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Appendix B: Committee Member Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Committee Member Biographical Sketches
Pages 325-332
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He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change. He was a coordinating lead author or lead author on the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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These publications have been cited more than 32,000 times in the scientific literature, with more than 70 cited 100 or more times each. He was a lead author of the 2013 Third National Climate Assessment Water Resources chapter, co-edited State of Bay-Delta Science Reports in 2008 and 2016, led the California Fourth Climate-Change Assessment Sierra Nevada Region Report in 2018, and was the AGU Tyndall Lecturer on History of Global Environmental Change in 2021.
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Her expertise intersects multiple topic areas, including climate impacts, adaptation, and mitigation; environmental regulations; water law, regulation, and policy; energy and energy-transition regulation and policy; health, including nutrition, and infectious and vector-borne diseases; and social and environmental justice issues.
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She served as the senior climate scientist at the Logistics Management Institute advising the Obama administration and New York City on greenhouse gas management and climate impacts after 4 years at the National Science Foundation (NSF) , directed carbon cycle science and biogeoscience research and represented NSF at the United States Global Change Research Program, leading on international efforts on carbon cycle research and managing the North American Carbon Program.
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She leads the Westchester County Climate Crisis Task Force Health and Community Resilience teams, develops university capstone projects, and works with communities to address equitable climate mitigation and adaptation.
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He is now active in the emerging carbon financial markets and applications of his research to carbon sequestration and domestic and international climate change mitigation programs, and in developing methods for carbon offsets under cap-and-trade carbon regulations. This includes work with the California Climate and Forest Fund and the Chicago Climate Exchange, membership on US government advisory groups, and an advisory role for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
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As a very senior member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He has served as the co-vice-chair of the Third US National Climate Assessment and on many National Academies' panels -- including Susan Solomon's Stabilization Panel and both the Adaptation Panel and overarching panel of America's Climate Choices.
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