The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report Working Group II released its report on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability on Monday, 28 February. 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].
Topical experts for the media: IPCC Working Group II report on the impacts of climate change
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. Susan Anenberg, George Washington University; GeoHealth editor. Dr. Anenberg is an expert in assessing the health impacts of climate change and air pollution, and the health co-benefits that would come from greenhouse gas mitigation actions.
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Dr. Susanne Benz, Dalhousie University. Dr. Benz is a Banting postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Her work combines (big) data science with geospatial data to study the impacts of urbanization on society and nature. She is particularly interested in the role of the built environment on atmospheric, surface, and subsurface temperature disparities.
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Dr. Nina Buchmann, ETH Zurich; AGU Fellow. Dr. Buchmann’s research focuses on the process- and system-oriented understanding of the biogeochemistry in agroecosystems and forests, in particular the biosphere-atmosphere greenhouse gas exchange (including CO2, H2O vapor, CH4, N2O), both in response to human and biophysical drivers, across spatial and temporal scales. She quantifies ecosystem responses to weather, climate and management, identifies carbon sinks and sources, and tests different management solutions to reduce the environmental footprint of agriculture.
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Dr. Gabriel M. Filippelli, Executive Director, Environmental Resilience Institute at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; GeoHealth Editor in Chief. Dr. Filippelli studies climate change science and impacts, with particular focuses on water resources, climate justice, climate-health links, and working with communities to prepare for climate change impacts.
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Dr. Anna M. Michalak, Director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science; AGU Fellow. Dr. Michalak’s research interests lie in two areas. The first is assessing the impacts of climate change on inland and coastal water quality via influences on nutrient delivery to, and on conditions within, water bodies. The second area is understanding and quantifying the cycling and emissions of greenhouse gases at the Earth surface at urban to global scales – scales directly relevant to informing climate and policy – primarily through the use of atmospheric observations that provide the clearest constraints at these critical scales.
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Dr. Renee Obringer, Pennsylvania State University; AGU Fellow. Dr. Obringer’s expertise focuses on climate change impacts to water and electricity demand, as well as the effect those changes may have on the relevant infrastructure systems (e.g., how changes in electricity demand due to warming temperatures will impact the electric grid). Additionally, she works on interdependent infrastructure, such as the water-energy nexus, and how climate change will impact these systems jointly, potentially exacerbating existing issues.
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Dr. Steward Pickett, Cary Institute. Dr. Pickett is an urban ecological scientist and landscape ecologist, who has worked extensively with urban planners, urban designers, and landscape architects. His research on natural disturbance, urban ecosystem structure and function, and equity of green stormwater infrastructure in urban environments is relevant to climate change.
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Dr. Roopam Shukla, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research; Community Science editor. Dr. Shukla researches differential vulnerability and adaptation responses to climate change in smallholder farming systems, including extensively in India and Africa.
Dr. Shukla is a contributing author for Chapter 16 in this IPCC report, on equity in adaptation responses.
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Dr. Jamon Van Den Hoek, Oregon State University. Dr. Van Den Hoek studies how climate change affects patterns of (voluntary) migration as well as forced displacement (people compelled to move due to persecution or threats of violence), and how climate change and state policies make it very difficult for some people to migrate to other places with better economic, livelihood, or security conditions. He also study how armed conflict affects cities, farms, and forests, and how we need to develop anticipatory rather than reactionary approaches to humanitarian action.
Dr. Van Den Hoek is a contributing author for ‘Chapter 8: Poverty, livelihoods and sustainable development’ in this IPCC report.
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