor of Management and Co-Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. The Program integrates natural and social science aspects of global climate change, and policy and management studies, that are needed to support the development, negotiation, and implementation of a domestic and global response. He is the former Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Associate Director of the MIT Energy Laboratory, and Chair of the MIT Faculty. Earlier he was Director of the Harvard Environmental Systems Program. Dr. Jacoby has made contributions to the study of policy and planning in the areas of energy, natural resources, and the environment. He was a member of the National Petroleum Council, and he served on the Climatic Impact Committee of the National Academy of Sciences and the AAAS Panel on Climate Change and Water Resources. He was also a member of the National Academy Committees on Alternative Energy R&D Strategies and Metrics for Global Change Research. He currently serves on the Scientific Committee of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. His current research is focused on economic analysis of climate change and greenhouse gas mitigation, and the integration of this work with the natural science of the issue.
Lorents G. Lorentsen, Oganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Lorents Lorentsen is Director for Environment of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. Prior to joining OECD in June 2003, he served for eleven years at the Ministry of Finance, Norway. His position as Acting Secretary-General succeeded four years as Deputy Secretary-General, where he led groups on a number of environmental and pension policy issues, after heading the Department of Policy Analysis and Planning, the Economics Policy Department and the Budget Department. Before joining the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Lorentsen served as Director of Research, Head of Unit and researcher in the Research Department of Statistics Norway from 1974 to 1991. He was responsible for work on natural resource accounts, and analyses of energy consumption and pollution integrated in macroeconomic forecasting. He has written many publications on issues such as natural resource accounting, modelling of energy markets, multi-sectoral growth models, and on integrating environmental issues in macroeconomic modelling and analysis. He thus combines a prominent background as researcher in environmental economics, econometric modelling and macroeconomics with extensive experience as manager and economic policy advisor.
William Chameides, Duke University
Vice-Chair, Committee on America's Climate Choices
William Chameides is the Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, as position he has held since 2007. Prior to joining Duke he spent 3 years as the chief scientist of the Environmental Defense Fund, following more than 30 years in academia as a professor, researcher, teacher, and mentor. Chameides' research focuses on the atmospheric sciences, elucidating the causes of and remedies for global, regional, and urban environmental change and identifying pathways towards a more sustainable future. Specifically his research helped lay the groundwork for our understanding of the photochemistry of the lower atmosphere, elucidated the importance of nitrogen oxides emission controls in the mitigation of urban and regional photochemical smog, and the impact of regional air pollution on global food production. He has led two major, multi-institutional research projects: the Southern Oxidants Study, a research program focused on understanding the causes and remedies for air pollution in the Southern United States; and CHINA-MAP, an international research program studying the effects of environmental change on agriculture in China. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, fellow of the American Geophysical Union and recipient of the American Geophysical Union's MacElwane Award. Chameides has served on numerous national and international committees and task forces and in recognition was named a National Associate of the National Academies for "extraordinary service."
Howard Frumkin, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Howard Frumkin is Director of the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is an internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist, and epidemiologist. Before joining the CDC in September, 2005, Dr. Frumkin was Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Emory Medical School. He founded and directed Emory's Environmental and Occupational Medicine Consultation Clinic and the Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit. Currently serving on the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Dr. Frumkin's interests include public health aspects of urban sprawl and the built environment; air pollution; metal and PCB toxicity; climate change; health benefits of contact with nature; and environmental and occupational health policy, especially regarding minority workers and communities, and those in developing nations. He is the author or co-author of over 160 scientific journal articles and chapters, and his books include Urban Sprawl and Public Health (Island Press, 2004, co-authored with Larry Frank and Dick Jackson; named a Top Ten Book of 2005 by Planetizen, the Planning and Development Network), Emerging Illness and Society (Johns Hopkins Press, 2004, co-edited with Randall Packard, Peter Brown, and Ruth Berkelman), Environmental Health: From Global to Local (Jossey-Bass, 2005; winner of the Association of American Publishers 2005 Award for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing in Allied/Health Sciences), Safe and Healthy School Environments (Oxford University Press, 2006, co-edited with Leslie Rubin and Robert Geller), and Green Healthcare Institutions: Health, Environment, and Economics (National Academies Press, 2007, co-authored with Christine Coussens). Dr. Frumkin received his A.B. from Brown University, his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. from Harvard, his Internal Medicine training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Cambridge Hospital, and his Occupational Medicine training at Harvard. He is Board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Carter Roberts, World Wildlife Fund
Carter Roberts is President and CEO of World Wildlife Fund-United States (WWF-US). WWF's mission is to advance solutions that conserve the diversity of life on Earth while meeting the needs of people. WWF, the world's largest network of international conservation organizations, works across 100 countries and enjoys the support of 5 million members worldwide, 1.2 million of which are in the U.S. Since joining WWF in 2004, Roberts has built a new strategy for the organization, driving global teams that integrate policy, markets and field conservation initiatives in 20 of the most important ecosystems around the world. Under his leadership, WWF has forged partnerships with institutions like The Coca-Cola Company, Walmart, Mars and CARE. Roberts helped advance the Natural Capital Project, a partnership between WWF, Stanford University and The Nature Conservancy to establish the economic value of intact ecosystems as a tool for creating solutions for their conservation. He serves as a key member of WWF's global team facilitating bi- and multilateral negotiations leading to a global agreement on climate change. Prior to joining WWF, Roberts held a range of management positions at Procter & Gamble and Gillette, and worked for 15 years at The Nature Conservancy, first leading their Massachusetts chapter and then creating post-doctoral science programs and opening offices across Central America. Roberts serves on the boards of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, a collaboration between Imperial College and the London School of Economics; InterAction, a consortium of development and environmental NGOs seeking a holistic approach to foreign assistance; and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy at Duke University. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Princeton University.
Eileen Claussen, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Eileen Claussen is the President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Strategies for the Global Environment. Ms. Claussen is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. Prior to joining the Department of State, Ms. Claussen served for three years as a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Environmental Affairs at the National Security Council. She has also served as Chairman of the United Nations Multilateral Montreal Protocol Fund. Ms. Claussen was Director of Atmospheric Programs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she was responsible for activities related to the depletion of the ozone layer; Title IV of the Clean Air Act; and the EPA's energy efficiency programs, including the Green Lights program and the Energy Star program. Ms. Claussen is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Singapore Energy Advisory Committee, and the Ecomagination Advisory Board. She is the recipient of the Department of State's Career Achievement Award and the Distinguished Executive Award for Sustained Extraordinary Accomplishment. She also served as the Timothy Atkeson Scholar in Residence at Yale University.
R. James Woolsey, VantagePoint Venture Partners
Mr. Woolsey is a Venture Partner for VantagePoint Venture Partners. He is also the Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; a Senior Executive Advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton; Of Counsel to the law firm of Goodwin Procter; and chairman of the Strategic Advisory Group of Paladin Capital Corporation. Before he joined VantagePoint in March 2008, Mr. Woolsey was a Partner with Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, Virginia, specializing in energy and security issues, and prior to that a partner with Shea & Gardner in Washington D.C., specializing in commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution (arbitration and mediation). He practiced at the firm for 22 years on four different occasions and served five times in the federal government for a total of 12 years, holding Presidential appointments in two Democratic and two Republican administrations. He served as Director of Central Intelligence (1993-95), Ambassador and Chief Negotiator for the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty in Vienna (1989-91), Delegate at Large (on a part-time basis) to the Strategic Arms Reductions Talks (START) and the Defense and Space Talks in Geneva (1983-86), Under Secretary of the Navy (1977-79), and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate committee on Armed Services (1970-73). He has served on numerous corporate and non-profit boards. From time to time he speaks publicly and contributes articles to newspapers and other periodicals on such issues as national security, energy, foreign affairs and intelligence.
Robert H. Socolow, Princeton University
Committee on America's Climate Choices Member
Robert H. Socolow is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, where he teaches in both the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He was the Director of the University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies from 1979 to 1997. His current research focuses on the characteristics of a global energy system that would be responsive to global and local environmental and security constraints. His specific areas of interest include the capture of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and its storage in geological formations, nuclear power, energy efficiency in buildings, and the accelerated deployment of advanced technologies in developing countries. He was editor of Annual Review of Energy and the Environment from 1992 to 2002. He is a National Associate of the U.S. National Academies and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was awarded the 2003 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award by the American Physical Society and received the 2005 Axel Axelson Johnson Commemorative Lecture award from the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden. Socolow earned a B.A. in 1959 and Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics in 1964 from Harvard University.
Jonathan Wiener, Duke University
Jonathan B. Wiener is the William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment, and Professor of Public Policy Studies at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, at Duke University. In 2008, Jonathan Wiener served as President of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). He is the first law professor or lawyer to hold this post. In 2003 he received the Chauncey Starr Young Risk Analyst Award from the SRA for the most exceptional contributions to the field of risk analysis by a scholar aged 40 or under. Since 2002 he has also been a University Fellow of Resources for the Future (RFF), the environmental economics think tank. He has been a visiting professor at: Sciences Po (2008), the University of Chicago Law School (2007), l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and le Centre International de Recherche sur L'Environnement et le Développement (CIRED) in Paris (2005-06), and Harvard Law School (1999). He has taught courses on Environmental Law, Risk Regulation in the US and Europe, Climate Change, Mass Torts, International Environmental Law, Property Law, and Global Property Regimes. From 2000-05 he served as the founding Faculty Director of the Duke Center for Environmental Solutions, now expanded into the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, of which he is now chair of the faculty oversight committee. Before coming to Duke, he worked on U.S. and international environmental policy at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and at the US Department of Justice, serving in both the first Bush and Clinton administrations. He helped negotiate the Framework Convention on Climate Change, and attended the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. In 1993 he helped draft Executive Order 12866 on Regulatory Review. Professor Wiener clerked for Judge (now U.S. Supreme Court Justice) Stephen G. Breyer on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston in 1988-89, and for Chief Judge Jack B. Weinstein on the U.S. District Court in New York in 1987-88. He received his A.B. in economics (1984) and J.D. (1987) from Harvard University, where he was a research assistant at the NBER, an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and assistant coach of the 1985 intercollegiate debate champions.
Jerry Melillo, Marine Biological Laboratory
Dr. Melillo's research team focuses on understanding the impacts of human activities on the biogeochemistry of ecological systems using a combination of field studies and simulation modeling. Their field studies include two soil warming experiments at the Harvard Forest in central Massachusetts. They have developed and use a simulation model, the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM), to consider the impacts of various aspects of global change (climate, chemistry of the atmosphere and precipitation, land cover and land use) on the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems across the globe. TEM is part of the Integrated Global Systems Model, an integrated assessment model, based at MIT. Dr. Melillo received his Ph.D. and M.F.S from Yale University in 1977 and 1972, respectively. He also received his M.A.T. and B.A. at Wesleyan University in 1968 and 1965, respectively.
Jonathan Schrag, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Inc.
Jonathan Schrag joined RGGI, Inc. as Executive Director in May 2008. Before RGGI, Mr. Schrag was a partner of Hudson Strategic Energy Advisors LLC, where he worked with the state governments of Wyoming, West Virginia, and Montana and the Western Governors Association on energy, climate and the environment. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Schrag was an Assistant Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Executive Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, where he ran programs on carbon capture and sequestration, nuclear energy, carbon policy, and renewable energy technologies. Mr. Schrag also served as Research Staff with the Global Roundtable on Climate Change and as a Research Associate for Columbia University’s Center for Carbon Management. Mr. Schrag earned AB and AM degrees from Harvard University and received a Fulbright scholarship for research in the history of electrification. He lives in New York City.
Steve Nicholas, Institute for Sustainable Communities
Steve Nicholas rejoined ISC as the Director of Climate Programs in October 2008. Prior to coming back to ISC, he was Director of the City of Seattle Office of Sustainability & Environment for 8 years, where he lead several urban sustainability initiatives, including the development and implementation of the Seattle Climate Protection Initiative, winner of the 2007 Innovations in American Government Award. He co-authored Seattle’s first-ever climate action plan, as well as the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, which sparked a national movement of more than 850 mayors taking local action on global warming and demanding stronger federal action. He also staffed the Mayor’s Green Ribbon Commission on Climate Protection, led the creation of the Seattle Climate Partnership, a voluntary pact among more than 50 public and private institutions to reduce their global warming pollution, and established the Directors’ Climate Network, a coalition of environment directors and senior climate protection staff from about 20 U.S. cities. Nicholas worked for ISC previously—from 1995 to 1998—as Country Director for Macedonia, where he lead the Democracy Network Project, which strengthened Macedonia’s fledgling democracy by building the capacity of non-profit organizations through technical and financial assistance. He holds a Master of Public Policy from Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a BA in Public Policy from Colby College.
Heidi Cullen, Climate Central
Dr. Heidi Cullen is a senior research scientist with Climate Central, a research and communications organization headquartered in Princeton, NJ. Climate Central is non-profit, non-partisan network of scientists and journalists dedicated to educating the public about the science and solutions to global warming. Dr. Cullen currently provides reports on climate for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Before joining Climate Central, Dr. Cullen helped create Forecast Earth on The Weather Channel, the first weekly television series to focus on issues related to climate change and the environment. Dr. Cullen worked as a research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. She received a bachelor's degree in engineering/operations research from Columbia University and went on to receive a doctorate in climatology and ocean-atmosphere dynamics at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.
Panel Chairs and Vice-Chairs
Marilyn A. Brown, Georgia Tech
Vice-Chair, Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change
Marilyn A. Brown joined Georgia Tech in 2006 after a distinguished career at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). At ORNL, she held various leadership positions and led several major energy technology and policy scenario studies, and remains affiliated as a Visiting Distinguished Scientist. Dr. Brown has a strong record of publication and service in the field of energy policy and technology forecasting. Her research interests encompass the development and deployment of sustainable energy technologies and issues surrounding the commercialization of new technologies and the evaluation of energy programs and policies. Recent projects include an assessment of the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program, development of a national climate change technology deployment strategy as required by the 2005 Energy Policy Act, and quantification of the carbon footprints of the nation's largest 100 metropolitan areas. Dr. Brown has authored more than 150 publications and has been an expert witness in hearings before Committees of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. She serves on the board of directors of the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, and the Alliance to Save Energy; she is on the editorial boards of several journals including the Journal of Technology Transfer; she is a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy and the National Academies' Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, and she is a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, among other awards. Dr. Brown has a Ph.D in geography from Ohio State University and a B.A. in political science from Rutgers University.
Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University
Vice-Chair, Panel on Advancing the Science of Climate Change
Thomas Dietz is Assistant Vice President for Environmental Research, Director of the Environmental Science and Policy Program, and Professor of Sociology and Crop and Soil Sciences at Michigan State University. His current research examines the human driving forces of environmental change, environmental values and the interplay between science and democracy in environmental issues. Dietz is also an active participant in the Ecological and Cultural Change Studies Group at MSU. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been awarded the Sustainability Science Award of the Ecological Society of America, the Distinguished Contribution Award of the American Sociological Association Section on Environment, Technology and Society, and the Outstanding Publication Award, also from the American Sociological Association Section on Environment, Technology and Society. He has chaired and served on numerous National Academies panels and committees, including the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, and currently sits on the Steering Committee for the Climate Change Exhibition at the Koshland Science Museum. He holds a Bachelor of General Studies degree from Kent State and a PhD in Ecology from the University of California at Davis.
Robert Fri, Resources for the Future
Chair, Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change
Robert Fri is a visiting scholar and senior fellow emeritus at Resources for the Future, a nonprofit organization that studies natural resource and environmental issues. He has served as director of the National Museum of Natural History, president of Resources for the Future, and deputy administrator of both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Research and Development Administration. Fri has been director of American Electric Power Company; vice-chair and a director of the Electric Power Research Institute; a trustee and vice-chair of Science Service, Inc.; and a member of the National Petroleum Council. He is active with the National Academies, where he is National Associate, vice-chair of the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Marion E. Koshland Science Museum. He has chaired studies for the National Research Council on the health standards for the Yucca Mountain repository and on estimating the benefits of applied research programs at the Department of Energy. He currently chairs a study to evaluate the nuclear energy research program at DOE. Fri received his B.A. in physics from Rice University and his M.B.A. from Harvard University, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.
Katharine Jacobs, Arizona Water Institute
Chair, Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
Katharine L. Jacobs is the Executive Director of the Arizona Water Institute, a consortium of the three state universities (Arizona State University, the University of Arizona, and Northern Arizona University) focused on water-related research, education, and technology transfer in support of water supply sustainability. She is also an Associate Director of the NSF Center for Sustainability of Arid Region Hydrology and Riparian Areas at the University of Arizona, and a Professor and Specialist at the Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science. She has more than twenty years of experience as a water manager for the state of Arizona Department of Water Resources, including 14 years as director of the Tucson Active Management Area. Her research interests include water policy, connecting science and decision-making, stakeholder engagement, use of climate information for water management applications, climate change adaptation, and drought planning. Ms. Jacobs earned her M.L.A. in environmental planning from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a co-author of the National Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change and part of the National Assessment Synthesis Team, and has served on numerous National Academies panels.
Diana Liverman, University of Oxford/University of Arizona
Vice-Chair, Panel on Informing Effective Decisions and Actions Related to Climate Change
Diana M. Liverman holds appointments as Senior Research Fellow in the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) and Professor of Environmental Science in the School of Geography and Environment at Oxford University and was recently appointed as co-director of the Institute for Environment and Society at the University of Arizona. Her research interests focus on the human dimensions of global environmental change including climate impacts on society, land use change, environmental governance, and the impacts of climate change policy in the developing world and her publications and student's projects have a particular emphasis on climate impacts, vulnerability, adaptation, and carbon management in Latin America. At ECI she has been responsible for interdisciplinary research programs that include the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP), the Oxford nodes of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change and UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), and the Global Environmental Change and Food Security Programme (GECAFS) of ICSU's Earth System Science Partnership. She is associated with Oxford's James Martin 21st Century School and the Smith School for Enterprise and Environment. She spent much of her academic career in North America where her professional service included chairing the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, and sitting on science advisory committees for NOAA, NASA, and the Inter American Institute for Global Change. She has a BA in Geography from University College London, an MA from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. from UCLA.
Pamela Matson, Stanford University
Chair, Panel on Advancing the Science of Climate Change
Pamela A. Matson (NAS) is Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University. She is also the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies and senior fellow in the Woods Institute of Environment and Sustainability. Her research focuses on biogeochemical cycling and biosphere-atmosphere interactions in tropical forests and agricultural systems. Together with hydrologists, atmospheric scientists, economists and agronomists, Matson analyzes the economic drivers and environmental consequences of land use and resource use decisions in developing world agricultural and natural ecosystems, with the objective of identifying practices that are economically and environmentally sustainable. With her students, she also evaluates the response of tropical forests to nitrogen deposition and climate changes. Matson joined the Stanford faculty in 1997, following positions as professor at UC Berkeley and research scientist at NASA. She is a past President of the Ecological Society of America, currently serves on the board of trustees of the World Wildlife Fund, and until recently was the chair of the National Academies' Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994. In 1995, Dr. Matson was selected as a MacArthur Fellow, and in 1997 was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2002 she was named the Burton and Deedee McMurtry University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford. She earned her B.S. at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, M.S. at Indiana University, and Ph.D. at Oregon State University.
Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden
Chair, Panel on Informing Effective Decisions and Actions Related to Climate Change
Peter H. Raven, President of the Missouri Botanical Garden, is one of the world's leading botanists and advocates of conservation and biodiversity. He received the National Medal of Science, the highest award for scientific accomplishment in the United States, in December 2000. Raven has also received numerous other prizes and awards, including the Society for Conservation Biology Distinguished Service Award and the Peter H. Raven Award for Scientific Outreach, which was created to honor him. He also received the prestigious International Prize for Biology from the government of Japan; Environmental Prize of the Institute de la Vie; Volvo Environment Prize; the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the Sasakawa Environment Prize, and has held Guggenheim and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. Described by Time magazine as a “Hero for the Planet,” Raven champions research around the world to preserve endangered plants and is a leading advocate for conservation and a sustainable environment. For three decades Raven has headed the Missouri Botanical Garden, an institution he nurtured to a world-class center for botanical research, education and horticulture display. He is also the Engleman Professor of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis, Chairman of the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration, and previously served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. He served for 12 years as Home Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences, is a member of the academies of science in Argentina, China, India, Italy, Russia, and several other countries; belongs to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and was inducted into the American Academy of Achievement. He was first Chair of the U. S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation, a government-established organization that funds joint research with the independent countries of the former Soviet Union. Raven received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1960 after completing his undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley. He has received honorary degrees from universities in this country and throughout the world.
Mary Nichols, California Air Resources Board
Mary D. Nichols was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as Chairman of the California Air Resources Board in July 2007. She returns to the Air Board 30 years after serving as the Chairman under Governor Jerry Brown from 1978 to 1983. Nichols has devoted her entire career in public and private, not-for-profit service to advocating for the environment and public health. In addition to her work at the Air Board, she has held a number of positions, including: assistant administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Air and Radiation program under the Clinton Administration, Secretary for California's Resources Agency from 1999 to 2003, and Director of the University of California, Los Angeles Institute of the Environment. As one of California's first environmental lawyers, she initiated precedent-setting test cases under the Federal Clean Air Act and California air quality laws while practicing as a staff attorney for the Center for Law in the Public Interest. Nichols holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Yale Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University.
Thomas Wilbanks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Vice-Chair, Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
Thomas J. Wilbanks is a Corporate Research Fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and leads the Laboratory's Global Change and Developing Country Programs. A past President of the Association of American Geographers, he conducts research on such issues as sustainable development, energy and environmental technology and policy, responses to global climate change, and the role of geographical scale in all of these regards. Wilbanks has won the James R. Anderson Medal of Honor in Applied Geography, has been awarded Honors by the Association of American Geographers, geography's highest honor, was named Distinguished Geography Educator of the year in 1993 by the National Geographic Society, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Co-edited recent books include Global Change and Local Places (2003), Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism (2003), and Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems: Linking Global Science and Local Knowledge (2006). Wilbanks is Chair of the National Research Council's Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change and a member of a number of other NAS/NRC boards and panels. In recent years, he has been Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report, Working Group II, Chapter 7 (Industry, Settlement, and Society), Coordinating Lead Author for the Climate Change Science Program's Synthesis and Assessment Product (SAP) 4.5 (Effects of Climate Change on Energy Production and Use in the United States), and Lead Author for one of three sections (Effects of Global Change on Human Settlements) of SAP 4.6 (Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems). Wilbanks received his B.A. degree in social sciences from Trinity University in 1960 and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in geography from Syracuse University in 1967 and 1969.
|
