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Appendix B Committee on Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Member Biographies
Pages 53-58

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... Field has led major experiments on grassland responses to global change, experiments that integrate approaches from molecular biology to remote sensing at the ecosystem-scale. His activities in building the culture of global ecology include service on many national and international committees, including committees of the National Research Council, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, and the Earth System Science Partnership.
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... Chapin has participated in several international commissions focused on the environment and climate, including the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He was the first Alaskan elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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... National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. He also was an author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Land-Use Change and Forestry, the Global Biodiversity Assessment, and a coordinating lead author in the recently published Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
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From page 56...
... For the past several years the focus of her work has been on current impacts of climate change on wildlife in the 20th century. Her work on butterfly range shifts has been highlighted in many scientific and popular press reports, such as in Science, Science News, New York Times, London Times, National Public Radio, and the recent BBC film series State of the Planet with David Attenborough.
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... Dr. Schneider's current global change research interests include climatic change, global warming, food and climate and other environmental science public policy issues, ecological and economic implications of climatic change, integrated assessment of global change, climatic modeling of paleoclimates and of human impacts on climate (carbon dioxide greenhouse effect and environmental consequences of nuclear war, for example)
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