Biographical Sketches of Panelists
Full Statement of Task (pdf)
This panel will address the question:
"What can be done to adapt to the impacts of climate change?"
The panel will describe, analyze, and assess actions and strategies to reduce vulnerability, increase adaptive capacity, improve resiliency, and promote successful adaptation to climate change in different regions, sectors, systems, and populations. The costs, benefits, limitations, tradeoffs, and uncertainties associated with different options and strategies should be assessed qualitatively and, to the extent practicable, quantitatively, using the scenarios of future climate change and vulnerability developed in coordination with the Committee on America's Climate Choices and other panels. The panel will draw on existing reports and assessments and use case studies to identify lessons learned from past experiences, promising current approaches, and potential new directions. The issues and examples considered by the panel should be drawn from a variety of regions and sectors, focusing on domestic actions but also considering international dimensions, and should cover a range of temporal and spatial scales.
The members of the Panel on Adapting the Impacts of Climate Change are:
Ms. Katharine L. Jacobs (Chair),
University of Arizona
Dr. Thomas J. Wilbanks (Vice-Chair),
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mr. Bruce Baughman,
IEM, Inc.
Dr. Georges C. Benjamin,
American Public Health Association
Mr. James L. Buizer,
Arizona State University
Dr. F. Stuart (Terry) Chapin, III,
University of Alaska
Dr. W. Peter Cherry,
Science Applications International Corporation
Dr. Braxton Davis,
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
Dr. Kristie L. Ebi,
IPCC Technical Support Unit WGII
Mayor Jeremy Harris, Retired,
Sustainable Cities Institute
Dr. Robert Kates,
Independent Scholar
Dr. Howard Kunreuther,
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business
Dr. Linda Mearns,
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Dr. Philip Mote,
University of Washington
Dr. Andrew Rosenberg,
University of New Hampshire
Dr. Henry G. Schwartz, Jr.,
Jacobs Civil (retired)
Mr. Joel B. Smith,
Stratus Consulting, Inc.
Dr. Gary Yohe,
Wesleyan University
