Paolo Agnolucci
Paolo is an environmental economist with a strong analytical
and statistical background. After working as environmental
adviser for a corporate client and as consultant in the energy
sector, he joined the Policy Studies Institute in December
2002.
He is currently working in a project building scenarios for
a decarbonised UK energy system in 2050 and on a project analysing
the economics of the development of a hydrogen economy. Recent
work has been about the role of the announcement effect in
environmental taxes, the evaluation of the Climate Change
Levy, modelling of technological change in energy-environment-economic
models and on the role of price in the diffusion of renewable
energy.
Paolo is also a PhD student in the economics department at
Birkbeck College and a member of the UK Network of Environmental
Economists.
Keigo Akimoto
Keigo Akimoto is a senior researcher at Research Institute
of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), which is located
in Kyoto, Japan. He received Ph.D degree from Yokohama National
University in 1999. His scientific interests are in modelling
and analysis for energy systems and the global warming issue.
Professor Nigel Arnell
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
School of Geography
University of Southampton
Nigel Arnell is Head of the School of Geography at the University
of Southampton and co-leader of the Adaptation Theme in the
Tyndall Centre. His general research area is in the implications
of climate change for hydrological regimes and water management,
and research has ranged from hydrological analysis to, increasingly,
policy analysis. He developed the methods used by the water
industry in the UK to estimate the implications of climate
change for supply reliability, and played a leading role in
the Defra-funded "Fast-Track" initiative to estimate
the global-scale implications of climate change. Professor
Arnell was also involved in the OST Foresight Future Flood
and Coastal Defence Project, with particular responsibility
for assessing the effectiveness of land use measures on flood
damages. He was the Co-ordinating Lead Author for the chapter
on Hydrology and Water Resources in the Third Assessment Report
of the IPCC, and is a Lead Author for two chapters - water
resources and climate change and sustainable development -
in the Fourth Assessment Report. Professor Arnell is also
on the UKCIP Scientific Steering Committee. He has advised
the Environment Agency and water companies on the implications
of climate change, and has given many presentations to scientific
and policy audiences.
Dr Alice Bows
Alice Bows joined the interdisciplinary Tyndall Centre (North)
within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UMIST (now
the University of Manchester) in September 2003. She trained
initially as a physicist at the University of Leeds, and then
studied for a PhD at Imperial College in the Space and Atmospheric
Physics Group. The research covered 3-D global climate modelling
of the natural variability of the atmosphere, specifically
the 11-year sunspot cycle. After completing her PhD in 2000,
she left academia for a brief career in science communication,
firstly working for the Institute of Physics as a press officer,
and then on to become head of media relations at St George's
Hospital Medical School in Tooting, London.
Her first year as a research associate within the Tyndall
Centre concentrated on looking at Contraction and Convergence
as a policy tool for mitigating climate change, and how high
growth industries, such as the aviation industry, are impacted
by such a scheme. In addition to the aviation work, Alice
is currently working on the integrated scenarios flagship
Tyndall Theme 2 Project, which aims to bring together the
various projects carried out throughout the Tyndall Centre
partner institutions to develop energy scenarios for the next
50 years, that each meet the UK government's 60% emissions
target.
Peter Challenor
Peter Challenor started his professional life as a statistician.
He then started to work in oceanography on extremes in oceanography.
During his career he has worked mainly on surface waves and
satellite remote sensing. He is a co-investigator of the recent
Huygens mission to Titan. Recently he has become interested
in uncertainty in numerical models, particularly the climate
prediction problem. He is a member of the steering committee
for NERC's Rapid climate change programme.
Andrew Challinor
Andrew Challinor studied physics at Leeds University, where
he went on to a PhD on the modelling of forest microclimate.
In 2000 he moved to Reading, where he works at the university,
as part of the cross-disciplinary Crops and Climate Group.
His work focuses on the combined simulation of crops and climate,
a topic with relevance to short- and long- term agricultural
planning. He is one of the organisers of the forthcoming Royal
Society meeting, 'Food crops in a changing climate.
Dr Richard Dawson
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Tyndall Centre, UK
Dr. Richard Dawson is a researcher at Newcastle University.
His research is focused on improving flood management - particularly
within the context of an uncertain future climate. Recent
work has involved developing tools for national scale flood
risk analysis for which he won the ICE's Robert Alfred Carr
prize, regional scale flood risk analysis over 100 year timescales
and performance based management of flood defence systems.
Dr Guangtao Fu
University of Bristol and Tyndall Centre, UK
Dr Guangtao Fu is a graduate of Shandong University of Technology
with bachelors and masters degrees in Civil Engineering. He
received a PhD from Dalian University of Technology with a
thesis on decision making theory for water resources systems
under fuzzy environments in 2003. Coming to Bristol, he works
on uncertainty handling in the climate projection and integrated
assessment process. His main research interests are hydrological
modelling, decision support system for flood control, and
uncertainty analysis of climate change on water resources
systems.
Indur Goklany
Indur Goklany, who is Assistant Director for Science and Technology
Policy at the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of
Policy Analysis, has worked for over thirty years on a variety
of developmental, natural resource and environmental issues
with the U.S. federal government, the Staew of Michigan, the
private sector, and various think tanks. He has researched
and written widely on science-related public policy issues
pertaining to the relationships between human well-being,
economic development and technological change; hunger; biotechnology;
sustainable development; the precautionary principle, air
quality; and climate change. He has a bachelor's degree from
the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and master's and
doctorate degrees from Michigan State University (all in electrical
engineering). Opinions and views expressed by Dr. Goklany
are his alone, and not necessarily of any institution with
which he is associated.
Prof Jim Hall
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Tyndall Centre, UK
Jim Hall holds the Chair in Earth Systems Engineering in
the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at the University
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Before joining the university in 2004
he was Reader in Civil Engineering Systems in the Department
of Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol where he
held a Royal Academy of Engineering Post-Doctoral Research
Fellowship. Professor Hall's research is internationally renowned
for the development of new uncertainty handling and decision-support
tools for flood and coastal risk analysis. He is author of
over 70 refereed journal and conference publications. In 2001
he received the Institution of Civil Engineer's George Stephenson
Medal and the Frederick Palmer Prize for his work on risk-based
benefit assessment of coastal cliff recession. In 2004 he
was awarded the Institution of Civil Engineers' Robert Alfred
Carr Prize for his work on broad-scale assessment of flood
risk. He was Principal Investigator of the EPSRC Flood and
Coastal Risk, Reliability and Uncertainty Network (FloodRiskNet)
and is managing Newcastle University's involvement in projects
funded by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research,
looking at various aspects of uncertainty and impacts of climate
change. Professor Hall is member of the EA/Defra R&D Theme
Advisory Group on Risk Evaluation and Understanding of Uncertainty
and played a core role in the OST Foresight Future Flooding
project, which sought to analyse risks and responses to flooding
and coastal erosion in the UK over the period 2030-2100.
Dr. Hijioka
Dr. Hijioka serves in the National Institute of Environmental
Studies in Japan as a researcher. His research topics cover
development of integrate assessment model for analyzing climate
change impacts, especially related to global and regional
water resources, and he is involved in the development of
the Asian-Pacific Integrated Model (AIM) to estimate climate
change impact and to assess policy options for stabilizing
global climate.
Steffen Kallbekken
Steffen Kallbekken is a research fellow at CICERO - Center
for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo.
He has a BSc in Environmental Science from the University
of Bradford (1999) and a MSc in Environmental Economics and
Environmental Management from the University of York (2000).
He is currently pursuing his PhD in behavioural economics
at the University of Oslo. His research at CICERO has focused
on emissions trading, general equilibrium modeling, integrated
modeling and long-term climate targets.
Dr Jonathan Lawry
University of Bristol and Tyndall Centre, UK
Jonathan Lawry is Reader in Artificial Intelligence in the
Department of Engineering Mathematics at the University of
Bristol, a post to which he was appointed in 1997. Dr. Lawry
has published over 60 refereed articles in the area of approximate
reasoning and has extensive experience in the application
of uncertainty methods to real world problems including flood
forecasting and risk analysis. He was the principle investigator
on an EPSRC funded project to develop methods for the automated
learning of fuzzy prototypes and has also received grants
from the Nuffield foundation and the Royal Academy of Engineering.
He is also a co-investigator on a grant from the Tyndall research
centre on Uncertainty Modelling in Climate Change and is a
member of the new EPSRC/EA/DEFRA Flood Risk Management Consortium
from where he has a grant to investigate applications of AI
to flood forecasting. Dr Lawry is a member of the Institute
of Mathematics and its Applications and was joint organiser
for the IEEE workshop `Modelling with Words' that took place
in Melbourne in December 2001. He was also co-chair of the
2003 UK workshop on Computational Intelligence to take place
in Bristol and he is chairing the International Workshop on
Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics in 2006.
David Lee
David Lee is Professor of Atmospheric Science at Manchester
Metropolitan University. His specialism is aviation impacts
on climate and is active in various UK and EU research projects
(TRADEOFF, PARTEMIS, AERO2K, QUANTIFY, AERONET, ECATS). He
is also active in IPCC, ICAO, EU and UNFCCC working groups.
Current particular interests are the impacts of aviation on
climate and aviation's future role in stabilization scenarios.
Prof. Dr. Rik Leemans
Prof. Dr. Rik Leemans leads the Environmental Systems Analysis
group (www.dow.wau.nl/msa) of the Environmental Sciences Department
of Wageningen University. He further co-chairs the Response
Option Working group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
He also participates in several (inter)national committees
concerned with various aspects of global change. He currently
directs several multidisciplinary projects to develop integrated
assessment models for global biodiversity and local/regional
ecosystem vulnerability.
Over the last decade he was a senior scientist of the National
Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in Bilthoven.
Here, he directed the development of integrated modelling
approaches for the biosphere within the IMAGE 2 model. He
was further strongly involved in all assessments of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over the last decade.
His early studies at Uppsala University (Sweden) emphasised
the successional dynamics and structure of boreal forests.
His subsequent research position at the Biosphere Project
of the International Institute of Applied System Analyses
(IIASA, Austria) focussed on boreal forest models. Since then
his research has excelled into modelling global land-cover
patterns and land-use change. His main research interests
concern biodiversity, vegetation structure and dynamics, land-use
and cover change, biogeochemical cycles, biodiversity, ecosystem
services and sustainable development.
Dr. Leemans has published on a wide range of topics. These
include forest dynamics, large-scale vegetation and crop distribution,
global environmental databases, terrestrial C cycle and the
importance of feedback processes, the incorporation of land-use
change and other human dimensions into Earth system models,
biodiversity, integrated assessment tools and, more recently,
potential mitigation and adaptation options and strategies
for environmental change.
Some recent publications:
Bakkenes, M., J. R. M. Alkemade, F. Ihle, R. Leemans, and
J. B. Latour. 2002. Assessing effects of forecasted climate
change on the diversity and distribution of European higher
plants for 2050. Global Change Biology 8:390-407.
Leemans, R., 2001. The use of global-change scenarios to determine
changes in species and habitats. In Global biodiversity in
a changing environment: Scenario for the 21st century. (eds.
F. Stuart Chapin, III, O.E. Sala and E. Huber-Sannwald), Springer
Verlag, New York. pp. 23-46.
Leemans, R., and B. Eickhout. 2004. Another reason for concern:
regional and global impacts on ecosystems for different levels
of climate change. Global Environmental Change 14:219-228.
Leemans, R., B. J. Eickhout, B. Strengers, A. F. Bouwman,
and M. Schaeffer. 2002. The consequences for the terrestrial
carbon cycle of uncertainties in land use, climate and vegetation
responses in the IPCC SRES scenarios. Science in China, Series
C. 45:126-136.
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. 2003. Ecosystems and human
well-being: a framework for assessment. Island Press, Washington
DC.
Smith, J.B., H.J. Schellnhuber, M. Monirul Qader Mirza, S.
Fankhauser, R. Leemans, L. Erda, L. Ogallo, B. Pittock, R.
Richels, C. Rosenzweig, U. Safriel, R.S.J. Tol, J. Weyant
and G. Yohe, 2001. Vulnerability to Climate Change and reasons
for concern: A Synthesis. In Climat Change 2001. Impacts,
Adaptation, and Vulnerability. (eds. J.J. McCarthy, O.F. Canziani,
N.A. Leary, D.J. Dokken and K.S. White), Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge. pp. 913-967.
Dr Ling Lim
Dr Ling Lim is a Research Associate at the Centre for Air
Transport and the Environment (CATE). Ling has a background
in civil engineering and has completed a PhD in atmospheric
dispersion at the University of Surrey. Ling has worked on
air quality dispersion modelling. She is currently working
on modelling the effects of aviation on climate using simple
climate models, and calculating global and regional contrail
coverage.
Irene Lorenzoni
Irene Lorenzoni is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre
for Environmental Risk (School of Environmental Sciences,
University of East Anglia). Her current research focuses on
perceptions and institutional aspects of global climate change,
and is funded by the Understanding Risk Programme of the Leverhulme
Trust and by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
Her interests include individual and cultural views of climate
change, and public and stakeholder participation.
Reg Mann
Reg Mann is professor of chemical reaction engineering at
The University of Manchester (formerly UMIST), where he has
been a member of the teaching staff since 1972. His principal
research interests are in applied catalysis and mixing in
chemical reactors. He has pioneered the use of process tomography
to quantify the segregated concentration fields that arise
in chemical reactors which are not well mixed. Such imperfect
mixing can profoundly distort the chemical yield achieved.
Professor Mann is also seeking to apply tomography for validation
of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for chemical reactors.
He has published more than 100 technical papers and supervised
some 40 doctoral candidates. In recent years he has been pursuing
the use of clever chemistry and catalysis to devise a sustainable
chemical industry based upon recycling. This includes a carbon
neutral scheme for transportation based on petrol/gasoline
which sequesters CO2 on board and reconstitutes it back into
petrol/gasoline by hydrogenation from water as a hydrogen
source.
Dr. Bert Metz
Dr Bert Metz studied Chemical Engineering at the Delft University
of Technology and received his doctorate at the same university.
From 1976 until 1980 and from 1982 until 1987 he worked for
the Inspectorate for Environmental Protection of the Dutch
Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment at the
Northern Regional Office in the field of air pollution, external
safety, noise pollution, chemical waste and the enforcement
of environmental laws. Between these two periods he was Senior
Lecturer and Acting Head of Department of the Department of
Chemical Engineering at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria,
Nigeria. From 1987 until 1992 he was Counsellor for Health
and Environment at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington
DC. In 1992 he became Deputy Director for Air and Energy of
the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and
Environment. In this function he was responsible for climate
policy and international climate change negotiations. After
the adoption of the Climate Change Convention in Rio de Janeiro
he was leading the Netherlands delegation to the negotiations
leading to the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol to the Climate
Convention in December 1997. During the Netherlands presidency
of the European Union in 1997 he was chairman of the Working
Group that prepared the European position in the climate negotiations
and the draft decisions on EU climate policy. In 2001 he was
re-elected (after a first term that started in 1997) as co-chairman
of the Working Group on Climate Change Mitigation of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change of the UN for the preparation of the
Fourth Assessment Report in 2007. From 1998 he has been associated
with the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency RIVM,
where he led the International Environmental Assessment and
the Global Sustainability and Climate Division. Currently
he is a senior scientist with the Agency. He is married to
Mieke Woerdeman. They have two daughters.
Robert J. Nicholls
Chair in Coastal Engineering
School of Civil Engineering and the Environment
University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ
Robert Nicholls has an international reputation concerning
impacts and adaptation to climate change for coastal areas,
with a strong emphasis on sea-level rise. This includes lead
authorship of chapters in four reports of the Intergovernmental
Panel for Climate Change (IPCC): Second Assessment Report
(1996); the Regional Assessment (1998); the Special Report
on Technology Transfer (2000); and the Third Assessment Report
(2001), and he is now convening lead author for the coastal
chapter in the IPCC 4th assessment. He led the SURVAS
Project which reviewed vulnerability around the world
from 1999 to 2001. His research includes methodological developments,
detailed case studies of impacts and possible responses, and
regional and global analyses which support climate policy
development. He is author of more than 80 papers and book
chapters.
Dennis Parker
Middlesex University, Flood Hazard Research Centre, UK
Dennis Parker is a founder member of the Flood Hazard Research
Centre. He is a specialist in research on the socio-economic
impacts of floods, flood warning systems and flood management
in general, and has advised many national and international
agencies and governments around the world. His current research
is on the design of hazard warning systems, and flood hazard
management in London and the Thames estuary.
Chris Rapely
Prof Chris Rapley CBE is Director of the British Antarctic
Survey (BAS). Prior to this he was for four years the Executive
Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
(IGBP) at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
This followed an extended period as Professor of Remote Sensing
Science and Associate Director of University College London's
Mullard Space Science Laboratory. He has a first degree in
physics from Oxford, a M.Sc. in radioastronomy from Manchester
University, and a Ph.D. in X-ray astronomy from University
College London. He has been a Principal Investigator on both
NASA and European Space Agency satellite missions and is a
member of the NASA JPL Cassini mission Science Team. He has
been a member of numerous national and international committees
and boards including Vice President of the Scientific Committee
for Antarctic Research and Chair of the International Council
for Science's (ICSU) International Polar Year 2007-2008 (IPY)
Planning Group. He is currently a member of the European Polar
Board's Executive and ICSU - World Meteorological Organisation
(WMO) Joint Committee for IPY. He is a Fellow of St Edmund's
College Cambridge, and is an Honorary Professor at University
College London and at the University of East Anglia.
UK Carbon Capture and Storage Consortium
Jon Gibbins, Imperial College London
Stuart Haszeldine, University of Edinburgh
Sam Holloway, Jonathan Pearce, British Geological Survey
John Oakey, Cranfield University
Simon Shackley, University of Manchester
Carol Turley, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
The authors are members of the UK Carbon Capture and Storage
Consortium. This is a national group with members from twelve
universities, the British Geological Survey, Plymouth Marine
Laboratory and the Tyndall Centre, formed in April 2004 to
bid for £2 million support from the Research Councils
'Towards a Sustainable Energy Economy' programme under its
Carbon Management theme. The mission of the Consortium is
"to promote an understanding of how options for decoupling
fossil fuel use from carbon emissions through the use of carbon
capture and storage could be used to assist the UK in achieving
an energy system which is environmentally sustainable, socially
acceptable and meets energy needs securely and affordably".
Members also recognise that carbon capture and storage is
likely to have an important global role in the transition
to stable and sustainable CO2 emissions and hope that UK progress
in this area will support the aims of the UK's G8 climate
change initiative.
Dr Peter Read
Born in 1935, Dr Peter Read trained originally as an officer
with the Royal Navy, subsequently gaining a first degree and
PhD in Engineering at Cambridge University. After a spell
as a scientist with the nuclear energy program, he became
a policy analyst and administrator in Whitehall from 1964
- 1975, mainly working on energy policy issues. He returned
to academia via an Economics Masters at the London School
of Economics and a Research Fellowship in Alternative Energy
Technology at the Open University. He migrated with his NZ
born wife in 1980 and has since taught and researched Energy
Economics at Massey University, New Zealand. Since 1990 he
has focused increasingly on the climate change impact of energy
technology and the development of industry-friendly response
strategies that reflect the need to be prepared for potential
abrupt climate change. The basis of his approach, involving
the development of large-scale global bio-energy trading,
is set out in his 1994 book "Responding to Global Warming",
and is developed in about 100 scientific papers.
Tim Reeder
Environment Agency, UK
Tim Reeder is a manager in the Thames Region of the Environment
Agency. He has over twenty years experience in the environmental
field, for much of that working to monitor and improve the
quality of the Thames. He has been involved in climate change
issues for over ten years and represents the Agency on the
London Climate Change partnership. He is Project Scientist
for the Thames 2100 project, which is looking at the future
of the Thames Barrier and flood risk management in the Thames
Estuary, and is managing the Agency's input to ESPACE an EC
project (European Spatial Planning Adapting to Climate Events).
Paul Reiter
Paul Reiter is a specialist in the biology, ecology, behaviour
and control of mosquitoes, and the transmission dynamics and
epidemiology of the diseases they transmit. He worked for
22 years as a Research Scientist at the Division of Vector-borne
Infectious Diseases of the US Centres for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), with special interest in dengue, West
Nile encephalitis and other arboviral diseases. During that
period, he headed field investigations of disease outbreaks
in many countries around the world on behalf of the World
Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organization
(PAHO), the US Government, Operation Lifeline Sudan and other
organizations. In 2003 he was appointed Professor at the Institute
Pasteur, Paris, where he directs a new unit of Insects and
Infectious Disease. He is a member the WHO Expert Advisory
Committee on Vector Biology and Control, and has served on
many other international committees and work groups. He has
a long-standing interest in the role of weather and climate
in epidemiology, and has been actively involved in the international
debate on climate change for more than 12 years. He has served
as consultant and lead author for the US Climate Change Research
Program (Health Section), and on other national and international
panels.
Michael E. Schlesinger
Michael E. Schlesinger, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), received
his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering, and his Ph.D. degree
in Meteorology, all from the University of California, Los
Angeles. Professor Schlesinger directs the UIUC Climate Research
Group (CRG) within the Department of Atmospheric Sciences.
He is an expert in the modelling, simulation and analysis
of climate and climate change, with interests in simulating
and understanding past, present and possible future climates,
climate impacts and climate policy. He carried out the first
detailed comparison of climate and climate changes simulated
by different atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs).The
CRG has tropospheric, tropospheric/lower-stratospheric, tropospheric/stratospheric
and tropospheric/stratospheric/mesospheric GCMs - which can
be run with and without the CRG's atmospheric photochemistry/species-transport
model, either with sea surface temperature and sea ice thickness
prescribed or simulated by either the CRG mixed-layer ocean
model or the CRG oceanic GCM. The CRG also has a coupled atmospheric
general circulation/mixed-layer ocean-ice-sheet/asthenosphere
model and a variety of simple climate models, including the
model that Prof. Schlesinger developed in 1984 and later used
to make projections of global temperature change to the year
2100 for the 1990 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) report. Results from increased carbon-dioxide and other
simulations by the tropospheric and tropospheric/lower-stratospheric
GCMs have been used in many climate-impact assessments, beginning
with that for the United States published by the EPA in 1989.
In 1991 Prof. Schlesinger investigated the urgency of climate-change
mitigation and found that "the penalty for a 10-year
delay in initiating the transition to a reduced-greenhouse-gas
scenario is small." In 1994 he discovered a 65-70 year
temperature oscillation in observed surface temperatures for
the North Atlantic Ocean and its bordering continental regions,
a finding that was reported in Discover Magazine as one of
"The Top 75 Science Stories" of 1994. In 1996 he
published the first simulation of the onset of the last ice
age using a coupled atmospheric general circulation/mixed-layer
ocean-ice-sheet/asthenosphere model. In 1997 he developed
the Country-Specific Model for Intertemporal Climate which
has been used by 123 scientists in 47 countries. Since 1991
he has published several papers on climate-change impacts
and policy, including those developing the robust adaptive
decision strategy. He has published papers on the influence
of the Pinatubo eruption on climate and chemistry, on the
causes of the observed temperature changes since 1856, and
on an objective estimation of the probability distribution
for climate sensitivity based on observed temperature changes.
His research currently focuses on: (1) Simulating and understanding
the past, present and possible future behaviour of the Atlantic
thermohaline circulation; (2) Characterizing and reducing
the uncertainty in the estimated climate sensitivity; (3)
Determining the effects on past and future climate of the
sun, sulphate aerosols - both of volcanic and anthropogenic
origin - and natural variability; (4) Performing integrative
assessment of climate change, including the impacts of climate
change and adaptation and mitigation responses; (5) Further
developing the robust adaptive decision strategy; and (6)
Simulating and understanding the coupled climate-chemistry
system, including the influences of the sun - both irradiance
and energetic electron precipitation - and volcanoes. Prof.
Schlesinger has directed NATO and other conferences in Italy,
England and the United States; has edited three books; and
has contributed to many assessments of climate change, including
those of the IPCC and the Energy Modelling Forum. He is currently
editing the book "Human-Induced Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary
Assessment" to be published by Cambridge University Press.
A complete list of Professor Schlesinger's publications and
additional information are located on the CRG
Homepage.
W.W.A. Shantha
Agribusiness Consultant
Research & Development Division
Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau
11, Jawatta Road
Colombo-05
Sri Lanka
Mr. Shantha W.W.A received BSc in Agriculture from Sabaragamuwa
University of Sri Lanka. He joined Central Engineering Consultancy
Bureau in 2003 as an Agribusiness Consultant. He is appointed
as a researcher in analyzing climate change in Mahaweli Upper
Watershed area by the Government of Sri Lanka. Owing to his
expertise in the field, he became a member of parliamentary
consultancy Committee for Ministry of Rural Economy in Sri
Lanka. He is a pioneer in research & development activities
oriented on development of national environmental friendly
sustainable Agribusiness Policy in Sri Lanka.
Will Steffen
Will Steffen is currently Science Adviser, Australian Greenhouse
Office, and Visiting Fellow, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Australian
Government, Canberra. In addition, he is the Chief Scientist
of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP),
headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Steffen received his PhD
in inorganic chemistry in 1975 from the University of Florida,
USA. After working for five years as a research chemist, he
joined the CSIRO Division of Environmental Mechanics, Canberra,
to work in science management, editing and communication.
In 1990 he became the Executive Officer of IGBP's Global Change
and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) core project, based in Canberra.
He took up IGBP's directorship in 1998 and served as Executive
Director from then until June 2004. Steffen's science interests
span a broad range within the field of Earth System science,
with a special emphasis on terrestrial ecosystem interactions
with global change, the global carbon cycle and on adaptation
to global change.
Dr. Takahashi
Dr. Takahashi serves in the National Institute for Environmental
Studies as a researcher. His fields of research cover environmental
modelling analysis, especially on water resources and global
agriculture, and he is involved in the development of the
Asian-Pacific Integrated Model (AIM) to estimate climate change
impact and to assess policy options for stabilizing global
climate. His recent research interests include impact assessments
considering inter/intra-annual climate variability and extreme
events, quantitative assessment of adaptation options, and
development of discussion tool for seeking acceptable stabilization
targets.
Richard S.J. Tol
Richard S.J. Tol is the Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability
and Global Change, Departments of GeoSciences and Economics,
and Director, Research Unit on Sustainability and Global Change,
Centre for Marine and Climate Research, Hamburg University,
Germany; a Principal Researcher, Institute for Environmental
Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and
an Adjunct Professor, Centre for Integrated Study of the Human
Dimensions of Global Change, Department of Engineering and
Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA,
USA. He received a M.Sc. in econometrics (1992) and a Ph.D.
in economics (1997) from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
After a short while as a research assistant at the Department
of Econometrics, he joined the Institute for Environmental
Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 1992. He joined
the Centre for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of
Global Change in 1998. He joined Hamburg University in 2000.
He has been a Visiting Researcher at the Canadian Centre for
Climate Research, University of Victoria, British Colombia
(March 1994), and the Centre for Social and Economic Research
on the Global Environment, University College London (March
1995). He has 73 publications in learned journals (with 42
co-authors), 1 book, 4 major reports, 20 book chapters, and
many minor publications. He is interested in the application
of economic, mathematical and statistical techniques, such
as time series analysis, valuation, decision analysis, and
game theory, to environmental problems, in particular climate
change, natural disasters, marine resources and river basin
management. He is known for his work on impacts of, and adaptation
to climate change. He developed the Climate Framework for
Uncertainty, Negotiation and Distribution, an integrated assessment
model for climate change. He is a board member of the Centre
for Marine and Climate Research and of the International Max
Planck Research Schools of Earth Systems Modelling and Maritime
Affairs, all at Hamburg University. He participates in the
model comparison exercises of the Energy Modelling Forum of
Stanford University. He is an editor for Energy Economics
and an associate editor for Environmental and Resource Economics.
He is advisor and referee of national and international policy
and research. He is an author (contributing, lead, principal
and convening) of Working Groups I, II and III of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change. He is an author and editor of the
UNEP Handbook on Methods for Climate Change Impact Assessment
and Adaptation Strategies. He is actively involved in the
European Climate Forum and the European Forum on Integrated
Environmental Assessment.
Dr Carol Turley
Dr Carol Turley has managed a large UK Community programme
(Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study) and led two NERC funded
core strategic science programmes at Plymouth Marine Laboratory
which also focused on ocean carbon cycling. She is currently
Head of Science for Biogeochemistry and a member of the PML
Senior Management Team. Her own research has been centred
on the ocean's biogeochemical cycles looking at habitats from
shallow and deep-sea sediments, estuaries, frontal systems
to large enclosed waters. She has researched pelagic-benthic
coupling and the role of sediment dwelling organisms on mediating
sediment processes and the effect of sediment bound contaminants
on biodiversity and biogeochemical processes. She has worked
within the EU framework programmes (Mediterranean Targeted
Programme, EUROCEANS). She has been invited to write reviews
by the Royal Society and the Federation of European Microbiology
and in addition the EU has asked her to carry out substantial
reviews on the current state of the Mediterranean and also
on linking scientific research to policy making. She has also
been invited to give numerous key note talks on marine biogeochemical
cycles at international venues. She recently led the Government
(DEFRA) review on impact of pH change on the marine environment,
is a member of The Royal Society working group on ocean acidification
and is a member of the international Steering Committee for
Integrated Marine Biogeochemical and Ecosystem Research (IMBER)
a new International Global Biosphere Programme (IGBP).
Dr Jon Wicks
Halcrow, UK
Dr Jon Wicks is a chartered civil engineer with eighteen years'
experience in mathematical modelling of river systems, pipe
networks and sediment transport. He has wide experience in
water resources projects including flood studies, river modelling,
flood forecasting, hydrology, pipe networks, irrigation and
sediment studies. His particular expertise is in software
development within the water resources discipline and has
project managed the development of many successful software
products including ISIS and the MDSF - UK standard tools for
flood modelling and catchment flood management planning respectively.
Dr Wicks has worked on modelling studies on the River Thames
for many years and is currently helping the Environment Agency
with tidal flood inundation prediction for London.
Richard Wood
Richard Wood obtained a first degree in mathematics from Cambridge
University, and a PhD in geophysical fluid dynamics from Exeter
University. He spent 2 years as a lecturer in applied mathematics
at Southampton University before joining the Met Office in
1989, where he has worked at the Hadley Centre since its inception.
He is currently a Met Office Fellow and Manager of Ocean Model
Evaluation in the Hadley Centre. He has worked widely on modelling
the ocean and its role in climate, and has been a lead author
on model evaluation in the IPCC third and fourth assessment
reports.
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