The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report Working Group III will release its report on the mitigation of climate change on Monday, 4 April, 2022. AGU has compiled a list of relevant experts available for media comment, available below. Our other lists of experts for the media may also be of use. For any further inquiries, please email [email protected].
Dr. Susan Lozier, AGU President, Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Lozier is a physical oceanographer with an interest in large-scale ocean circulation. Overall, her research focuses on the ocean’s role in climate variability and climate change. She studies the meridional overturning circulation of the ocean and how that circulation impacts the transfer of heat and fresh water from one part of the ocean to another. Her research also focuses on understanding the physical controls on marine productivity.
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Dr. Lisa Graumlich, AGU President-elect, University of Washington. Dr. Graumlich is an environmental and climate scientist who studies the causes and impacts of climate change. Her expertise is on using paleoecological records such as tree rings to understand the magnitude of human impacts on the planet.
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Dr. Robert Kopp is a climate scientist at Rutgers University and an editor of the AGU journal Earth’s Future. His research focuses on past and future sea-level change, the interactions between physical climate change and the economy, and the use of climate risk information in decision-making. He was a lead author of the Working Group 1 (Physical Science) contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report and a contributing author to the Working Group 2 (Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability) report.
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Dr. Heidi Steltzer is a mountain scientist & explorer who studies the impacts & adaptations to global change in mountain regions. She lives in the rural, southwest & is a professor in environment & sustainability at Fort Lewis College. She was a lead author on High Mountain Areas in the 2019 IPCC Special Report on the Oceans & Cryosphere in a Changing Climate & testified in 2020 before US Congress on the climate crisis.
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Phone: 970-799-4536
Dr. Leah Stokes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and a faculty affiliate at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She works on energy, climate and environmental politics. Within environmental politics, she researches climate change, renewable energy, water and chemicals policy.
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Dr. Fabian Wagner has been studying climate mitigation, technologies and co-benefits on air pollution from a systems perspective for nearly 20 years. He is particularly interested in supporting policy makers in taking tough science-based decisions. He is also Editor in Chief of the Journal Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change.
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Dr. Gary Yohe is the Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Emeritus with Wesleyan University. He has served as a convening author of many chapters and Synthesis Reports for Working Groups II and III to the Third through Fifth IPCC assessment reports. He currently serves as Co-editor-in-Chief of Climatic Change. His areas of expertise include the fundamentals of iterative risk management as related to both adaptation and mitigation, detection and adaptation of climate risks, the economics of extreme events, and research design for a planet where tipping points are being detected and modeled.
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