David S. Schimel
Dr. Jerry M. Melillo (B.A. Wesleyan University, CT; Ph.D. Yale
University) is in his twenty-fifth year as a research scientist at The
Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole,
Massachusetts, and currently serves as the Center's Co-Director. Dr.
Melillo's research on biogeochemistry includes work on global change,
the ecological consequences of tropical deforestation, and sustainable
management of forest ecosystems. He was a covening lead author on the 1990
and 1995 IPCC assessments of climate change. He has served as a vice-chair
of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and is currently
President of ICSU's Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
(SCOPE). Dr. Melillo founded the Marine Biological Laboratory's Semester
in Environmental Science, an education program for undergraduates from
small liberal arts colleges and universities in which students spend a
term learning and doing environmental science in Woods Hole. Dr. Melillo
also has a strong interest in science policy. He served as the Associate
Director for Environment at the Office of Science and Technology Policy in
the Executive Office of the President for 15 months in 1996 and 1997.
Anthony C. Janetos is Sr. Vice President for Program at the World
Resources Institute, an independent policy research institute located in
Washington, DC. He has held this position since 1999. He is an ecologist
by training, with an A.B. in biology from Harvard, and M.A. and Ph.D. in
biology from Princeton University. Dr. Janetos' expertise is in the
interaction of ecosystems and atmospheric change. He has been a
participant, lead author, and editor of many international scientific
assessments, including chapters in IPCC Working Group I, the recent IPCC
Special Report on Land-Use Change and Forestry, and the UNEP Global
Biodiversity Assessment. He is the author or co-author of publications on
the use of remote sensing to understand terrestrial ecosystems, the
importance of biological diversity for ecosystem functioning, and the
synergies among global environmental issues. Before coming to the World
Resources Institute, Dr. Janetos managed research programs on the
consequences of land-cover change for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration in its Office of Earth Science.
Thomas R. Karl is the Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center within NOAA's
National Environmental Satellite and Data Information Service (NESDIS). He
also manages NOAA's Climate Change Data and Detection Program Element
for NOAA's Office of Global Programs. He holds a Masters Degree in
Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Karl is a fellow of the
American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union. He
served as Chair (1997-1999) of the National Academy of Sciences Climate
Research Committee. Mr. Karl has received numerous awards for his
scholarly work on climate, including the Helmut Landsberg Award, the
Climate Institute's Outstanding Scientific Achievements Award, and is a
two-time recipient of the Department of Commerce's Gold Medal and
recipient of their Bronze Medal, and the NOAA Administrator's Award. He
currently is co-chair of NOAA's Decadal-to-Centennial Strategic Planning
Team. He is also the Editor of the Journal of Climate and an Associate
Editor of Climate Change. He has been a lead author on each of the
IPCC's assessments of climate change since 1990. His special interests
in areas of Earth Science Information include building homogenous data
sets and providing stewardship for large data archives. Mr. Karl has
authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, been co-author or
co-editor on numerous texts, and has published over 200 technical reports
and atlases.
Eric Barron is the Director of the Environment Institute in the Earth
and Mineral Sciences college at Pennsylvania State University, where he is
also Distinguished Professor of Geosciences . His areas of specialization
include global change, numerical models of the climate system, and study
of climate change throughout Earth history. He is also currently chair of
the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the National Research
Council (NRC) as well as a member of the NRC committees on Global Change
Research and Grand Challenges in the Environment. Dr. Barron received his
bachelor's degree in Geology from Florida State University in 1973. He
then began study of oceanography and climate at the Rosenstiel School of
Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Miami, receiving his
master's degree in 1976 and his Ph.D. in 1980. His career in climate
modeling was initiated with a supercomputing fellowship at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado in 1976. In
1980 he accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at NCAR, and in 1981 he joined
the staff of the Climate Section. Dr. Barron returned to the University of
Miami as an Associate Professor in 1985. In 1986 he became a member of the
faculty of Pennsylvania State University, serving as Director of the Earth
System Science Center and an Associate Professor of Geosciences.
Virginia Burkett is chief of the Forest Ecology Branch at the National
Wetlands Research Center of the US Geological Survey (USGS), US Department
of Interior, where she has worked since 1990. She also serves as an
Associate Regional Chief Biologist for the USGS Central Region. Dr.
Burkett supervises a team of wetland ecologists, forest scientists and
landscape modelers who conduct research related to the ecology, management
and restoration of forested wetlands. Her expertise includes wetland
forest ecology and restoration, coastal wetland ecology, coastal
management, and wildlife and fisheries management. Her current research
involves bottomland hardwood regeneration in frequently flooded sites of
the Mississippi River floodplain. Previously, Dr. Burkett served as
director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, director
of the Louisiana Coastal Zone Management program, and Assistant Director
of the Louisiana Geological Survey. She received a B.S. in zoology and a
M.S. in botany from Northwestern State University of Louisiana; her
doctoral work in forestry was completed at Stephen F. Austin State
University. Dr. Burkett is presently serving as a lead author of the
chapter on global climate change and its impacts on coastal and marine
ecosystems of the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC).
Thomas F. Cecich is Vice President of Environmental Safety for Glaxo
Wellcome, where he has been employed for 15 years. In that capacity he is
responsible for environmental protection and compliance, occupational
safety and health, and emergency preparedness and response for this large
multinational pharmaceutical company. Previously he held environmental and
safety management positions at both the IBM and Allied Chemical
corporations. Mr. Cecich has served as a faculty member in the Industrial
Extension Service in the School of Engineering at North Carolina State
University and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Industrial
Engineering. Mr. Cecich holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the
University of Miami and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from North
Carolina State University. He is certified in the practice of safety and
industrial hygiene by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals and the
American Board of Industrial Hygiene. He served on the Board of Certified
Safety Professionals from 1993-1998 and was the President of the
organization in 1997. He is the current Chairman of the Board of the
Manufacturers and Chemical Industry Council of North Carolina, a state
affiliate of the Chemical Manufacturers Association.
Robert Corell is Senior Fellow at the Atmospheric Policy Program of the
American Meteorological Society and Senior Research Fellow in the Belfer
Center for Science and International Affairs of the Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University. Prior to these appointments in January
2000, he was Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science
Foundation, where for over twelve years he had oversight for the
Atmospheric, Earth, and Ocean Sciences and the Global Change programs of
the National Science Foundation (NSF). While at the NSF, Dr. Corell also
served as the Chair of the National Science and Technology Council's
committee that has oversight of the US Global Change Research Program.
Further, he served as chair and principal US delegate to many
international bodies with interests in and responsibilities for climate
and global change research programs. Dr. Corell is currently actively
engaged in research concerned with both with the sciences of global change
and with the interface between science and public policy. He currently
serves as the Chair of the steering committee for the Arctic Climate
Impact Assessment, which is an international assessment of the impacts of
climate variability, change, and ultraviolet radiation increases in the
Arctic region. Prior to joining the NSF in 1987, Dr. Corell was a
Professor and academic administrator at the University of New Hampshire.
Dr. Corell is an oceanographer and engineer by background and training,
having received his Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees at the Case Institute of
Technology and MIT and having held appointments at the Woods Hole
Institution of Oceanography, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and
the University of Washington.
Katharine Jacobs has been the Director of the Tucson Active Management
Area of the Arizona Department of Water Resources since 1988. Her
expertise is in groundwater management and developing practical,
appropriate solutions to difficult public policy issues. She has worked in
many capacities for the Department of Water Resources since 1981,
verifying groundwater rights, developing mandatory conservation and
enforcement programs, writing statewide rules requiring the use of
renewable water supplies in new subdivisions, and working within the
Tucson community building consensus solutions to serious water policy
conflicts. She has facilitated development of groundwater recharge
facilities and regional recharge policy. Ms. Jacobs has a bachelor's
degree in biology from Middlebury College in Vermont, and a master's
degree in environmental planning from the University of California,
Berkeley. She participated in a National Research Council panel that
authored the book Valuing Groundwater and has authored a number of
publications on water management-related subjects.
Linda Joyce is Research Project Leader with the USDA Forest Service
Rocky Mountain Research Station. She supervises a team of scientists who
conduct research on the impact of terrestrial and atmospheric disturbances
on alpine and forest ecosystems. She is also an affiliate faculty member
in the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology and in the Rangeland Ecosystem
Sciences Department, both programs at Colorado State University. Her
research interests include modeling vegetation and ecosystem dynamics to
assess the impact of climate change on ecosystem structure and function,
quantifying the impacts of management on natural resources, linking
ecological and economic analyses, and spatially optimizing natural
resource production. Dr. Joyce serves as the Climate Change Specialist for
the USDA Forest Service. She has contributed to the forestry and rangeland
sections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments. She
received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Grand Valley State
University, a Master's in Environmental Science from Miami University of
Ohio, and a Ph.D. in range ecology from Colorado State University.
Dr. Miller is a Senior Water Resources Specialist in the World Bank's
Africa Region, focusing on water resources management and international
rivers in sub-Sahara Africa. She serves as a core member of the Nile Basin
Initiative (NBI) Team, which is providing support to the ten countries
that share the Nile River in the sustainable development and management of
Nile water resources. Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Miller was
President and Co-founder of Rankin International, a consulting firm
providing engineering expertise in the areas of water, energy, the
environment, and climate change. Previously, Dr. Miller spent ten years
with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). As Manager of the Flood Risk
Reduction Department she was responsible for reducing flood damage
potential in the Tennessee River Basin. While serving as a Senior Engineer
at TVA's Engineering Laboratory, Dr. Miller managed the Reservoir System
Analysis Group and was responsible for reservoir system modeling to
support multipurpose reservoir system and hydropower operations. While at
TVA, she also directed TVA's hydrologic modeling and climate change
impact assessments. Dr. Miller has served on the advisory boards of
several national climate change studies. Prior to TVA, Dr. Miller worked
with the Illinois State Water Survey, Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton
Engineers and Architects, and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Dr.
Miller received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and M.S. from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison. She is a licensed Professional Engineer.
M. Granger Morgan is Head and Professor of Engineering and Public
Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also holds the Lord Chair
Professor in Engineering as well as academic appointments in both the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in The H. John Heinz
III School of Public Policy and Management. He holds a B.A. from Harvard,
where he concentrated in Physics, an M.S. in Astronomy and Space Science
from Cornell, and Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Physics and
Information Sciences at the University of California at San Diego. Much of
Professor Morgan's recent research has focused on the integrated
assessment of large complex policy problems that involve science and
technology; in the treatment of uncertainty in quantitative policy
analysis; in risk analysis, management and communication; and in several
applied areas of technology and public policy. In collaboration with Hadi
Dowlatabadi, he is active in Carnegie Mellon's Center for Integrated Study
of the Human Dimensions of Global Change where his work includes better
characterization of important uncertainties, and development of better
policies to promote basic technology research in support of clean energy
technology. Professor Morgan is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, and the Society for Risk Analysis.
Edward A. Parson is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's
John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he has been on the Faculty
since 1992. He is also a Faculty Research Associate in the Belfer Center
for Science and International Affairs. Dr. Parson's research interests
include the two related fields of environmental policy and negotiations.
His environmental research stresses its international dimensions,
including policy coordination, international institutions, negotiation,
and conflict resolution. His book on the development of international
cooperation to protect the ozone layer will appear in 2001. Current
projects include work on scientific assessment in international
policy-making; policy implications of carbon-cycle management; design of
international market-based policy instruments; and development of policy
exercises, simulation-gaming, and related novel methods for assessment and
policy analysis. In negotiations, Parson's interests include the use of
models and expert assessment bodies to support negotiations, learning and
bargaining under uncertainty, and analysis of multi-party negotiations. He
has developed a series of simulated multi-party negotiation exercises that
are used for policy research and executive training in ten countries. Dr.
Parson has served on the National Research Council Committee on Human
Dimensions of Global Change. He holds degrees in Physics from the
University of Toronto and Management Science from the University of
British Columbia, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard. He has worked
and consulted for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,
the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, the US Environmental
Protection Agency, Environment Canada, the Canadian Privy Council Office,
the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the Commission
of the European Communities, and the UN Environment Programme.
Richard Richels directs Global Climate Change Research at EPRI
(formerly the Electric Power Research Institute) in Palo Alto, California.
In previous assignments, he directed EPRI's energy analysis, environmental
risk, and utility planning research activities. He has served on a number
of national and international advisory panels, including committees of the
Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the
National Research Council. He has served as an expert witness at the
Department of Energy's hearings on the National Energy Strategy and
testified at Congressional hearings on priorities in global climate change
research. He also served as a principal lead author for the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Second Assessment
Report and is currently serving as a lead author for the IPCC's Third
Assessment Report. He is a co-author with Alan Manne of Buying Greenhouse
Insurance - the Economic Costs of CO2 Emission Limits. Dr. Richels was
awarded a M.S. degree in 1973 and Ph.D. degree in 1976 from Harvard
University's Division of Applied Sciences. While at Harvard he was a
member of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center.
David Schimel is Professor and Director in the Max-Planck-Institute for
Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany and a Senior Scientist at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Previously, he has
been a research scientist at Colorado State University in the College of
Natural Resources and a National Research Council Senior Fellow at
NASA-Ames Research Center. His scientific interests focus on the role of
terrestrial ecosystems in the carbon cycle and on interactions between
ecosystems and climate. He has served as Convening Lead Author of the IPCC
for chapters on the Carbon Cycle and on impacts in North America. He has
served on numerous committees and advisory panels including the National
Research Council Committee on Global Change Research and interagency
Carbon Cycle Science Plan Working Group. Dr. Schimel received a B.A. from
Hampshire College in biology and applied mathematics, and Ph.D. from
Colorado State University in Rangeland Ecosystem Science.
