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Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
Biographical Sketches of Panel Members
Ms. Katharine L. Jacobs (Chair)
Arizona Water Institute
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.
Dr. Thomas J. Wilbanks (Vice-Chair)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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.
Mr. Bruce Baughman
IEM, Inc.
Bruce Baughman, for more than three decades, has served in key Federal and state emergency management positions for some of the largest natural and man-made disasters ever to hit the U.S. and its territories, including 13 hurricanes, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has testified before Congress on emergency management issues more than 25 times. As director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency, he led the state's response to three hurricanes--Ivan in 2004 and Dennis and Katrina in 2005--and a deadly series of tornados in March of 2007. Prior to his appointment by the Governor of Alabama, Mr. Baughman held several key positions at FEMA, including Director of the Office of National Preparedness and Director of Operations. While at FEMA, he directed response operations for more than 110 presidential disaster and emergency declarations, including hurricanes, earthquakes, bombings, and flooding. He retired from the Department of Homeland Security as one of FEMA's top senior executives in 2003. Mr. Baughman is the recipient of numerous national awards, including FEMA's Distinguished Service Award, four FEMA Meritorious Service Awards, the National Hurricane Conference's Distinguished Service Award and the Neil Frank Award, and the President's Council on Year 2000 Gold Medal. He is a past president of the National Emergency Management Association. Mr. Baughman is currently Senior Consultant for Emergency Management and Homeland Security to Innovative Emergency Management, INC.
Dr. Georges C. Benjamin
American Public Health Association
Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, FACEP (E), is well known in the world of public health as a leader, practitioner and administrator. Benjamin has been the executive director of the American Public Health Association (APHA), the nation's oldest and largest organization of public health professionals, since December 2002. He came to that post from his position as secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where he played a key role in the expansion and improvement of the Maryland Medicaid program. Benjamin became secretary of the Maryland health department in April 1999, following four years as its deputy secretary for public health services. Benjamin, of Gaithersburg, MD, is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He is board-certified in internal medicine and a fellow of the American College of Physicians; he is also a Fellow Emeritus of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Mr. James L. Buizer
Arizona State University
James L. Buizer is Science Policy Advisor to Arizona State University President Michael M. Crow and Director for Strategic Institutional Advancement in the Office of the President. Mr. Buizer provides strategic advice and guidance on a broad range of topics to the President and other University leadership. As Director of Strategic Institutional Advancement, Mr. Buizer oversees transformative design efforts and development of new interdisciplinary academic units
across the University. Upon arriving at ASU in September 2003 until July 2007, he established and served as Executive Director of the Office of Sustainability Initiatives in the Office of the President, where he led the conceptualization, design and initiation of the University-wide Global Institute of Sustainability and its School of Sustainability, launched fall 2006 as the first of its kind in the world. He also serves on numerous boards and councils throughout the university as well as nationally and internationally. In his personal capacity he serves on the Board of Directors at the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE), on the Board of Directors of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), on the Board of Directors of Second Nature, Inc., on the Board of Trustees of the Tesseract School in Paradise Valley, Arizona, and on the Advisory Committee of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC.) Prior to coming to ASU Jim spent 20 years as a manager at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), where he designed a series of climate adaptation programs, including the Regional Integrated Science and Assessments Program, the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, among others. He was Director of the Climate and Societal Interactions Office at NOAA in Washington, D.C., where he led NOAA's integrated, multidisciplinary research and applications program positioned at the climate and societal interface. In this capacity Jim coordinated the U.S. Government Review of the 2000
Assessment Report of the Working Group on Impacts of Climate Change of the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He received his degrees in Oceanography, Marine Resource Management and Science Policy from the University of Washington, Seattle.
Dr. F. Stuart (Terry) Chapin, III
University of Alaska
F. Stuart Chapin, III, research focuses on ecosystem ecology and on the resilience of social-ecological systems. His ecological research addresses the consequences of plant traits for ecosystem and global processes, particularly vegetation effects on nutrient cycling, fire regime, and biodiversity. He also studies vegetation-mediated feedbacks to high-latitude climate warming, as mediated by changes in water and energy exchange. Dr. Chapin's research on social-ecological systems emphasizes the resilience of northern regions to recent changes in climate and fire regime. This research entails studies of human and climatic effects on fire regime, the resulting effects on ecosystem services, wages, and cultural integrity, and the effects of local opinions about fire and national fire policy on the fire policies developed and implemented at regional scales. Most of his current research focuses on Alaska and eastern Siberia. Dr. Chapin has served on numerous NRC committees and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. W. Peter Cherry
Science Applications International Corporation
W. Peter Cherry is Chief Analyst at Science Applications International Corporation, where his research interests include the design, development, and test and evaluation of large-scale systems with emphasis on network centricity. A member of the NAE, he has focused on the development and application of operations research in the national security domain, primarily in the field of land combat. He contributed to the development and fielding of most of the major systems currently employed by the Army, ranging from the Patriot Missile System to the Apache helicopter, as well as the command control and intelligence systems currently in use. In addition, he contributed to the creation of the Army's Manpower Personnel and Human Factors and Training Program and to the Army's Embedded Training Initiative. Dr. Cherry is a member of the Army Science Board and for the past ten years has participated in independent reviews of the Army's Science and Technology programs.
Dr. Braxton Davis
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
Braxton Davis is the Director of the Policy and Planning Division for South Carolina's Coastal Zone Management Program, where he leads long-term state policy initiatives focused on shoreline change, ocean resources, and coastal trends analysis. For the past six years, he has also worked with NOAA and the Coastal States Organization (CSO) on several national studies related to coastal and ocean policy issues. As a delegate for the state of South Carolina, he currently serves as vice chair of CSO, and previously served as chair of a Climate Change Work Group that brings coastal states' perspectives on climate change research and policy needs to the federal government. He has provided congressional testimony on climate change issues, and continues to serve on several interagency committees to improve federal, state, and local coordination on coastal issues and climate change. Dr. Davis earned a B.S. degree in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia, a M.S. degree in biological sciences from Florida International University, and a Ph.D. in marine affairs from the University of Rhode Island.
Dr. Kristie L. Ebi
IPCC Technical Support Unit WGII
Kristie L. Ebi is Executive Director of the Technical Support Unit for Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Prior to this position, she was an independent consultant. She has been conducting research on the impacts of and adaptation to climate change for more than a dozen years, including on extreme events, thermal stress, foodborne safety and security, and vectorborne diseases. She has worked with the World Health Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, USAID, and others on implementing adaptation measures in low-income countries. She facilitated adaptation assessments for the health sector for the states of Maryland and Alaska. She was a lead author on the "Human Health" chapter of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, and the "Human Health" chapter for the U.S. Synthesis and Assessment Product Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems. She has edited fours books on aspects of climate change and has more than 80 publications. Dr. Ebi’s scientific training includes an M.S. in toxicology and a Ph.D. and a Masters of Public Health in epidemiology, and two years of postgraduate research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Mayor Jeremy Harris
Sustainable Cities Institute (Retired)
Jeremy Harris served for more than 10 years as the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, the 12th largest city in the United States. He retired in January of 2005. Prior to becoming Mayor, he was Honolulu's longest serving managing director, a position he held for almost nine years. Under his leadership Honolulu received the Gold Award as the most livable large city in the world. Mayor Harris is the only individual to receive the award of Public Administrator of the Year for two consecutive years from the American Association of Public Administrators in Hawaii. He has served on the board of directors of the national American Institute of Architects, Irving Distinguished Professor at Ball State University, and as visiting senior faculty at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He holds a Masters of Science degree in population and environmental biology, specializing in urban ecosystems from the University of California, Irvine, and is the author of the book The Renaissance of Honolulu, the Sustainable Rebirth of an American City.
Dr. Robert Kates
Independent Scholar
Robert Kates is a Senior Research Associate at Harvard University, Presidential Professor of Sustainability Science at the University Of Maine, and University Professor (Emeritus) at Brown University. Trained as a geographer, he has led interdisciplinary programs addressing hazards, climate, and adaptation at the University of Dar as Salaam in Tanzania, Clark University, and the World Hunger Program at Brown University. He has participated in all four IPCC Assessments, in the NRC Committee on Global Change, and in State of Maine climate advisory groups. He has co-authored or edited foundational studies on natural hazards (Burton, Kates, and White, 1978, 1993), on climate impact assessment (Kates, Ausubel, Berberian, 1985) and on global change in local places (Association of American Geographers Global Change and Local Places Research Group, 2003). His most recent research is on reconstruction following hurricane Katrina and his current research is on enhancing community resilience to multiple hazards. Dr. Kates is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Howard Kunreuther
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business
Howard Kunreuther is the Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Decision Sciences and Public Policy at the Wharton School, Co-Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center. He has a long-standing interest in ways that society can better manage low-probability/high-consequence events related to technological and natural hazards and has published widely in these areas. Dr. Kunreuther is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); a member of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program's Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction; and Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, receiving the Society's Distinguished Achievement Award in 2001. He is co -chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on "Innovation and Leadership in Reducing Risks from Natural Disasters" and a member of the OECD's High Level Advisory Board on Financial Management of Large-Scale Catastrophes.
Dr. Linda Mearns
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Linda O. Mearns is a Senior Scientist in the Institute for the Study of Society and the Environment (ISSE) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado. She served as Director of ISSE for three years ending in April 2008. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography/Climatology from UCLA. She has performed research and published mainly in the areas of climate change scenario formation, quantifying uncertainties, and climate change impacts on agro-ecosystems. She has particularly worked extensively with regional climate models. She has most recently published papers on the effect of uncertainty in climate change scenarios on agricultural and economic impacts of climate change, and quantifying uncertainty of regional climate change. She has been an author in the IPCC Climate Change 1995, 2001, and 2007 Assessments regarding climate variability, impacts of climate change on agriculture, regional projections of climate change, climate scenarios, and uncertainty in future projections of climate change. For the 2007 Report(s) she was Lead Author for the chapter on Regional Projections of Climate Change in Working Group 1 and for the chapter on New Assessment Methods in Working Group 2. She is also an author on two Synthesis Products of the US Climate Change Science Program. She leads the multi-agency supported North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP), which is providing multiple high-resolution climate change scenarios for the North American impacts community. She is a member of the National Research Council Climate Research Committee (CRC) and Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC) Committee. She was made a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in January 2006.
Dr. Philip Mote
University of Washington
Philip Mote serves as director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and Oregon Climate Services at Oregon State University, and is a full professor in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. Until July 2009 he also works at University of Washington (UW) as a research scientist with the Climate Impacts Group, where since 1998 he has built the group’s public profile through hundreds of public speaking events, over a thousand media interviews, deep engagement with the region’s stakeholders, and groundbreaking research in the impacts of climate change on the West’s mountain snow and on wildfire. He has published over 70 scientific articles and edited a book on climate modeling. He serves as state climatologist for Washington and, as director of Oregon Climate Services, serves in a similar role there. He was a lead author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report; the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. In 2008 he received the UW Distinguished Staff Award and was named one of the region’s 25 most influential people by Seattle Magazine. He earned a PhD in atmospheric sciences from UW and a BA in physics from Harvard.
Dr. Andrew Rosenberg
University of New Hampshire
Dr. Andrew Rosenberg is a Professor in the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire where, prior to April 2004, he was dean of the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture. From 2001-2004, he was a member of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and continues to work with the US Joint Ocean Commissions Initiative. Prior to coming to UNH, Dr. Rosenberg was the Deputy Director of NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service from 1998-2000, the senior career position in the agency. As Deputy Director he dealt with policy decisions on science and resource management issues nationwide as well as the administration of the agency. He was a principle agency spokesperson before Congress, the public and technical audiences. Before becoming NMFS Deputy Director, Dr. Rosenberg was the NMFS Northeast Regional Administrator. He negotiated and implemented the recovery program for New England fisheries, reversing overfishing and resource declines on George's Bank as well as other areas for groundfish and scallop fisheries. He worked to develop and implement marine mammal recovery programs and endangered species protections throughout the northeast. Dr. Rosenberg served as the U.S. representative in several international fishery management organizations including NAFO, NASCO and on the delegation to FAO and other UN meetings. Dr. Rosenberg's scientific work is in the field of population dynamics, resource assessment and resource management policy. He holds a B.S. in Fisheries Biology from the University of Massachusetts, an M.S. in Oceanography from Oregon State University and a Ph.D. in Biology from Dalhousie University. He was on the faculty of Imperial College of Science and Technology in London for six years and was the Deputy Director of the Renewable Resources Assessment Group, and internationally known quantitative analysis and policy group. He is currently the President of MRAG Americas, a consulting company with offices in Florida, Massachusetts and is a member of the Board of Directors of MRAG, a London-based international marine resource consultancy.
Dr. Henry G. Schwartz, Jr.
Jacobs Civil (retired)
Henry G. Schwartz, Jr. is an independent consultant. He is a nationally recognized civil and environmental engineering leader who spent most of his career with Sverdrup Civil, Inc. (now Jacobs Civil, Inc.), which he joined as a registered professional engineer in 1966. In 1993, Schwartz was named President and Chairman, directing the transportation, public works, and environmental activities of Sverdrup/Jacobs Civil, Inc. before he retired in 2003. Dr. Schwartz's projects included multibillion-dollar water and wastewater treatment systems for the cities of San Diego, San Francisco, and Detroit as well as large civil-infrastructure projects, such as highways, bridges, dams, and railroads. Dr. Schwartz is a Director of the Berger Group and was a Senior Professor of Engineering Management at Washington University in St. Louis from 2003 to 2007. He has served on the Advisory Boards for Carnegie Mellon University, Washington University, The University of Texas, and is President Emeritus of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. He is Founding Chairman of the Water Environment Research Foundation and served as President of the Water Environment Federation. Dr. Schwartz is Past President of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was elected to NAE in 1997 (Section 4: civil engineering) and has served on several NRC study committees, including service as chair of the Committee on Climate Change and U.S. Transportation, and is on the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board. Currently, he is a member of the Unified Synthesis Product Development Committee of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. Dr. Schwartz received a Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology and M.S. and B.S. degrees from Washington University; he also attended Princeton University and Columbia University's Business Program.
Mr. Joel B. Smith
Stratus Consulting, Inc.
Joel B. Smith has been analyzing climate change impacts and adaptation issues for over 20 years. He was a coordinating lead author for the synthesis chapter on climate change impacts for the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a lead author for the U.S. National Assessment on climate change impacts, technical coordinator on vulnerability and adaptation for the U.S. Country Studies Program, and is coordinator of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change series on environment. He has provided technical advice, guidance, and training on assessing climate change impacts and adaptation to people around the world and for clients such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the U.S. EPA, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the State of California. Mr. Smith worked for the U.S. EPA from 1984 to 1992, where he was the deputy director of Climate Change Division. He is a coeditor of EPA's Report to Congress: The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States, published in 1989; As Climate Changes: International Impacts and Implications, published by Cambridge University Press in 1995; Adaptation to Climate Change: Assessments and Issues, published by Springer-Verlag in 1996; and Climate Change, Adaptive Capacity, and Development, published in 2003 by Imperial College Press. He joined Hagler Bailly in 1992 and Stratus Consulting in 1998. He has published more than 35 articles and chapters on climate change impacts and adaptation in peer-reviewed journals and books. Besides working on climate change issues at EPA, he also was a special assistant to the assistant administrator for the Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation. Mr. Smith was a presidential management intern in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1982 to 1984. He has also worked in the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Joel Smith received a MPP, BA political science.
Dr. Gary Yohe
Wesleyan University
Gary W. Yohe is the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University and Visiting Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and received his PhD in Economics from Yale University in 1975. He is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles, several books, and many contributions to media coverage of climate issues. Most of his work has focused attention on the mitigation and adaptation/impacts sides of the climate issue. Dr. Yohe served as Convening Lead Author for one chapter in the Response Options Technical Volume of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment; it focused on uncertainty and the evaluation of response options. Recognizing the enormous uncertainty with which we view the future evolution of the climate and socio-economic systems lead him to call for a risk management approach to climate policy -- an approach that was adopted last fall in the Synthesis Report of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC). He has been a senior member of the IPCC since the mid 1990's, serving as a Lead Author for four different chapters in the Third Assessment Report and as Convening Lead Author for the last chapter of the contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). He also worked with the Core Writing Team to prepare the overall Synthesis Report for the entire AR4. Dr. Yohe also recently served as one of five editors of Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, and he has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the "Hidden (climate change) Cost of Oil" on March 30, 2006, the Senate Energy Committee on the Stern Review on February 14, 2007, and the Senate Banking Committee on "Material Risk from Climate Change and Climate Policy" on October 31, 2007. He sits on the New York Panel on Climate Change and the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change for the National Research Council.
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