Biographical Sketches of Panelists
Full Statement of Task (pdf)
This panel will address the question:
"What can be done to better understand climate change and its interactions with human and ecological systems?"
The panel will first provide a concise overview of past, present, and future climate change, including its causes and its impacts, then recommend steps to advance our current understanding, including new observations, research programs, next-generation models, and the physical and human assets needed to support these and other activities. The panel should consider both the natural climate system and the human activities responsible for driving climate change and altering the vulnerability of different regions, sectors, and populations as a single system; it should also consider the scientific advances needed to better understand the effectiveness of actions taken to limit the magnitude of future climate change, including "geo-engineering" approaches, and to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
The members of the Panel on Advancing the Science of Climate Change are:
Dr. Pamela A. Matson (Chair),
Stanford University
Dr. Thomas Dietz (Vice Chair),
Michigan State University
Dr. Waleed Abdalati,
University of Colorado at Boulder
Dr. Antonio J. Busalacchi, Jr.,
University of Maryland, College Park
Dr. Ken Caldeira,
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Dr. Robert W. Corell,
H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
Dr. Ruth S. DeFries,
Columbia University
Dr. Inez Y. Fung,
University of California Berkeley
Dr. Steven Gaines,
University of California Santa Barbara
Dr. George M. Hornberger,
Vanderbilt University
Dr. Maria Carmen Lemos,
University of Michigan
Dr. Susanne C. Moser,
Susanne Moser Research & Consulting
Dr. Richard H. Moss,
World Wildlife Fund
Dr. Edward A. Parson,
University of Michigan
Dr. A. R. Ravishankara,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Dr. Raymond W. Schmitt,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Dr. B. L. Turner, II,
Arizona State University
Dr. Warren M. Washington,
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Dr. John P. Weyant,
Stanford University
Dr. David A. Whelan,
The Boeing Company
