Dr Richard Allan, University of Reading, UK
Dr Richard Allan, University of Reading, UK
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Dr Richard Allan, University of Reading, UK
Dr Richard Allan, University of Reading, UK
"Richard Allan is a professor of Climate Science in the University of Reading department of Meteorology. His expertise is in combining Earth Observation data with detailed computer simulations to understand the Earth's radiative energy balance and how this influences changes in the global water cycle (including clouds, rainfall and atmospheric water vapour). He is a member of the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) and NASA Clouds and the Earths Radiant Energy (CERES) International Science Teams and contributes to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports. Previously he has worked at the Met Office Hadley Centre."
Professor John Mitchell OBE FRS, Met Office, UK
Mr John Ashton CBE, Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London, Uk
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Mr John Ashton CBE, Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London, Uk
Mr John Ashton CBE, Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London, Uk
"John Ashton is an independent commentator and adviser on the politics of climate change. Best known as a leading climate diplomat, f
rom 2006-12 he served as Special Representative for Climate Change for three successive UK Foreign Secretaries, spanning the current Coalition and the previous Labour Government. He was a cofounder and, from 2004-6, the first Chief Executive of the think tank E3G. From 1978-2002, after a brief period as a research astronomer, he was a career diplomat, with a particular focus on China.
He is a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College. He holds visiting professorships at the London School of Economics and the London University School of Oriental and African Studies. He is a Trustee of the UK Youth Climate Coalition and Tipping Point. He is also a non executive Director of E3G."
Dr Olivier Boucher, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, France
Dr Olivier Boucher, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, France
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Dr Olivier Boucher, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, France
Dr Olivier Boucher, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, France
"Dr Olivier Boucher graduated from the Université P. et M. Curie in Paris in atmospheric sciences in 1995. He was Head of the Earth System and Mitigation Team at the Met Office Hadley Centre from 1995 to 2011. He is now a ""CNRS Directeur de recherche"" at the Laboratoire de météorologie dynamique in Paris. His research interests include aerosol-radiation-cloud interactions, monitoring of atmospheric aerosols, Earth System modelling, biogeochemical feedbacks, climate effects of aviation, and geo-engineering. He has contributed to the IPCC for many years as a lead author for the “Special Report on Aviation and the Global Atmosphere” (1999), a lead author for the Third Assessment Report (2001), a contributing author to the Fourth Assessment Report (2007), a member of the Task Group on New Emission Scenarios, and recently as a Coordinating Lead Author for the ""Clouds and Aerosols"" Chapter of the Fifth Assessment Report. "
Professor Mat Collins, University of Exeter, UK
Professor Mat Collins, University of Exeter, UK
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Professor Mat Collins, University of Exeter, UK
Professor Mat Collins, University of Exeter, UK
"Mat Collins holds the Joint Met Office Chair in Climate Science at the University of Exeter. His research interests are in quantifying uncertainty and probabilistic climate prediction, seasonal to decadal climate predictability and prediction and in understanding climate variability. He has over 80 peer-reviewed publications and has been a contributing author on two of the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. He is currently a member of the World Climate Research Programme International CLIVAR (Climate Variability) Pacific Implementation Panel and is serving as a Coordinating Lead Author on the IPCC AR5. "
Professor Dennis Hartmann, University of Washington, USA
Professor Dennis Hartmann, University of Washington, USA
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Professor Dennis Hartmann, University of Washington, USA
Professor Dennis Hartmann, University of Washington, USA
"Dennis L Hartmann is Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. His PhD degree in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics is from Princeton University. Postdoctoral appointments at McGill University and The National Center for Atmospheric Research preceded joining the faculty at the University of Washington. At Washington Hartmann has served as department chair and interim dean during the formation of the College of the Environment. Hartmann's research interests include dynamics of the atmosphere, atmosphere-ocean interaction, and climate change. His primary areas of expertise are atmospheric dynamics, radiation, remote sensing, and mathematical and statistical techniques for data analysis. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in 2005. He was the 2011 Haurwitz Memorial Lecturer and the 2013 Rossby Medalist for the American Meteorological Society. He is serving as a Coordinating Lead Author for the Fifth Assessment of the Science of Climate Change for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "
Professor Corinne Le Quéré, Tyndall Centre, University of East Anglia, UK
Professor Corinne Le Quéré, Tyndall Centre, University of East Anglia, UK
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Professor Corinne Le Quéré, Tyndall Centre, University of East Anglia, UK
Professor Corinne Le Quéré, Tyndall Centre, University of East Anglia, UK
"Corinne Le Quéré is Professor of Climate Change Science and Policy at the University of East Anglia and Director of the Tyndall entre for Climate Change Research. She conducts research on the interactions between climate change and the carbon cycle. Professor Le Quéré was author of the 3rd, 4th and 5th (ongoing) Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. She co-Chairs the Global Carbon Project, a non-governmental organization that fosters International research on the carbon cycle and publishes annual updates global emissions and sinks of carbon dioxide.
Professor Le Quéré is originally from Canada. She completed a PhD in oceanography in University Paris VI (1999), an M.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from McGill University and a BSc in physics from University of Montréal. She has conducted research at Princeton University in the United States and at the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany."
Professor Jochem Marotzke, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany
Professor Jochem Marotzke, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany
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Professor Jochem Marotzke, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany
Professor Jochem Marotzke, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany
"Jochem Marotzke is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. Since 2006 he has also been an honorary professor at the University of Hamburg. From 1999 to 2003, he was a professor at the Southampton Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom. Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral associate, assistant and associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States of America. In 2009, he was awarded the Fridtjof Nansen Medal of the European Geosciences Union, and in 2007 he was elected to the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. He has served on the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme and is chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of GEOMAR, Germany. Professor Marotzke holds a doctorate in physical oceanography from the University of Kiel, Germany. His primary research interest is in the role of the ocean in the climate and Earth system."
Professor David Randall, Colorado State University, USA
Professor David Randall, Colorado State University, USA
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Professor David Randall, Colorado State University, USA
Professor David Randall, Colorado State University, USA
"David Randall is University Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University, and Director of the Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center. His primary research interests are climate model development and the role of clouds in climate change. His teaching interests include the general circulation of the atmosphere, numerical modeling of the atmosphere, dynamics, boundary layer processes, convection, and climate. He received Bachelors and Masters degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the Ohio State University, and a PhD in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1976.
He served as an Assistant Professor at M.I.T., and also worked as a Meteorologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. He was Chief Editor of the Journal of Climate for ten years, and is currently Chief Editor of the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES). He has published over 190 refereed journal articles. He is the author of “Atmosphere, Clouds, andClimate,” a primer on climate change, published in 2012. He has chaired or co-chaired the science teams of several federally sponsored research projects, including the ARM Science Team, as well as numerous panels and boards. He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and is currently a Coordinating Lead Author for the Fifth Assessment. He is a member of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee (BERAC). He was awarded NASA’s Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 1988, the Meisinger Award of the American Meteorological Society in 1994, and NASA’s Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 2006. He has also received awards from Colorado State University for Scholarship Impact, Research, and Graduate Advising. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science."
Professor Ted Shepherd, University of Reading, UK
Professor Ted Shepherd, University of Reading, UK
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Professor Ted Shepherd, University of Reading, UK
Professor Ted Shepherd, University of Reading, UK
"Ted Shepherd obtained a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Toronto in 1979, and a PhD in Meteorology from MIT in 1984. After a postdoctoral fellowship at DAMTP, University of Cambridge, he took up a faculty position in the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto in 1988. In 2012 he moved to the University of Reading to become the inaugural Grantham Professor in Climate Science. His research interests range from theoretical geophysical fluid dynamics to climate modelling and data analysis, with a focus on atmospheric circulation. He has held leadership roles in scientific assessments of both climate (IPCC) and stratospheric ozone (WMO/UNEP), and is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the Royal Society of Canada."
Professor Thomas Stocker, University of Bern, Switzerland
Professor Thomas Stocker, University of Bern, Switzerland
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Professor Thomas Stocker, University of Bern, Switzerland
Professor Thomas Stocker, University of Bern, Switzerland
"Thomas Stocker was born in Zürich and obtained a PhD in Natural Sciences of ETH Zürich in 1987. He held research positions at University College London, McGill University (Montreal), Columbia University (New York) and University of Hawai'i (Honolulu). Since 1993 he is Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics at the University of Bern. His research encompasses the development of climate models of intermediate complexity, modelling past and future climate change, and the reconstruction of the chemical composition of precipitation and greenhouse gas concentrations based on ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica. Thomas Stocker has authored or co-authored more than 180 peer-reviewed scientific papers in the area of climate dynamics and paleoclimate modeling and reconstruction. Since 2008 he serves as the Co-Chair of Working Group I ""The Physical Science Basis"" of UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "
Dr Peter Stott, Met Office Hadley Centre, UK
Dr Peter Stott, Met Office Hadley Centre, UK
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Dr Peter Stott, Met Office Hadley Centre, UK
Dr Peter Stott, Met Office Hadley Centre, UK
"Dr Peter Stott is Head of Climate Monitoring and Attribution at the Met Office Hadley Centre. He has a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Durham, a Masters degree from the University of Cambridge, having completed Part III of the Mathematical Tripos, and a PhD from Imperial College, London on the atmospheric dispersion and deposition of radionuclides released in the Chernobyl accident of 1986. He joined the Met Office in 1996 where his research into the detection and attribution of climate change has resulted in many publications including a paper in Nature which found a human contribution to the European heatwave of 2003. He is Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Working Group I Fifth Assessment Report chapter entitled “Detection and Attribution of Climate Change : from Global to Regional”. "
Dr Julienne Stroeve, University of Colorado, USA
Dr Julienne Stroeve, University of Colorado, USA
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Dr Julienne Stroeve, University of Colorado, USA
Dr Julienne Stroeve, University of Colorado, USA
"Julienne C Stroeve received a PhD in geography from the University of Colorado Boulder, in 1996, for her work in understanding Greenland climate variability. Subsequently she has been a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) within the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). Her Arctic research interests include atmosphere-sea ice interactions, sea ice predictability, climate change and associated impacts. She has conducted several Arctic field campaigns. Recent research is focused on understanding rapid Arctic change and what this will mean for the rest of the planet. Dr Stroeve’s work has been featured in numerous magazines, news reports, radio shows, and TV documentaries. She has given keynote addresses around the world on Arctic climate issues and briefed former Vice President Al Gore. Dr Stroeve has published more than 50 articles on peer-reviewed journals and contributed to several national and international reports on climate change."
Dr Peter Thorne, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway
Dr Peter Thorne, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway
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Dr Peter Thorne, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway
Dr Peter Thorne, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway
"Dr Peter Thorne is a senior scientist at NERSC in Bergen, Norway. He completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia in 2001. Subsequent to this he has worked at the Met Office Hadley Centre and then NOAA's National Climatic Data Center before taking up his current position at NERSC in August 2013. His research interests are mainly in observed climate change, detection and attribution, and future observational strategies to best meet climate needs. He co-chairs the Working Group on the GCOS Reference Upper Air Network and chairs the International Surface Temperature Initiative. He was a lead author on Chapter 2 of the fifth Assessment Report and is a Lead Author on the Climate Change chapter of the upcoming US National Climate Assessment."
Professor David Vaughan, British Antarctic Survey, UK
Professor David Rubie, University of Bayreuth, Germany
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Professor David Rubie, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Professor David Rubie, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Professor David Rubie works in the fields of mineral physics, geochemistry, and planetology. His research is based on experimental studies performed at the extreme pressures and temperatures of the deep interiors of planets and he applies the results to understanding the structure, composition and evolution of the Earth and the other terrestrial planets of the solar system. He has published 160 scientific research papers in leading international journals and has edited 4 books. He is a research professor at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut (University of Bayreuth, Germany) which is one of the leading institutions worldwide for high pressure research in the Earth sciences. David Rubie has been a full professor there since 1993 and was Institute Director for a total of 8 years.
David Rubie was the recipient of the 2008 Abraham-Gottlob-Werner-Medal of the German Mineralogical Society and the 2008 Schlumberger Medal of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain.
Dr Gavin Schmidt, USA
Dr Gavin Schmidt, NASA GISS, USA
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Dr Gavin Schmidt, NASA GISS, USA
Dr Gavin Schmidt, NASA GISS, USA
Gavin Schmidt is a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. He works on developing models of past, present and future climate. He has been a frequent contributor to public communication on the issue of climate, working with, among others, the New York Academy of Science and the American Museum of Natural History on education and outreach. He is the co-author of ""Climate Change: Picturing the Science"" with photographer Josh Wolfe, published by W. W. Norton in 2009, and contributes to the RealClimate.org blog. He was awarded the inaugural AGU Climate Communication Prize in 2011.