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Climate Change Experts

The University of Maryland (UM) has more than 30 experts who can talk about different scientific, technological, economic and policy aspects of climate change.

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Number of experts found: 44

 
Phillip A. Arkin

Director of the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites and Deputy Director of ESSIC

Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center

Expertise Key Words:
earth science, climate change (popularly called global warming), precipitation (rain, snow, etc.), and how precipitation responds to and affects various aspects of the Earth System

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2147

parkin@essic.umd.edu
parkin@umd.edu

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Bilal M. Ayyub

Professor and Director

Center for Technology and Systems Management

Expertise Key Words:
Reliability and risk analysis, forensic engineering, uncertainty modeling and analysis, decision methods, infrastructure systems, sea level rise.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1956
301 299 9375

ba@umd.edu

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Antonio J. Busalacchi

Director

Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center

Expertise Key Words:
Climate Variability and change. Global change, Role of tropical ocean circulation in the coupled climate system, climate change, El Nino, La Nina, numerical modeling of climate change. Environmental modeling. Earth remote sensing.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5599

tonyb@essic.umd.edu

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James A. Carton

Prof & Chair

Atmospheric & Oceanic Science

Expertise Key Words:
I work with computer models and observations to elucidate the ocean's role in climate variability and change. Specific problems include tropical climate, ENSO, North Pacific and polar climate variability, anthroprogenic climate change.

Atlantic Ocean currents; the Loop Current

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5365

carton@atmos.umd.edu

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Maureen L. Cropper

Affiliate Prof, Dist Univ Prof Chair

Economics

Expertise Key Words:
Valuing environmental amenities (especially environmental health effects), on the discounting of future health benefits, and on the tradeoffs implicit in environmental regulations

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3483

mcropper@umd.edu

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Russell R. Dickerson

Professor

Atmospheric & Oceanic Science

Expertise Key Words:
Air Pollution, Atmospheric Chemistry, Air Quality, Global Biogeochemical Cycles(including their relevance to climate change), Ammonia

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5391

rrd@umd.edu

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James J. Dooley

Senior Staff Engineer V

Joint Global Change Research Institute

Expertise Key Words:
climate change; carbon capture and disposa; the interplay between R&D investments, climate change related technology development and economics

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 314-6766

jj.dooley@pnl.gov

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James A. Edmonds

Senior Staff Scientist and Technical Leader of Economic Programs

Joint Global Change Research Institute

Expertise Key Words:
economic and policy issues of global change, climate change and sustainable development, technological strategies for stabilizing greenhouse gases and promoting practical ways to promote both economic growth and environmental quality

Expertise Credentials:
Jae Edmonds is a Senior Staff Scientist and Technical Leader of Economic Programs at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between the University of Maryland and the Department of Energys Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The institute is located on Marylands College Park campus. Dr. Edmonds heads an international global change research program at PNNL with active collaborations in more than a dozen institutions and countries around the world. He is the principal investigator for the Global Energy Technology Strategy Program to Address Climate Change, an international public-private research collaboration.

Dr. Edmonds is well known for his contributions to the field of the integrated assessment of climate change and the examination of interactions between energy, technology, policy and the environment. He has expounded extensively on the subject of global change including books, papers, and presentations. His publications include, Global Energy Assessing the Future, with John Reilly (Oxford University Press) and A Primer on Greenhouse Gases (Lewis Publishing and scientific book of the year at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). He has served as a Lead Author for all three major assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and numerous interim assessment reports. He has frequently testified before Congress and briefed the Executive Branch of the United States Government including the Vice President of the United States and the Cabinet of the President of the United States, and has prepared and conducted numerous briefings and lectures to a wide range of audiences.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 314-6749

jae@pnl.gov

Address:
8400 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 201
College Park,, MD  20740-24


 
Steve Fetter

Professor

School of Public Policy
** On Leave with the Obama Admin.**

Expertise Key Words:
nuclear arms control; nuclear nonproliferation; ballistic missile defense; nuclear energy and other carbon-free energy supply; climate change

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6355

301 422 6857

sfetter@umd.edu

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Dana R. Fisher

Associate Professor

Sociology

Expertise Key Words:
Civic Engagement & Activism
Social Movements & Protest
Climate Politics
New Communications Technologies/Web 2.0

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6469

drfisher@umd.edu

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Gerald E. Galloway

Glenn L. Martin Institute Prof of Engr and and Affiliate Prof of Public Policy; Research Professor

Civil & Environmental Engineering; School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Water Resources Policy; Water Resources Management and Engineering; Integrated Water Resource Management; Floods; Flood Damage Reduction (Levees, Dams, Floodwalls); Flood Insurance; Infrastructure Security; impacts of climate change on flooding, drought and other water resource issues

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1341

703-979-5253

571-334-2103

gegallo@umd.edu
river57@comcast.net

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Elisabeth Gilmore

Asst Prof

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
economics of fuel economy and energy efficiency in the US, the costs and environmental implications of passenger vehicles in India, and the treatment of non-marginal environmental change in policy analysis

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6360

gilmore@umd.edu

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Timothy R. Gulden

Research Fellow

Ctr for Intl Security Studies at Maryland

Expertise Key Words:
Analysis of Iraq violence; analysis of various international security issues, including oversight of hazardous biological research, security implications climate change and civil violence.

Core expertise in economic and data analysis, especially mega-regions and the dynamics of globalization.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4020

301 404 5747

tgulden@umd.edu

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Thomas C. Hilde

Research Professor

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
International ethics, foreign affairs, globalization, philosophical pragmatism, development, philosophy, torture, human rights

Environment: climate change, biodiversity, sustainability, legitimacy, environmental governance, international environmental agreements

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3660

202 321 7384

thilde@umd.edu

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Nathan E. Hultman

Director, Environmental Policy Program, School of Public Policy

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Climate change, carbon markets, international climate policy, energy policy, low-carbon energy, nuclear power, renewable energy, climate risk, energy technology innovation, risk & decisionmaking under scientific uncertainty, science and society.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3429

hultman@umd.edu

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David W. Inouye

Prof

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
phenology, climate change, pollination biology, plant population biology, wildflowers, Rocky Mountains, hummingbirds, bumble bees

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6946

301-422-8926/ 970-349-5801 CO

inouye@umd.edu

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Gregory S. Jackson

Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Expertise Key Words:
solid oxide fuel cells, electrocatalysis, H2 production, catalytic reactors (catalytic combustion, hydrogen generators, computational modeling), meso-scale power production, thermoelectric waste heat recovery

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2368

gsjackso@umd.edu

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Anthony C. Janetos

Director, Joint Global Change Research Institute

Joint Global Change Research Institute

Expertise Key Words:
environmental science, climate change (commonly called global warming), biodiversity, land-cover and land-use change, satellite imaging, terrestrial ecosystems

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 314 7843

anthony.janetos@pnl.gov

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Christopher O. Justice

Professor and Chair

Geography

Expertise Key Words:
land cover, land use change, satellite imaging of land cover, climate change (global warming), the extent and impacts of global fire, global agricultural monitoring, and associated information technology and decision support systems.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1600

cjustice@umd.edu

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Eugenia E. Kalnay

Distinguished University Professor

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science

Expertise Key Words:
Numerical Weather Forecasting; Atmospheric Predictability and ensemble forecasting; Use of satellite observations; Data assimilation; Seasonal and Interannual prediction; Land-use change impact on climate change;

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5370

ekalnay@umd.edu
ekalnay@gmail.com

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Eric S. Kasischke

Prof, Affiliate Prof

Geography

Expertise Key Words:
assessing impacts of fire and disturbance on boreal forest ecosystem processes, carbon cycling in boreal forests, monitoring boreal forests with satellite-based remote sensing systems and monitoring terrestrial ecosystems with imaging radar systems, climate change impacts

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2179

ekasisch@umd.edu

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Sujay Kaushal

Asst Prof

Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center

Expertise Key Words:
Biogeochemistry, limnology, fate and transport of organic pollutants, effects of land use/climate change, aquatic restoration ecology, stable isotopes as environmental tracers, microbial ecology

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7048

862 485 6455

skaushal@umd.edu

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Michael S. Kearney

Professor

Geography

Expertise Key Words:
Sea level rise; coastal marshes in the Chesapeake Bay; shore erosion; disappearing islands and land loss; sedimentation in the Bay; remote sensing; impacts of storms on storm surge processes; hurricanes; Rita and Galveston; climate change, commonly called global warming, and sea level rise.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4057

mkearne2@umd.edu

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Donald F. Kettl

Dean

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Public policy and public management with a speciality in the management of public organization; federalism; budgeting; and U.S. politics.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6971

kettl@umd.edu

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Daniel B. Kirk-Davidoff

Asst Prof

Atmospheric & Oceanic Science

Expertise Key Words:
climate, climate change (popularly called global warming), clmate modeling, paleoclimate modeling; satellite climate monitoring, climate impact of very large scale wind farms,

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5386

dankd@umd.edu

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Xin-Zhong Liang

Visit Sr Res Sci, Prof

Atmospheric & Oceanic Science

Expertise Key Words:
Development and application of global general circulation models;
Regional climate and environmental modeling

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6300

xliang@umd.edu

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Elizabeth L. Malone

Staff Scientist IV

Joint Global Change Research Institute

Expertise Key Words:
science research in global change, global environmental change, globalization, economic development, equity, and sustainability, climate change

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 314 6755

e.malone@pnl.gov

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Raghu Murtugudde

Prof

Atmospheric & Oceanic Science

Expertise Key Words:
Climate, climate change, global warming, El Niño and La Niña, role of carbon cycle and ecosystems in climate, variability of the carbon sources and sinks, physical bosphere-climate interaction, oceans and climate, phytoplankton, climate change impacts on Chesapeake Bay; drought impact

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 314 2622

mahatma@umd.edu

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Brian A. Needelman

Associate Professor of Soil Science

Environmental Science and Technology

Expertise Key Words:
Soil science, climate change, coastal wetlands, tidal marshes, carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8227

bneed@umd.edu

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Margaret A. Palmer

Professor

Entomology and Biology

Expertise Key Words:
water quality;watersheds; aquatic biodiversity; stream and watershed restoration; global water issues; restoration ecology; land use change; urban environments

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3795

410 798-8814

301 873-7256

mpalmer@umd.edu

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Reinhard K. Radermacher

Director, Center for Environmental Energy Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Expertise Key Words:
Cooling, Heating and Power (CHP) Systems; Conventional and Alternative Cooling Technologies; Optimization of Thermal Systems; Energy and the Environment;

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5286

raderm@umd.edu

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Eugene M. Rasmusson

Sr Res Schl Emeritus

Atmospheric & Oceanic Science

Expertise Key Words:
El Nino-Southern Oscillation phenomenon, climate change and variability, coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions on the tropics and the nature and variability of the global hydrological cycle.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5376

erasmu@umd.edu

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Matthias Ruth

Weston Professor of Natural Economics; Co-Director, Engineering and Public Policy

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Environmental economics, policy, planning and engineering issues on a regional, national and international scale; renewable and non renewable resources; dynamic modeling techniques as applied to environmental resources and conditions

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6075

240 899 5793

mruth1@umd.edu

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Mark Sagoff

Senior Research Scholar

Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Invasive species; philosophy and ethical considerations for genetic engineering, biotechnology and agriculture; environmental valuation; environmental ethics

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4762

301-229-7666

msagoff@umd.edu

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Ross J. Salawitch

Prof

Atmospheric & Oceanic Science, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, Chemistry/Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Effect of human activity on climate change (popularly called global warming), air quality, and the ozone layer.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5396

rsalawit@umd.edu

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Thomas C. Schelling

Dist Univ Prof

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Schelling won 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in game theory. He has published highly influential works in a many areas including nuclear proliferation & arms control, terrorism, organized crime, energy & environmental policy, climate change, and racial segregation. CONTACT:301-405-4621

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3494

tschelli@umd.edu

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Laura J. Shaffer

Asst Prof

Anthropology

Expertise Key Words:
human-environment interactions, historical ecology, indigenous knowledge, rural livelihoods, conservation, climate change adaptation and resilience, Southern and Eastern Africa

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1423

lshaffe1@umd.edu

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Gerald M. Stokes

Adjunct Prof in ESSIC & Vice President, International Partnerships in the JGCRI

Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) & Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Ctr (ESSIC)

Expertise Key Words:
climate change; climate and the design of large-scale field research facilities; climate change and technology revolution; global change and long term energy strategy

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301-314-6704
301-405-0050

stokes@pnl.gov

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Joseph H. Sullivan

Associate Professor

Plant Science & Landscape Architecture

Expertise Key Words:
Global Climate Change, Stratospheric Ozone, UV-B radiation, Plant Physiology, Ecology, Ecophysiology, Forest Biology, Urban Forestry, atmospheric carbon dioxide increases, stress physiology, secondary chemistry

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1626

301-641-5115

jsull@umd.edu

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David R. Tilley

Assistant Professor

Environmental Science & Technology

Expertise Key Words:
Environmental accounting; Remote sensing; wetland health, alternative energy evaluation

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8027

dtilley@umd.edu

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John R. Townshend

Prof And Dean BSOS, Prof & Chair Geography, Affiliate Prof ESSIC & CS

College of Behaviorial and Social Sciences/Geography

Expertise Key Words:
vegetative land cover change impacts on climate change & variability, the global carbon cycle, biodiversity and sustainability; remote sensing of land cover change; creation of new information systems, products & data sets for improved depiction of land cover change at regional and global scales

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1691

jtownshe@umd.edu

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Konstantin Vinnikov

Sr Res Sci

Atmospheric & Oceanic Science

Expertise Key Words:
numerical models and observations,global or large-scale data sets of conventional and satellite-retrieved data to study the ocean-land-atmosphere climatic system, cryosphere (sea ice and snow cover) and its interaction with atmospheric and hydrospheric processes

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5382

kostya@umd.edu

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Ning Zeng

Aff Assoc Prof, Assoc Prof, Affil Assoc Prof

Atmospheric & Oceanic Science

Expertise Key Words:
Climate change and variability over seasonal-yearly to glacial-interglacial cycle time frames; Earth system - the atmosphere, the hydrosphere and the biosphere; carbon cycle-climate interaction; modeling of atmosphere-land-vegetation-ocean system; technological, policy implications of climate change

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5377

zeng@umd.edu

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Yun Zhou

Res Assoc

Ctr for Intl Security Studies at Maryland

Expertise Key Words:
Nuclear material safety under dry storage, human health risk assessment associated with the introduction of genetically modified crops, ecosystem dynamics and biodiversity. At CISSM, she works on energy policy, nuclear non-proliferation and climate change issues.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4020

yzhou@umd.edu

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