Appendix C
Committee Member Biographical Sketches
Jerry M. Melillo (Chair, NAS) is a Distinguished Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory whose work focuses on understanding the impacts of human activities on the biogeochemistry of ecological systems using a combination of field studies and simulation modeling. His field studies include soil-warming experiments at the Harvard Forest in central Massachusetts and in northern Sweden and long-term observations of greenhouse gas emissions associated with deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Dr. Melillo and his team have developed and used a simulation model called the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM) to consider the impacts of various aspects of global change on the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems across the globe. TEM is part of the Integrated Global Systems Model, an integrated assessment model based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Melillo had a leadership role in the first three National Climate Assessments.
Kristie L. Ebi (Vice Chair) is a Professor in the Department of Global Health and in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington. She has been conducting research and practice on the health risks of climate variability and change for nearly 25 years, focusing on understanding sources of vulnerability, estimating current and future health risks of climate change, designing adaptation policies and measures to reduce risks in multi-stressor environments, and estimating the health co-benefits of mitigation policies. She has supported multiple countries in Central America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific in assessing their vulnerabilities and implementing adaptation policies and programs. She has been an author on multiple national and international climate change assessments, including the Fourth U.S. National Climate Assessment and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C. She is co-chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Board on Environment and Society, the International Committee on New Integrated Climate Change Assessment Scenarios, and the Future Earth Health Knowledge Action Network. She is a member of the Earth Commission and of the Earth League. Dr. Ebi’s scientific training includes an M.S. in toxicology and a Ph.D. and a Masters of Public Health in epidemiology, as well as postgraduate research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She edited fours books on aspects of climate change and published more than 200 papers.
Susan Anenberg is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and of Global Health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. Dr. Anenberg studies the health implications of air pollution and climate change, from local to global scales. Dr. Anenberg has been a Co-Founder and Partner at Environmental Health Analytics, LLC, the Deputy Managing Director for Recommendations at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, an environmental scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and a senior advisor for clean cookstove initiatives at the U.S. State Department. Her research has been published in top academic journals such as Science, Nature, and Lancet Planetary Health. She has also led or contributed to many science-policy reports on air quality and climate change
published by U.S. EPA, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme, and others. She has previously served on National Academies’ planning committees for workshops on understanding air pollution from wildfires and leveraging remote geospatial technologies for precision environmental health. She also serves as the Secretary of the American Geophysical Union’s GeoHealth section and as Editor of the GeoHealth journal. She received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and Engineering and Environmental Policy from the University of North Carolina and a B.A. in Biology and Environmental Science from Northwestern University.
Sara R. Curran is a demographer and Professor of International Studies, Sociology, and Public Policy & Governance at the University of Washington. She holds an Adjunct Professor of Global Health appointment at the University of Washington. She currently serves as the Director of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology and manages an NICHD research infrastructure grant to advance population science. Her research examines population dynamics (migration, settlement, and population change) in relation to climate and environmental change, as well as economic development. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology & Demography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994.
Paul Fleming leads the Global Water Program for Microsoft. Paul joined Microsoft to build its corporate water stewardship program and has helped establish Microsoft as a leader in the corporate water stewardship space. In addition to driving the company’s operational water commitments, Mr. Fleming drives collaborative partnerships with other companies and nongovernmental organizations and serves as the company’s water subject matter expert, advising business groups on water issues. He is on the leadership committee of the Water Resilience Coalition, a group of 18 companies focused on collective action to improve conditions in water-stressed regions around the world, and serves on the steering committee of the CEO Water Mandate. Previously, Mr. Fleming developed and directed the Seattle Public Utilities’ (SPU’s) Climate Resiliency Group, where he was responsible for directing SPU’s climate research initiatives, assessing climate risks, mainstreaming adaptation and mitigation strategies, and establishing collaborative partnerships. Mr. Fleming has been an active participant in several national and international efforts focused on water and climate change. He contributed to the 2014 U.S. National Climate Assessment, serving as a Convening Lead Author of the Water Resources chapter and the Sustained Assessment Special Report and a Lead Author of the Adaptation chapter. He is a Past Chair of the Water Utility Climate Alliance and chaired the Project Advisory Board of a research project focused on climate change and water management funded through the EU Horizon 2020 Program. Mr. Fleming has a B.A. in economics from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the University of Washington.
Sarah K. Fortner is currently a Science Education Associate at the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College. She develops research and education collaborations to advance climate resilience and environmental justice. This includes projects engaging grassroots organizations, community development and health leaders, and faculty networks. Dr. Fortner leads civic visioning in the geosciences and higher education, including serving on the steering committee for the NAS Workshop on Service Learning in the Undergraduate Geosciences (2018) and advising the Association of American Colleges and Universities Civic Prompts in the Major (2020). Through collaboration with national organizations including the Union of Concerned
Scientists, the American Geosciences Institute, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, and the American Geophysical Union she has led workshops and webinars helping faculty and interdisciplinary programs plan and strengthen sustainability education and local partnerships. Dr. Fortner also has 20 years of biogeochemical expertise including collaboration with the McMurdo Long Term Ecological Research Program. She also serves on the Academic and Research Council for the longest running glacier field education program, the Juneau Icefield Research Program. She holds a B.S. in Geology and Geophysics (1999) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a M.S. (2002) and Ph.D. (2009) in Earth Sciences from The Ohio State University.
Miriam Gay-Antaki is an Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of New Mexico. Their work focuses on human-environment relations in the era of anthropogenic global climate change. They trace climate change policy development ranging from formal political spaces, such as the UN Conference of the Parties, to scientific spaces, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to the towns and communities where climate policies are implemented. Dr. Gay-Antaki’s work investigates the participation, and sometimes the exclusion, of women scientists and stakeholders in international climate change research and policy arenas. For instance, their work on women climate scientists’ perceptions of their participation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and covered in the media in outlets such as the Popular Science website and BBC Radio. This work influenced IPCC’s decision to form a UN gender task force to increase equity in climate science. Dr. Gay-Antaki participated in this task force representing Mexico. In a publication in Geoforum they offer empirical and theoretical insights to better understand mechanisms that maintain social hierarchies in the climate debate and how these are resisted at the Conference of the Parties, the most important international meeting surrounding climate change policy. In the context of Mexico, Dr. Gay-Antaki studies the ways in which societal structures shape the development and implementation of transnational climate change policies such as gendered climate interventions. This work appears in the Journal of Latin American Geography and Gender, Place and Culture. To build healthy and resilient communities by facilitating dialogue among diverse interest groups is one of their priorities as the new Associate Director for the RH Mallory Center for Community Geography at the University of New Mexico. They have also worked alongside the Aspen Global Change Institute and 500 Women Scientists, the Mexican Council for Science and Technology Network on Gender, Environment and Society, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico Multidisciplinary Climate Change Team toward this goal. Dr. Gay-Antaki received their Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Arizona in 2017.
Sherri W. Goodman is an experienced leader and senior executive, lawyer, and board director in the fields of national security, climate change, energy, science, oceans, and environment. Ms. Goodman serves as the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security, the global forum for military leaders and security professionals dedicated to addressing the security risks of a changing climate. She is a Senior Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute and Environmental Change & Security Program and Senior Strategist at the Center for Climate and Security. Previously, she served as the President and CEO of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. Ms. Goodman served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of CNA (Center for Naval Analyses) where she was also the founder and Executive Director of the CNA
Military Advisory Board. Ms. Goodman served as the first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security) from 1993-2001. She has practiced law at Goodwin Procter, as both a litigator and environmental attorney, and has worked at RAND and SAIC. Ms. Goodman is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, served on its Arctic Task Force in 2016, and chaired the Advisory Committee on Governing Solar Geo-Engineering in 2022. A summa cum laude graduate of Amherst College, she has degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School. She received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Amherst College in 2018.
Alison M. Grantham is a scientist who brings a methodical, analytical, and quantitative approach to her work with nonprofits, private sector businesses, and foundations to improve our food system through her practice, Grow Well Consulting. Current and recent projects include improving climate impacts of pasture-raised poultry; greenhouse gas, water and waste footprinting for an indoor agriculture business; a national urban food waste and food insecurity analysis and report; global seafood traceability to support food safety and sustainability outcomes; and a FLAG sector scope 3 engagement for an international environmental NGO. Prior to launching Grow Well, she led Food Systems R&D and then Food Procurement at Blue Apron, overseeing food sourcing and procurement and implementing a national program to increase employee access to surplus product, as well as local communities through partnerships with Feeding America. While there, she also served on the National Academies’ Ad Hoc Reducing Food Loss and Waste Committee. Previously, she led research at the Rodale Institute, including all aspects of organic and sustainable agriculture research. Alison holds a dual-title Ph.D. in Ecology and Biogeochemistry from Pennsylvania State University (2015) and B.A. summa cum laude in Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies from Mount Holyoke College (2008).
Kimberly L. Jones has over 26 years of experience in the civil and environmental engineering. She currently serves as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education (College of Engineering and Architecture) and Professor and Chair (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) at Howard University. Dr. Jones’ areas of research expertise are in environmental justice, water quality and reuse, resource recovery, environmental management, and environmental nanotechnology. Dr. Jones holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Howard University (1990), a M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois (1992), and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University (1996). Her research interests include water and wastewater quality, environmental policy, membrane separations, global water treatment, environmental justice, risk evaluation, and environmental nanotechnology. Dr. Jones has served on the Chartered Science Advisory Board of the U.S. EPA, where she chaired the Drinking Water Committee and was liaison to the National Drinking Water Advisory Council. She currently serves on the Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education at the National Science Foundation. She is an alternate Commissioner of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin in Washington, DC, where she chairs the committee on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. She also serves on the Center Steering Committee of the Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology and on the Management Board of the Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation and as Associate Director for Diversity in the Urban Water Innovation Network. Dr. Jones has served on the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Academy of Sciences, and the
Board of Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, where she was Secretary of the Board. She has served on several committees of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She served as the Deputy Director of the Keck Center for Nanoscale Materials for Molecular Recognition at Howard University. Dr. Jones has received the Researcher of the Year award from Howard University, a Top Women in Science Award from the National Technical Association, the Outstanding Young Civil Engineer award from University of Illinois Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, a NSF CAREER Award, an Outstanding Leadership and Service and Outstanding Faculty Mentor award from Howard University, and Top Women Achievers award from Essence Magazine.
Valerie J. Karplus is an Associate Professor in the department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, Karplus served as an Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Karplus studies resource and environmental management in firms operating in diverse national and industry contexts, with a focus on the role of institutions and management practices in explaining performance. Karplus is an expert on China’s energy system, including technology and business model innovation, energy system governance, and the management of air pollution and climate change. She works with a collaborative team of researchers to study the micro and macro determinants of clean energy transitions in emerging markets, with a focus on China and India. She teaches Entrepreneurship without Borders, New Models for Global Business, and is currently developing a new course, together with Professor Chris Warshaw in Political Science, on Global Energy Markets and Policy. She has previously worked in the development policy section of the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany, as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow, and in the biotechnology industry in Beijing, China, as a Luce Scholar. From 2011 to 2015, she directed the MIT-Tsinghua China Energy and Climate Project, a five-year research effort focused on analyzing the design of energy and climate change policy in China and its domestic and global impacts. She is a faculty affiliate of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, the MIT Energy Initiative, and the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Karplus holds a B.S. in biochemistry and political science from Yale University and a Ph.D. in engineering systems from MIT.
Carlos E. Martín is a Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program and Director of the Remodeling Futures Program at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. Martín, a trained architect and construction engineer, uses his technical training to connect the on the physical quality of housing and communities—technology, workers, and environmental performance and exposures—to its social outcomes. His areas of expertise include green housing, disaster mitigation, climate adaptation, housing quality, and building codes. Recent work includes evaluations of HUD’s post-Sandy Rebuild by Design formation; the National Disaster Resilience Competition’s Resilience Academies; home rebuilding rates with Community Development Block Grants for Disaster Recovery; and the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilience Cities. Current independent research include studies of equity in energy-efficiency programs and flood mitigation infrastructure, planning and governance of adaptation authority, access to housing-related adaptation resources, and the capacity of climate-migrant receiving communities—the last supported by the National Academy of Sciences’ Gulf Research Program. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, assistant staff vice president for construction codes and standards at the National Association of
Home Builders, SRP Professor for Energy and the Environment at Arizona State University’s Del E. Webb School of Construction and School of Architecture, and coordinator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing. Martín received his B.S.A.D. in architecture from MIT and his M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford.
Linda O. Mearns is Head of the Regional Integrated Sciences Collective within the Computational and Information Systems Lab and the Research Applications Lab, and Senior Scientist, at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado. She served as Director of the Institute for the Study of Society and Environment for 3 years ending in 2008. She holds a Ph.D. in geography/climatology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has performed research and published mainly in the areas of climate change scenario formation, quantifying uncertainties, and climate change impacts on agroecosystems. She has particularly worked extensively with regional climate models. She has been an author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Climate Change 1995, 2001, 2007, 2014 and current (2021) 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 Sixth Assessment Report, she is a lead author of the Atlas in Working Group I and a Review Editor for the North America Chapter in Working Group II. She led the multi-agency supported North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program, which provided multiple high-resolution climate change scenarios for the North American impacts community and is currently the co-Chair of the NA-CORDEX regional modeling program. She has been a member of the National Research Council Climate Research Committee, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Panel on Adaptation of the America’s Climate Choices Program, and the NAS Human Dimensions of Global Change Committee. She has worked extensively with resource managers (e.g., water resource managers and ecologists) to form climate change scenarios for use in adaptation planning.
Philip W. Mote is Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School and remains active in the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI). As Dean, he has established a number of strategic initiatives to accelerate student-centered and equitable graduate education including implementing holistic admissions, launching a new interdisciplinary program, training all graduate faculty in effective mentoring, and offering all graduate students opportunities to acquire transferrable skills. As Vice Provost, he has replaced the university’s cumbersome approach to reviewing undergraduate and graduate programs with a holistic review of entire academic units. He served for several years in leadership of the 60,000-member American Geophysical Union: six years in leadership of the Global Environmental Change section, four years as member of the Council, two years as Vice Chair of the Council Leadership Team, and two years as a member of the Board of Directors. Dr. Mote was the founding director (2009-19) of OCCRI and remains involved in communicating climate science. He has served as a lead author for the Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on three US National Climate Assessments, and on nine committees of the National Academies, including chair of the Review of the Climate Science Special Report.
Deb A. Niemeier (NAE) is the Clark Distinguished Chair in Energy and Sustainability at the University of Maryland, College Park, a professor in the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and an affiliate professor in the College of Information Studies. Her current research includes collaborations with sociologists, planners, geographers, veterinary medicine, and education faculty to examine formal and informal governance processes in urban landscapes and to better characterize risk associated with outcomes in the intersection of finance, housing and infrastructure, and environmental hazards. Her international development work is aimed at agricultural sustainability, and her current education research is focused on data science in engineering and the operational challenges of K-12 infrastructure. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for “distinguished contributions to energy and environmental science study and policy development;” a Guggenheim Fellow for foundational work on pro bono service in engineering, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Philosophical Society.
Osvaldo E. Sala is the Julie A. Wrigley, Regents’ and Foundation Professor at Arizona State University, where he contributes to both the School of Life Sciences and School of Sustainability. He is also the Founding Director of the Global Drylands Center. He came to ASU in 2010 from Brown University, where he was the founding Director of the Environmental Change Initiative and the Sloan Lindemann Professor of Biology. Dr. Sala has been trained as an ecologist working from the local to the global levels. He is known for his large-scale field manipulative experiments simulating climate change around the world. At the global scale, he has developed highly-cited scenarios of biodiversity change for the year 2100. His work has been truly interdisciplinary, collaborating with geologists, social scientists, mathematicians, and humanists. Dr. Sala received his Ph.D. (1982) and M.Sc. (1980) from Colorado State University and his B.Sc. from University of Buenos Aires (1973). Dr. Sala served in numerous international institutions, from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to President of the Ecological Society of America. He has been a contributor to several reports associated with global change including the IPCC’s Global Biodiversity Assessment and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. His publications have been impactful as reflected in the more than 53,000 citations. He has received several recognitions to his academic work including being an elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of Argentina, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Ecological Society of America.
Paul A. Sandifer is Director of the Center for Coastal Environmental and Human Health at the College of Charleston, SC, and Deputy Director for the Center for Oceans and Human Health and Climate Change Interactions at the University of South Carolina. He is experienced in ecological and aquaculture research, natural resource management, science policy, and environmental health science. Previously he worked nearly 12 years in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) overseeing the agency’s Oceans and Human Health Program and as Senior Science Advisor to the NOAA Administrator and Chief Science Advisor for the National Ocean Service. Before NOAA, Dr. Sandifer worked 31 years as a scientist and manager, including as agency Director, with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. He served on the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, and he is an Honorary Life Member of the World Aquaculture Society and a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and the Ecological Society of America. He received a B.S. degree in biology from the College of Charleston and Ph.D. in marine science from the University of Virginia. His most recent work has concentrated on ocean health-human health linkages, human health impacts of disasters including the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill, climate impacts in coastal areas, and ocean/science policy.
Henry G. Schwartz, Jr. (NAE) is a nationally recognized civil and environmental engineering leader who spent most of his career with Sverdrup Civil Inc. (now Jacobs Civil Inc.). In 1993 Dr. Schwartz was named president and chairman, directing the transportation, public works, and environmental activities of this international engineering firm before he retired in 2003. He has served on the advisory boards for Carnegie Mellon University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Texas at Austin. He is President Emeritus of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Water Environment Federation, and the Academy of Science of St. Louis, and the founding chairman of the Water Environment Research Foundation. Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997, Dr. Schwartz has served on a number of National Research Council (NRC) study committees, including the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB’s) Committee for a Future Strategic Highway Research Program, and on the NRC Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment. He chaired the policy study committee that produced the report Potential Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Transportation. A convening lead author on National Climate Assessment (NCA) 2 and NCA 3, he has authored other papers focused on adaptation to climate change. For many years, he was on the TRB Executive Committee and served as Vice Chair of TRB’s Subcommittee for NRC Oversight, in which capacity he was the final review authority for about 100 published, transportation research reports. Dr. Schwartz earned a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees from Washington University. He is a registered professional engineer.
Rachael Shwom is an associate professor in the School of Environmental and Biological Science’s Department of Human Ecology and Acting Director of the Rutgers Energy Institute. She conducts research that links sociology, psychology, engineering, economics, and public policy to investigate how social and political factors influence society’s responses to energy and climate problems. Rachael is currently a Co-PI on a multi-university, $3 million National Science Foundation grant on “Reducing Household Food, Energy and Water Consumption: A Quantitative Analysis of Interventions and Impacts of Conservation” and a newly awarded grant “Responses to Complex Disruptive Events: Cognition in a Socio-Political Context.” She is Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Environmental Sociology Section. Dr. Shwom was a Christine Mirzayan Science Technology and Policy Fellow at the National Academies of Sciences and a Michigan State University Environmental Science and Policy Fellowship recipient (Ph.D., Sociology 2009). From 2001-2004, Dr. Shwom worked in the utility demand side management sector and before that earned her M.E.M. from the Nicholas School at Duke University (2001) and B.A. in English and Textual Studies from Syracuse University (1999).
Joel B. Smith has been analyzing climate change impacts and adaptation issues for over three decades. He was a coordinating lead author or lead author on the on Third, Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Mr. Smith was an author on three U.S. National Climate Change Assessments (NCA), including Chapter Lead on
the International Chapter for the fourth NCA. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change. Mr. Smith has provided technical advice, guidance, and training on assessing climate change impacts and adaptation to people around the world and to international organizations, the U.S. government, states, municipalities, and the non-profit and private sectors. He worked for the U.S. EPA from 1984 to 1992, where he was the deputy director of Climate Change Division. He has been a consultant since 1992, having worked for Hagler Bailly, Stratus Consulting, and Abt Associates. Mr. Smith received a B.A. from Williams College in 1979 (graduating magna cum laude), and a M.P.P. from the University of Michigan in 1982.
Robert H. Socolow is professor emeritus, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University; he taught a Freshman Seminar in the fall semester through 2021. Dr. Socolow earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in theoretical high-energy physics in 1964, was an assistant professor of physics at Yale University from l966 to l97l, and joined the Princeton University faculty in 1971 with the assignment of inventing interdisciplinary environmental research. Dr. Socolow is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His awards include the 2009 Frank Kreith Energy Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the 2005 Axelson Johnson Commemorative Lecture award from the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences of Sweden (IVA). In 2003 he received the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society (“for leadership in establishing energy and environmental problems as legitimate research fields for physicists, and for demonstrating that these broadly defined problems can be addressed with the highest scientific standards”). Dr. Socolow is an associate of the National Research Council of the National Academies, in recognition of National Academies committee work. He served as a member of the Grand Challenges for Engineering Committee of the National Academy of Engineering and of the National Academies Committees on America’s Climate Choices and America’s Energy Future. Earlier committees included the Committee on Alternatives and Strategies for Future Hydrogen Production and Use (2002-2004) and the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change (1992-98). From 2000 to 2019, Dr. Socolow and Steve Pacala were the co-principal investigator of Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative, cmi.princeton.edu, a twenty-five-year (2001-2025) project supported by BP. His best-known paper, with Pacala, was in Science (2004): “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies.” Dr. Socolow has also introduced “one billion high emitters,” “committed emissions,” and “destiny studies,” as further conceptual decade-scale frameworks useful for climate change policy. His interests include energy efficiency in buildings, CO2 capture and storage, technological “leapfrogging” by developing countries, and the conditionalities required for safe climate-change “solutions”— notably to protect against nuclear weapons proliferation and misuse of the land. Dr. Socolow was the editor of Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, 1992-2002. He was on the Board of the National Audubon Society, the Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisory Board, and the Advisory Board of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was the chair of the Panel on Public Affairs of the American Physical Society (APS), during which time he co-chaired the APS Technology Assessment, Direct Air Capture of CO2 with Chemicals (2011). He is currently a member of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Julie A. Vano is the Research Director at the Aspen Global Change Institute, an organization dedicated to advancing global change science and solutions. Dr. Vano’s research integrates elements of hydrology, water resource management, science policy, and climate impacts. She works closely with water utilities and U.S. federal water agencies to connect climate science and decision making. This has included being a lead in developing the Water Utility Climate Alliance’s Leading Practices in Climate Adaptation report and the Bureau of Reclamation’s Water Reliability in the West—2021 SECURE Water Act Report. She helped co-found the Mountain West Climate Services Partnership, an initiative to make science more relevant and accessible for communities across the Mountain West. Dr. Vano is president of the Science and Society section of the American Geophysical Union and holds an M.S. in Land Resources from the University of Wisconsin (2005) and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington (2013). Dr. Vano’s previous National Academies activities include work with the Water Science and Technology Board as a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow.
Alyssa K. Whitcraft is the Deputy Director and Program Manager for NASA Harvest, a diverse Consortium of more than 50 institutions focused on advancing the use of satellite data by agricultural and food security decision makers. She is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, and since 2015, she has served as Program Scientist for G20’s Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM). She serves as Agriculture Point of Contact to the world’s space agencies (through CEOS), co-leads GEOGLAM’s Capacity Development Team, and is Founder and Director of the Agricultural Monitoring in the Americas Initiative. She is an expert in organizational change with respect to integrating new satellite technologies into work flows. She has developed collaborations and partnership models with public and private sector, emphasizing sustainable business models and value to all actors. Dr. Whitcraft, having grown up working in her family winery, also understands well the challenges of high-quality agricultural production in the context of climate change, extreme weather events, and land mismanagement.
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth System Science and Center Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Her research focuses on applying behavioral decision research methods to address challenges associated with global environmental change. Dr. Wong-Parodi seeks to understand the psychosocial and contextual factors that influence people’s responses to environmental change—especially extremes—over time, with a particular focus on those communities that have been historically marginalized or disproportionately impacted by climate change. She also uses behavioral decision science approaches to create and evaluate evidence-based strategies for informed decision making, with a particular focus on building resilience and promoting sustainability in the face of a changing climate. Dr. Wong-Parodi has a background in climate change adaptation and mitigation, energy technologies and resources, extreme weather events, and low-carbon technologies. She was an invited speaker at the Sackler Colloquia at the National Academy of Sciences on the Science of Science Communication. She recently served on the National Academy of Sciences committee “Long-term Coastal Zone Dynamics: Interactions and Feedbacks between Natural and Human Processes and their Implications for the U.S. Coastline.” Dr. Wong-Parodi is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her B.S. in Psychology at the University of
California Berkeley, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Risk Perceptions and Communication from the University of California, Berkeley.
Brian L. Zuckerman is a Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI). Dr. Zuckerman’s areas of emphasis at STPI are in the areas of program evaluation and scientometrics, where his work focuses on federal research and development program performance and agency-wide research portfolios. Dr. Zuckerman has also analyzed federal research and development data systems and statistical data collection programs. Before joining STPI, he was a principal at C-STPS, LLC and at the Center for Science and Technology Policy of Abt Associates, Inc. He is a former co-chair of the Research, Technology, and Development Topical Interest Group of the American Evaluation Association. Dr. Zuckerman holds a B.A. in chemistry from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in technology, management, and policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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