Name:

CHERYL ANDERSON

Title:

Planner and Program Manager

Institution:

University of Hawaii Social Science Research Institute

Location:

Honolulu, Hawaii

Bio:

Cheryl L Anderson, a certified urban and regional planner (AICP), has worked at the University of Hawaii Social Science Research Institute for seven years, during which time she has conducted impact assessments of the 1997-98 ENSO warm event in the US-affiliated Pacific Islands, collaborated on research of the Pacific ENSO Applications Center (PEAC), and facilitated national and regional planning workshops on climate variability and change in the Pacific Islands, West Africa, and Southeast Asia. She has been involved in hazard mitigation planning throughout the Pacific, including preparation of water development and drought mitigation plans in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia and recent Hawaii State and Kauai County Hazard Mitigation Plans.

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Name:

SUBBIAH ARUJNAPERMAL

Title:

Team Leader , Climate Risk Management Division

Institution:

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Asian Institute of Technology

Location:

Thailand

Bio:

He is associated with Planning and Implementing extreme climate events programme, climate forecast application in Bangladesh and climate forecast application in Southeast Asia. The major responsibilities are:-

Extreme Climate Events Program

1. Provided research support for Extreme Climate Events Programmes in Southeast Asia supported by OFDA USAID, NOAA OGP. This programme covered Indonesia, The Philippines and in Vietnam. The objective of the programme was to utilize ENSO based long lead forecast information for assessment of potential ENSO impacts and assist the country partners to prepare contingency and resource management plans to manage potential disasters in agriculture and water resource management sectors

Climate Forecast Application Project in Bangladesh

1. The climate forecasting application for flood management in collaboration with Programme of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences of (PAOS) of University of Colorado, USA. The objective of the programme is to utilize short, medium and long-lead climate / flood forecasts to manage potential climate risks in Bangladesh.

Climate Forecast Application in Southeast Asia

A climate forecast application is being implemented in collaboration with IRI to institutionalize an end-to-end climate forecast generation application system in Southeast Asia with support from OFDA USAID and NOAA OGP. The activities include institutional development for generation, translation and communication and receive feedback on applying probabilistic climate forecast information at the end users level in high climate risk zones through pilot demonstration projects.

Previously he was associated with Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India to manage all natural disasters. The responsibilities included:

• Disaster Preparedness, Emergency Operations, Rehabilitation, Reconstruction Projects to mitigate the impacts of all natural disasters in the country.
• Preparation and implementation of Contingency Crop Plans to manage Climate variability associated risks on agriculture

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Name:

SANKAR ARUMUGAM

Title:

Post-Doctoral Research Scientist

Institution:

International Reserach Institute for Climate Prediction

Location:

Palisades, NY

Bio:

I received my Ph.D. in water resources engineering from Tufts University and Masters in water resources and environmental engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras . I worked as consultant for World Bank, Washington DC , on the effectiveness of environmental impact assessment in South Asia. My primary research interest is towards understanding, modeling and forecasting hydrological fluxes at large spatial scales based on land surface and climatic indices. I am also interested in water resources planning and analysis, integrated water management and environmental assessment in developing countries.

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Name:

WALTER E. BAETHGEN

Title:

Senior Scientist

Institution:

International Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development Center

Location: 

Montevideo, Uruguay

Bio:

Dr. Walter E. Baethgen is a Senior Scientist in the Research and Development Division of IFDC (International Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development Center). He obtained a B.S. degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Uruguay and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the USA. From 1978 to 1982 Dr. Baethgen worked as a Cropping Systems researcher for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of Uruguay. From 1984 to 1987 he was a Project Assistant at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, where he conducted research in Plant Nutrition, Soil Fertility, Soil Chemistry and Cropping Systems. He also lectured on Soil Science and Computer Applications to Agriculture. In 1987, Dr. Baethgen joined IFDC and started working in Information and Decision Support Systems for the Agricultural Sector. During 1989/90, he acted as a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Colonia, Uruguay. Since 1990 he has been stationed with IFDC in Montevideo, Uruguay, to establish and coordinate regional research programs in collaboration with National and International Institutes, on the development of Information and Decision Support Systems to assess the impact of climate variability and climate change on agricultural sustainability, to define sustainable agricultural production systems, improve decision-making and planning, as well as to measure, monitor and predict the effect of soil and crop management practices on carbon sequestration.

Dr Baethgen has acted as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the United Nations (UNDP, UNIDO), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Bank and the Inter-American Institute for Agricultural Science (IICA). He also acted as consultant for the governments of Brazil, Paraguay, Guatemala and Uruguay, and for the private sector in Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela. He was a lead author for IPCC’s Second (1995) and Third (2001) Assessments Reports, and review editor for IPCC’s special issue on Technology Transfer (2000). He is a member of the advisory committees of the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI) and of CLIMAG (Research Program for Climate Forecasts Applications in Agriculture, World Meteorological Organization). He is also a member of the Expert Teams of two Open Program Area Group (OPAG, WMO): “Impact of climate change/variability on medium to long range prediction for agriculture” and “Verification Systems for Long-Range Forecasts”. He was also a steering committee member during the establishment of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). Dr. Baethgen has over 60 publications to his credit.

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Name:

KO BARRETT

Title:

Director

Institution:

Global Climate Change Program
Office of Environment and Science Policy
Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade
U.S. Agency for International Development

Location:

Washington, DC

Bio:

Ko Barrett leads the Global Climate Change Team for the US Agency for International Development. She manages climate-related activities in more than 40 countries and regions around the world that seek to promote sustainable development, while minimizing the growth in greenhouse gas emissions and reducing vulnerability to climate change. Ms. Barrett has held this position for five years. Prior to working at USAID, she lived overseas for seven years, working on environment policy issues in Egypt and Ukraine.

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Name:

NANCY BELLER-SIMMS

Title:

Manager, Human Dimensions of Global Change Research Program (HDGCR)

Institution:

UCAR-JOSS at NOAA/OGP/CSI

Location:

Silver Spring, MD

Bio:

Nancy Beller-Simms manages the Human Dimensions of Global Change Research Program (HDGCR). Her primary research interest is within the field of natural hazards, specifically with global change and mitigation, preparation, adaptation, and vulnerability issues. She also has an interest in environmental education. She is a geographer with a Ph.D. and B.S. from the University of Maryland and an M.S. from the University of Michigan.

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Name:

LARA WHITELY BINDER

Title:

Outreach Specialist

Institution:

University of Washington Climate Impacts Group

Location:

Seattle, Washington

Bio:

Lara Whitely Binder is an outreach specialist at the University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group (CIG). Lara assists the CIG with its efforts to disseminate information to decision-makers on the impacts of climate variability and climate change on the Pacific Northwest environment, and to support decision makers in the use of this information. Lara is also actively involved in researching how climate impacts may be included in watershed-scale planning.

Lara earned her Master’s Degree in Public Affairs at the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Affairs in 2002. Prior to attending graduate school, Lara served as the Groundwater protection Coordinator for a consortium of public and private groundwater suppliers in the greater Cincinnati, Ohio metropolitan area. As the Coordinator, Lara developed and administered a multi-jurisdictional groundwater protection program.

The CIG is a interdisciplinary research group studying the impact of natural climate variability and global climate change on the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Through these analyses and interaction with the regional stakeholder community, the CIG works to increase the resilience of the Pacific Northwest to fluctuations in climate. Current research focuses on four key sectors: water resources, aquatic and marine ecosystems, forests, and coasts. The CIG is funded by the National Oceeanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Global Programs with additional financial and technical support provided by the University of Washington. The CIG is located in Seattle at the University of Washington with affiliates in Olympia, Washington and Boise, Idaho.

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Name:

RIZALDI BOER

Title:

Head of Climatology Laboratory

Institution:

Department of Geophysics and Meteorology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Bogor Agricultural University

Location:

Bogor, Indonesia

Bio:

Recent Employment History

19 87 to present

Teaching staff at the Department of Geophysics and Meteorology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bogor Agricultural University (Geomet-IPB) is established in 1978. I have supervised more than 40 undergraduate students, and about 15 post graduates students (Master and PhD). Most my research activities dealt with climatic risk analysis and climate change. In the period of 1999-2001, I have been recruited by UNDP Country Office Jakarta as GEF consultant and by UNDP Country Office Phnom Penh as consultant for Cambodian National Team on Enabling Activity Project for Climate Change, by ADPC (Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre) as technical consultant to prepare report on Inventory of climate extreme impact on Agriculture in Indonesia. I have also been assigned by UNDP as one of lead author for the preparation of a technical paper for Adaptation Policy Framework for Climate Change, and by WMO as chairperson for RA V Working Group on Agricultural Meteorology. In addition, I am frequently invited by government institutions to give lecture or to give presentation as invited speaker on climate variability and climate change and instructor in many training activities related to agroclimatology organized by universities, other government institutions and industry. Recently, I have been assigned by UNITAR as a trainer in training workshop on Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Cambodia. I am also involved in many national and international seminar/workshops related to climate change and involved in expert meetings organized by UNFCCC and IPCC to develop adaptation policy framework to climate change coordinated by NCSP-UNDP and UNFCCC secretariat.

University Education:

PhD in Agriculture, graduated in 1994 from Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Sydney, Australia. Thesis: Climatic Constraints on anthesis of wheat in a major wheat growing region of Australia .

Master of Agriculture, graduated in 1990 from Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Sydney, Australia. Thesis: Sensitivity analysis of Pearl Millet Model .

Master of Science in Agroclimatology, graduated in 1989 from Department of Agroclimatology, Post Graduate Program, Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia. Thesis: Effect of shading and liming on radiation use efficiency of soybean grown at Red Yellow Podsolic soil (1st class honours).

B.Sc.Agr. in Agrometeorology , graduated in 1983. Thesis: Effect of using reflectors on yield of tomato intercropped with maize.

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Name:

MOHAMMED SADECK BOULAHYA

Title:

Senior Advisor

Institution:

FirstVoice International

Location:

Algeria

Bio:

MSC–Algiers Univ 1970, Chief Agro-Meteorologist, WMO Class I , 1972

****has been during a continuous career of 30 years ( 1973-2003),dealing mainly with Human Capacity Building and Program development then management within National then regional INSTITUTIONS specialized in Weather & CLIMATE APPLICATIONS, at the National ( Algeria ,1973+79) then Regional ( North Africa,1980-90) and finally Continental (Africa, 1991-2003) levels,

****Since August 2003, interested in Consortium/Federation development , capacity building and resource mobilization ,for Integrated Climate Application to the Health and Water Resources Sectors by developing and implementing a Partnering Process between the different specialized communities within the NEPAD Vision…<PARSAC.net > , <AMMANET.org> and <VASAT.org>,

****Member of the GOOS-Africa ( IOC-UNESCO ) and RANET-Global Management Committees and Senior Advisor in Knowledge Management for Rural Communities to the FIRSTVOICE INTERNATIONAL Board

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Name:

CANDYCE CLARK

Title:

Program Director

Institution:

NOAA/OGP/CSI

Location:

Silver Spring, MD

Bio:

Candyce E. Clark is the Program Director for the Research Applications Program. Her professional interests include the application of scientific information in the decision-making process, particularly the application of climate forecasts for societal benefit. She studied Biology, Oceanography, Political Science and Marine Affairs at Mount Holyoke College, University College of North Wales (Menai Bridge), and the University of Rhode Island.

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Name::

MACOL STEWART CERDA

Title:

Founder/President

Institution::

Silmaril, LLC

Location:

Washington, DC

Bio:

Macol Stewart Cerda, founder and President of Silmaril, LLC, is a development consultant and environmental policy advisor with over ten years of international experience. She is currently working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Global Programs to facilitate learning from current experiences managing climate variability, to support planning for adaptation to climate change.

From 2001-2003 Macol was an Investing in Women in Development Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). She advised the agency on more effectively integrating women and girls into its environmental, disaster mitigation, and information technology programs. She remains very active in disaster preparedness and serves a member of the Expert Team to Develop Guidance on Climate Watches, for the Commission for Climatology of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Prior to serving as a Fellow at USAID, Macol was Director of NOAA's Climate Forecasting and Applications Program for Africa. She managed over 100 research, capacity building, and forecast applications activities in Africa and designed the regional infrastructure for the Seasonal Climate Outlook Fora that over 60 countries around the world now rely upon for adapting to climate variability. She also founded NOAA's Climate and Health Program.

Macol's research interests encompass cross time-scale learning, communication of climate information, and the roles of gender, age, and HIV status in adapting to climate variability and change. She earned an M.E.S. at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, an M.A. in international relations at Yale University, and an A.B. in philosophy from Princeton University.

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Name:

MAXX DILLEY

Title:

Disaster and Risk Management

Institution:

International Research Institute for Climate Prediction

Location

Palisades, New York

Bio:

Maxx Dilley is a Geographer with experience in designing and implementing programs in disaster and risk management. Since November, 2001 he has worked at the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction at Columbia University in New York. Prior to that he worked for two years at the World Bank Disaster Management Facility and for seven years at the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance.

Areas of technical specialization include climate and hydro-meteorological hazards, food security, and geographic information applications in disaster management. He has designed and managed disaster mitigation programs in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Maxx earned a Ph.D. and M.S. at the Pennsylvania State University and a B.A. at the University of Delaware, all in Geography.

Current interests include:
· assessment of disaster risk and vulnerability,
· effective communication of climate information to decision-makers and the public,
· scientific and socio-economic factors affecting the sustainability of disaster early warning and response systems, and
· improving the global database for analyzing the socio-economic impacts of disasters.

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Name:

LISA FARROW VAUGHAN

Title:

Program Director, Environment, Science, and Development (ESD)

Institution:

NOAA/OGP/CSI

Location:

Silver Spring, MD

Bio:

Lisa Farrow Vaughan serves as the Program Director for Environment, Science and Development (ESD), an emerging program area that encompassess Applications Research and Science and Technology for Sustainability. In this capacity, she is responsible for the development of programs, methods and pilot projects which integrate socially-defined needs with science and technology for the purpose of fostering sustainable development. Her professional interests include transboundary management of shared resources; climate, equity and ethics; Latin America and the Caribbean; and the development of innovative international institutional arrangements for understanding and adapting to climate variations. She received her M.S. in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins University.

Name:

JONATHAN FINK

Title:

Vice President/Professor

Institution:

Research and Economic Affairs/Geological Sciences, Arizona State University

Location:

Phoenix, AZ

Bio:

Jonathan Fink is Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs and Professor of Geological Sciences at Arizona State University. Prior to becoming Research VP in 1997, he served as Chair of ASU's Geology Department, where he has spent most of his professional career. He received a B.A. from Colby College in 1973, a Ph.D. in Geology from Stanford University in 1979, and is a fellow of the Geological Society of America. A volcano specialist who studies eruptions on earth and other planets, Fink has served on recent NRC panels dealing with the future of the U.S. Geological Survey's Volcano Hazards Program, and research funding at the Smithsonian Institution. In 1992-93 he ran NSF's Geochemistry and Petrology program, and he serves on the American Geophysical Union's Committee on Public Affairs. In his current position, Fink oversees ASU's interdisciplinary research portfolio, which includes a major emphasis on studies of the urban environment.

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Name:

GUIDO FRANCO

Title:

Senior Engineer, Climate Change Research

Institution:

Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program, California Energy Commission

Location:

California

Bio:

Mr. Franco has been working on climate change issues in California since 1996. He developed the 1997 inventory of greenhouse gas emissions for California. Based on the success of this inventory, the California Legislature decided to require the periodic update of this inventory and assigned this responsibility to the California Energy Commission. Under Mr. Franco’s lead, the Commission updated this inventory in 2002. He was put in charge of the development of a climate change research plan for California, which is being implemented through the creation of the California Climate Change Center as a joint research effort between the PIER program and the University of California. He provides technical leadership for this Center for the PIER program.

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Name:

KATHLEEN A. GALVIN

Title:

Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology

Senior Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

Institution:

Colorado State University

Location:

Fort Collins, Colorado

Bio:

Kathleen Galvin is Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, and Senior Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University; Kathleen’s work centers on human ecology, human adaptability, human dimensions of global environmental change, pastoralism, nutrition, and international development. She has conducted research among African pastoralists focusing on the effects of
policy, climate variability and sedentarization on pastoral land use, economy, and diet and nutrition. Her current research explores the effects of climate variability on land use in southern Africa. She is also investigating strategies for balancing pastoral food security, biological conservation, and ecosystem integrity in East Africa with use of integrated modeling and assessment systems. She was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow in Environmental Biology and an Aldo Leopold Fellow. She was a participant at the NAS/NRC workshop on Research Needs for the NSF program on Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. She was also a panel member of the NAS/NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-To-Interannual Climate Variability group which produced the book, Making Climate Forecasts Matter.

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Name:

ALAN F. HAMLET

Title:

Research Scientist

Institution:

Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Oceans (JISAO)/School of Marine Affairs (SMA) Climate Impacts Group (CIG) at the University of Washington

Location:

Seattle, Washington

Bio:

Alan F. Hamlet is a research scientist and water resources engineer with the Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Oceans (JISAO)/School of Marine Affairs (SMA) Climate Impacts Group (CIG) at the University of Washington. His research has focused primarily on integrated climate impacts in the Columbia River basin, climate change assessments, development of streamflow forecasting systems, and associated water management applications.

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Name:

JAMES HANSEN

Title:

Associate Research Scientist

Institution:

International Research Institute for Climate Prediction

Location:

Palisades, New York

Bio:

Hansen’s work at the IRI focuses on fostering, guiding and evaluating the use of seasonal climate prediction to improve agricultural decision making in smallholder farming systems of the tropics. Climate applications have been his career focus since 1996. Prior to coming to the IRI, he worked at the University of Florida with an interdisciplinary team to develop a statewide research and extension program on climate applications. Hansen’s applied research has targeted the Philippines, Colombia, Argentina, India and Mali. His research contributions include applications of agricultural systems methods to optimal use of climate information, farm economic risk and sustainability analysis, and land use under conflicting goals; communication of probabilistic climate information; spatial scaling in agroecosystem modeling; stochastic weather generation; and tropical soil fertility and intercrop ecology. Hansen holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from the University of Florida, and M.S. in Agronomy and Soil Science from the University of Hawaii. He is co-Editor-In-Chief of Agricultural Systems.

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Name:

HOLLY HARTMANN

Title:

Research Hydrologist

Institution:

Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS), University of Arizona

Location:

Phoenix, Arizona

Bio:

Dr. Holly C. Hartmann has worked with the Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS) project, funded by NOAA's OGP, since 1998. Within CLIMAS, stakeholder and social science input prompted her to shift her research emphasis from hydrologic modeling improvements to forecast assessment and communication. Before joining the University of Arizona, she was a NOAA research hydrologist, focused on Great Lakes water supply forecasting and water resource management issues.

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Name:

HARVEY HILL

Title:

Manager, Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Program

Institution:

UCAR-JOSS at NOAA/OGP/CSI

Location:

Silver Spring, MD

Bio:

Harvey Hill is responsible for the management of the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Program. His work has included employment as an extension officer, foreign aid researcher and project manager as well teaching undergraduate level economics classes. Harvey's professional interests include climate and development issues from an economics perspective. He has studied and worked for varying periods of time in Australia, Brazil, Canada, the United States, and Zambia. He received his undergraduate degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Saskatchewan in 1984. His Masters and Doctorate degrees in Agricultural Economics were obtained at Texas A&M University in 1995 and 2000, respectively.

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Name:

WILLIAM HOOKE

Title:

Senior Policy Fellow and the Director of the Atmospheric Policy Program

Institution:

American Meteorological Society

Location:

Washington, DC

Bio:

From 1967 to 2000, Dr. Hooke worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and antecedent agencies. After six years of research in fundamental geophysical fluid dynamics and its application to the ionosphere, the boundary layer, air quality, aviation, and wind engineering, he moved into a series of management positions of increasing scope and responsibility. From 1973 to 1980, he was Chief of the Wave Propagation Laboratory Atmospheric Studies Branch. From 1980 to 1983 he rotated through a series of management development assignments. From 1984 to 1987 he directed NOAA's Environmental Sciences Group (now the Forecast Systems Lab), responsible for much of the systems R&D for the NWS Modernization, as well as a range of other weather and climate research activities.

From 1987 to 1993 he served as the Deputy Chief Scientist and Acting Chief Scientist of NOAA, setting policy and direction for $300M/year of NOAA R&D in oceanography, atmospheric science, hydrology, climate, marine biology, and associated technologies.

Between 1993 and 2000, he held two national responsibilities: Director of the U.S. Weather Research Program Office, and Chair of the interagency Subcommittee for Natural Disaster Reduction of the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Environment and Natural Resources.

Dr. Hooke was an adjoint faculty member at the University of Colorado from 1969 to 1987, and served as a fellow of two NOAA Joint Institutes (CIRES, 1971-1977; CIRA 1987-2000). The author of over fifty refereed publications, and co-author of one book, Dr. Hooke holds a B.S. (Physics Honors) from Swarthmore College (1964), and S.M. (1966) and Ph.D (1967) degrees from the University of Chicago.

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Name:

KATHARINE JACOBS

Title:

Professor

Institution:

Water Resources Research Center of the University of Arizona

Location:

Arizona

Bio:

Ms. Katharine L. Jacobs is currently a faculty member at the Water Resources Research Center of the University of Arizona. She is working on climate and water management issues, rural water resources issues and developing a drought plan for the state. She was the Director of the Tucson Active Management Area of the ADWR from 1988 through 2001. In 2001-2002 she worked on a special project at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration focused on the interface between scientific information, policy and decision-making. Ms. Jacobs earned her M.LA. in environmental planning from the University of California, Berkeley. Her expertise is in groundwater management and developing practical, appropriate solutions to difficult public policy issues. She served on the Synthesis Team for the U.S. National Assessment of the Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, and most recently, on the NRC panel reviewing the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan.

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Name:

JAMES JONES

Title:

Professor

Institution:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Florida

Location:

Florida

Bio:

I have been with the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Florida for over 25 years. My main research has focused on development of weather-sensitive crop growth and yield models and their applications in climate change, climate forecast, and crop management studies. I also helped design and develop the DSSAT, which is a package that includes crop and soil models as well as tools for their application. I am currently a PI in the Southeastern Climate Consortium, a Center that includes researchers from five other universities in three states.

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Name:

MICK KELLY

Title:

Deputy Director of Graduate Studies

Institution:

University of East Anglia

Location:

East Anglia, UK

Bio:

Dr Mick Kelly is a Reader with the Climatic Research Unit and the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He is Deputy Director of Graduate Studies for the University of East Anglia and Director of the Climate Change MSc programme in the School of Environmental Sciences.

After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Meteorology at Reading University, Mick Kelly undertook postgraduate research on climatic change at the newly-formed Climatic Research Unit. Receiving a doctorate in 1976, he has pursued an interdisciplinary research path, focusing on the causes of climatic change, combining both empirical and modeling approaches, and the societal relevance of climate variability, specifically vulnerability to climate change. He is currently undertaking a long-term training, information provision and research programme directed towards strengthening the capacity of developing nations to respond to climate change. This work is currently focused on the nations of Indochina.

Concerned that all sectors of society have access to scientific information, Mick Kelly has appeared frequently on radio and television and has written and presented six programmes for BBC Radio, most recently an account of fieldwork in Vietnam. He has also acted as scientific consultant on a number of TV documentaries, including "Can Polar Bears Tread Water" which won a prestigious Prix Italia award.

Mick Kelly is co-founder and editor of Tiempo , a bulletin on global warming and the Third World, and the related Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary . He is, with John Gribbin, author of a popular account of the threat posed by global warming, "Winds of Change" (Headway, 1989).

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Name:

DOUG KENNEY

Title:

Research Associate

Institution:

Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado

Location:

Boulder, Colorado

Bio:

Doug Kenney is a Research Associate at the Natural Resources Law Center, located within the University of Colorado School of Law (Boulder). In that capacity, he designs and implements a comprehensive research agenda examining a variety of public policy issues associated with natural resources, with a particular emphasis on water. He has written extensively on several water-related issues, including river basin and watershed-level planning, the design of institutional arrangements, and alternative strategies for solving complex resource issues. He has served in a variety of advisory positions for state and national governments, including work with the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission, and more recently, through a presentation in Vietnam to Asian nations considering new water allocation arrangements. Before beginning his current position with the Natural Resources Law Center, he served as a principal technical consultant to the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint and Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT/ACF) Comprehensive Study, assisting Alabama, Florida, and Georgia in the development of two interstate water allocation compacts. His work on climate issues has been conducted through the Western Water Assessment, a NOAA RISA program focused primarily on water management. As part of that project, he recently hosted a major 3-day conference entitled: "Water, Climate and Uncertainty: Implications for Western Water Law, Policy and Management." Dr. Kenney has a B.A. in biology from the University of Colorado, a M.S. in Natural Resources Policy and Administration from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Renewable Natural Resource Studies from the University of Arizona.

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Name:

PAUL KIRSHEN

Title:

Research Professor

Institution:

Tufts University

Location:

Boston, MA

Bio:

Paul Kirshen, Research Professor, Tufts University, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Director of Tufts Water, Sustainability, Health, and Ecological Diversity (WaterSHED) Center. Co-Chair of the new Tufts interdisciplinary PhD Program in Water: Systems, Science and Society. Conducting research in developed and developing countries on climate change impacts and adaptation, integrated water resources and watershed planning, management, and policy, water resources operations, decision support systems, and hydrology. Teaching of integrated water resources and watershed assessment and management. PhD and MS in CEE from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ScB in Engineering from Brown University.

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Name:

KABINEH KONNEH

Title:

Manager, Environment, Science, and Development Program-Africa

Institution:

UCAR-JOSS at NOAA/OGP/CSI

Location:

Silver Spring, MD

Bio:

Kabineh Konneh manages Africa in the Environment, Science and Development (ESD) Program. His general interest is the application of Science and Technology for Sustainable Development and for societal benefit. Specifically the transition of innovative agricultural and climate science research knowledge into operational settings for improved societal welfare and ecosystems management. He received a B.S. in General Agriculture at the University of Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone, West Africa and an M.Sc. in Agricultural Development and Extension from the University of Reading, in the United Kingdom. He has worked as agriculture and rural development officer in a number of West African countries and coordinated national programs involved in resource management in the agriculture and rural development sectors in developing countries. He is currently responsible for fostering and promoting the use and application of climate information through support for research, capacity building of both regional institutions and human resource in the African region.

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Name:

NEIL LEARY

Title:

Science Director

Institution:

Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC)

Location:

St. Paul, MN

Bio:

Neil Leary is the Science Director of a research and capacity building project titled Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC). The project, which is jointly administered by START, the Third World Academy of Sciences, and the United Nations Environment Programme, supports nearly 300 scientists and students in 46 developing countries in their investigations of climate change vulnerabilities and adaptations. Neil is the author/co-author of 17 papers and book chapters on climate change. From 1998 to 2001 Neil coordinated the assessment of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and is co-editor of the IPCC report Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability . Previous positions include senior economist in the Office of Policy of the US Environmental Protection Agency and Assistant Professor in the economics department at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he also served for a year as Acting Director of the Environmental Studies Program. Neil obtained a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA in 1988 and a B.A. degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN in 1980.

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Name:

PATRICK LUGANDA

Title:

Senior Features Writer/Head Agricultural Reporting and National Coordinator

Institution:

The New Vision Newspaper and The Climate Communications Project

Location:

Kampala, Uganda

Bio:

My name is Patrick Nkono Luganda. I am 46 years old. I am a senior Features Writer with the New Vision Newspaper and head of agricultural reporting. I am the 1998/1999 award winner of the A.H. Boerma award for global excellence in Agricultural Reporting awarded by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization in Rome. The award is given once every two years to the best journalist or media organization deemed by the UN body to have given the best contribution to agricultural development in the world over a two-year period.

I am also the Chairman of the Network of Climate Journalists in the Greater Horn of Africa. I have presented several papers on the Climate, agriculture and rural development in various forums globally.

I am also the National Coordinator of the Climate Communications Project that aims at
Improving Farming Systems in Uganda through Climate Communications working in local languages. The project is funded by the NOAA/OGP with Dr. Jennifer Phillips and Prof. Benjamin Orlove as the Principal Investigators and Supervisors.

I am a member of the World Meteorological Organization End Users Team of Experts. I work extensively with the Uganda National Meteorological Services and the Drought Monitoring Centre, Nairobi. I am helping to set up Media Networks in Asia and Southern Africa. I work extensively with the National Agricultural Research Organization and The National Agricultural Advisory Services and the Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries. Among other things I train journalists on climate, agricultural and development journalism at various forums.

In addition I am the Project Director of Communications for Development (CODEV). This is an NGO which aims to create development opportunities through communicating development oriented information. We believe that working through radio programmes and other news media development especially of the rural majority can be enhanced at minimal costs.

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Name:

JAMES R. MAHONEY, Ph.D

Title:

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
and NOAA Deputy Administrator

Institution:

NOAA

Location:

Washington, DC

Bio:

James R. Mahoney was born and raised in Syracuse, N.Y. He received a B.S. degree in Physics from LeMoyne College in his home town. His career since college has involved more than 40 years of continuous focus on environmental management and the earth sciences, with an emphasis on the atmospheric, climate, hydrological and oceanographic areas. He has undertaken diverse responsibilities in academic, corporate, national government and international settings.

Mahoney received a Ph.D. degree in meteorology from MIT, and then joined the Faculty of Public Health at Harvard University, in its Department of Environmental Health Sciences. This early-career focus on public health and the environment has positively influenced all of his subsequent professional work.

Drawing upon his Harvard experience, Mahoney co-founded the environmental management company Environmental Research & Technology, Inc. in 1968. ERT grew to become the nation's largest environmental firm by the end of the 1970s, operating throughout the United States and several other nations. In that period, ERT became the largest employer of meteorologists and related technical specialists in the United States, except for the federal government itself. In 1984, Mahoney moved to the position of director of the Environmental Industries Center at the Bechtel Group, Inc., in San Francisco. In this position he supervised Bechtel's domestic and international environmental programs.

Mahoney entered full-time public service in 1988 as director of the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, working in the Executive Office of the President. NAPAP was a unique ten-year interagency program created by the Energy Security Act of 1979, and charged with recommending sound approaches to controlling acid rain effects, while providing for continued energy and economic security for the nation. His service as NAPAP director included the completion of the ten-year program involving the work of more than 2,000 technical and economic specialists; the publication of a major, internationally reviewed acid rain science and technology compendium; and extensive issue analyses supporting the development of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. Mahoney was awarded the Commerce Department Gold Medal in recognition of exceptional performance as director of NAPAP.

Mahoney was senior vice president of the IT Group, Inc., an international environmental management firm, from 1991 to 1999. Among other responsibilities, he served as president of IT's Consulting and Ventures Group, which conducted projects in nearly every state and at several international locations. During 2000 and 2001, Mahoney worked as an environmental advisor on several domestic and international matters.

Mahoney has worked in more than 50 other nations in several different roles: negotiating and overseeing international joint venture technical companies, representing the U.S. government in specialist exchanges, advising government agencies (particularly in developing nations) on sustainable industry, fishery and agricultural practices, and advising several United Nations and other international agencies.

Mahoney is a Fellow and former president of the 12,000-member American Meteorological Society, which serves the atmospheric, oceanographic and hydrological fields. As a result of a strategic review initiated during his term as president, AMS committed to a long-term program of support for science education at all levels, encouragement of technical careers for minority students, and the application of sound science to complex public issues including disaster preparedness, environmental protection and global climate change, among others.

Mahoney has served on several committees of the National Academy of Sciences dealing with weather and climate, environmental protection and science education. In 1999, he completed a term as co-chairman of the Academy's Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate.

On April 2, 2002, after confirmation by the United States Senate, Mahoney assumed the position of Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere/Deputy Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Referencing his new position at his swearing-in ceremony, Mahoney said, "NOAA has the benefit of a large number of highly skilled scientific, technical and administrative personnel, and I will do all I can to help enhance their careers and further improve NOAA's service to the nation and the world."

Mahoney has six adult children and eleven grandchildren. He and his wife Taya Mahoney also have five-year-old twin daughters.

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Name:

MELCHIOR MATAKI

Title:

Program Manager

Institution:

Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (PACE-SD), University of the South Pacific (USP )

Location:

Fiji

Bio:

I have worked in various teaching positions within USP and before joining PACE-SD, I was with USP Department of Chemistry. I have post graduate qualifications (MSc.) in environmental and analytical chemistry .

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Name:

HOLGER MEINKE

Title:

Dr.

Institution:

Department of Primary Industries, Queensland

Location:

Australia

Bio:

My research is at the interface between agricultural systems sciences and climate sciences. I lead several major research projects across Australia and throughout Asia (eg. ‘Applying Climate Information to Enhance the Resilience of Farming System Exposed to Climatic Risk in South and Southeast Asia’). My research objectives are to develop and deliver improved risk management tools for agriculture. The emphasis of my research is on the development and delivery of quantitative agricultural systems analysis and climate science. I have published over 50 papers on these issues. Within the Queensland Government and lead several groups of climate and agricultural scientists.

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Name:

AURELIA MICKO

Title:

Assistant Manager, Climate Information Access Program

Institution:

UCAR-JOSS at NOAA/OGP/CSI

Location:

Silver Spring, MD

Bio:

Aurelia Micko works on the Climate Information Access Program (CIP). Her interests include impacts of climate variability and change on natural resources and socioeconomic systems and international climate change policy. She has an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry/Biophysics from Northwestern University. She received her Masters in Environmental Policy from Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

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Name:

EDWARD MILES

Title:

Professor

Institution:

University of Washington, Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean

Location:

Seattle, Washington

Bio:

Edward L. Miles has served as chairman of the Ocean Policy Committee, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (1974-79); member of the Executive Board, Law of the Sea Institute, 1972-81 and 1985-89 and President 1989-93; Chairman of the Legal and Institutional Task Group on the Implications of Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste into the Seabed and Advisor to the Executive Committee, Seabed Working Group, Nuclear Energy Agency, OCED, 1981-1987; Chairman of the Advisory Committee on International Programs of the National Science Foundation, 1990-92; member of the Advisory Committee for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation, 1992-1994; and trustee of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment in Washington, D.C., 1999-present. On April 29, 2003 he was elected to membership in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

He has also served as consultant to the United Nations, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of Unesco, Dept. of Fisheries of FAO, and the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency. In April 1993 he served as the UN-designated expert on GESAMP, the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection and in 1994 he was appointed Lead Author for Marine Policy in WG II-B (Oceans and Large Lakes) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 1995, Re-assessment of the Global Climate Change Problem. He is the author of many studies on international organizations, international science and technology policy, and marine policy and ocean management. His recent books are Global Ocean Politics: The Decision Process at UNCLOS III, 1973-1982, (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1998), and Edward L. Miles, et al. Environmental Regime Effectiveness: Confronting Theory with Evidence, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002).

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Name:

BARBARA MOREHOUSE

Title:

Deputy Director

Institution:

Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (ISPE)

Location:

Arizona

Bio:

Barbara Morehouse is Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (ISPE) and is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Regional Development at the University of Arizona. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography and specializes in research on human-environment interactions, with an emphasis on institutional and policy analysis at the science-policy interface. She also has a strong interest in development, introduction, and use of decision support tools designed to facilitate adaptation to environmental variability and change. She is the principal investigator on an EPA project to build an integrated fire-climate-society model, and is actively involved in efforts to introduce climate information into water-climate dialogues underway in the Upper San Pedro River Basin, which crosses the US-Mexico border. She managed the NOAA-OGP funded Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS) project for five years prior to accepting the deputy director position at ISPE, and continues as a co-investigator and Executive Committee member on the project.

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Name:

SAMUEL MUCHEMI

Title:

Media Meteorologist

Institution:

Kenya Meteorological Department

Location:

Nairobi, Kenya

Bio:

Media Meteorologist, Msc. Ecole Nationale de la Meteo, Toulouse, France; BSc University of Nairobi; Coordinator, RANET-Kenya Project, Chairman, Kenya Network of Journalist and Meteorologist, Member of WMO Expert Team on Media Issues; Member, International Association of Broadcast Meteorologists, Secretary, Kenya Meteorlogical Society.

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Name:

REIDNER MUMBI

Title:

RANET Zambia Director

Institution:

RANET

Location:

Zambia

Bio:

I am a retired meteorologist, worked for 30 years (1970-1999) as a synoptic meteorologist as well as a public weather forecaster for TV. I represented Zambia on the Global Telecommunication System subcommittee of the Commission for Basic Systems (1985-1999) and the Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology (1987-1999). I retired from the service on 7th September 1999. I started working on the RANET Zambia Project in the year 2000.

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Name:

JUNIPER NEILL

Title:

Program Manager-Acting, Climate Variability and Human Health Joint Announcement

Institution:

NOAA/OGP/CSI

Location:

Silver Spring, MD

Bio:

Juniper Neill is a Program Officer at CSI and works primarily on the RISA and Climate Variability and Health program. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in International Relations and Environmental Policy from Mills College and Columbia University, respectively. As a water quality consultant in the western United States from '91-97, she interfaced between industry and regulatory agencies on water quality compliance. From '97-'99 she served as an environment volunteer with the US Peace Corps in Ukraine. Her primary interests are community development and natural resource management. She recently completed a detail with the National Park Service in Alaska as Special Assistant on Climate Change.

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Name:

CLAUDIA NIERENBERG

Title:

Acting Director, Climate and Societal Interactions Division

Institution:

NOAA/OGP/CSI

Location:

Silver Spring, MD

Bio:

Claudia Nierenberg is the Acting Director of the Climate and Societal Interactions Division. She has spent the last ten years in global change research , focusing on the development of research agendas and institutions oriented toward the use of information for adaptation to climate variability. She holds a Bachelors degree in English Literature from the University of Virginia and a Masters degree in International Political Economy from Columbia University.

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Name:

LABAN OGALLO

Title:

Coordinator

Institution:

DMC-N

Location:

Nairobi, Kenya

Bio:

- PHD Meteorology
- Professor of Meteorology, Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi
- Coordinator of regional climate monitoring and prediction centre for 10 GHA countries
- Active participants in the current and all past IPCC assessments
- Keen interest on regional climate change science, impacts and adaptation
- Author for several articles on both regional climate change issues

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Name:

ANTHONY G. PATT

Title:

Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography

Institution:

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Location:

Potsdam, Germany

Bio:

Dr. Anthony Patt is Assistant Professor of Geography at Boston University, currently funded by NOAA-OGP to pursue research as a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Dr. Patt’s research focuses on individual and organizational decision-making under conditions of uncertainty, and the role of scientific information in assisting that decision-making. His research has taken place largely within two research projects, each funded in part by NOAA-OGP. First, within the Global Environmental Assessment Project, Dr. Patt has examined the ways in which environmental assessments can best treat issues of uncertainty to promote particular kinds of decision-making; case studies include the use of integrated assessment models to assess transboundary air pollution, the assessment of extreme events of climate change, and the use of language to represent likelihood estimates. Second, with a research project examining the use of seasonal climate forecasts by subsistence farmers in Zimbabwe, Dr. Patt has examined the institutional design of information transfer as an essential ingredient in enhancing people’s understanding, trust, and ultimately use of the information.

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Name:

JENNIFER G. PHILLIPS

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

Bard Center for Environmental Policy

Location:

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Bio:

Jennifer Phillips received her Ph.D. in Soil, Crop and Atmospheric Science from Cornell in 1994. She did post-doctoral studies at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies on the Columbia University campus on climate change impacts on agricultural production, then moved into the research area of the use of climate predictions in farm management, focusing on Southern and East Africa. In 1999, she took a post at the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, also under the umbrella of the Columbia Earth Institute, where her work focused on improving communication of seasonal forecasts to minimize risk in decision making. She has managed two grants from NOAA’s Office of Global Programs for research in Africa. He current project, with Co-PI Ben Orlove of UC Davis, looks at improving forecast communications through rural radio in local languages in Uganda. She hopes to transition her research to the Northeastern US so she can be near her current position teaching in the Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College. In her spare time, Jennifer raises sheep and chickens on a small farm in the Hudson Valley.

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Name:

GUILLERMO PODESTA

Title:

Research Associate Professor

Institution:

University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

Location:

Miami, Florida

Bio:

Guillermo Podestá is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. Because of his earlier training in Agronomy, Dr. Podestá has become involved in studies of ENSO-related climate variability and agriculture. He is part of various projects exploring end-to-end applications of climate forecasts to improve decision-making in the agricultural sectors of Argentina, Uruguay and the southeastern United States. These projects are supported by grants from NOAA's Office of Global Programs, the US National Science Foundation (Methods and Models for Integrated Assessment, Biocomplexity in the Environment), and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). Dr. Podesta's interests also include satellite remote sensing of ocean dynamics using sea surface temperature, ocean color fields and sea surface height fields; applications of satellite and in situ observations to the understanding of oceanic variability and biological responses; fishery oceanography; and fishery ecology.

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Name:

Title:

Institution:

Location:

Bio:

Name:

PATRICIA RAMIREZ

Title:

Directora de Proyectos en Meteorolog ía y Clima

Institution:

Comité Regional de Recursos Hidráulicos del Itsmo Centroamericano(CRRH/SICA)

Location:

San Jose, Costa Rica

Bio:

Born in San Jos,e Costa Rica, graduated in Meterology at Universidad de Costa Rica in 1976, and obtained a MSc. Degree in Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at the International Center for Training and Research in Tropical Agriculture (CATIE) in Turrialba, Costa Rica in 1986.

For many years worked at the National Weather Service in Costa Rica, wher,e through her career, performed the responsibilities of Head of Agricultural Meteorology Unit, Head of the Departament of Climatology, Head of the Public Information Department , Deputy Director and Director General.

In the last three years she have worked for the Comite Regional de Recursos Hidraulicos del Itsmo Centroamericano (CRRH), the agency of the Central American Integration System (SICA) responsible for climate, water and integrated basin management. In this period her main activity has been the establisment of a process for the strengthening of the Regional capacity to produce, disseminate and apply climate information for decision making, as well as the identification of mechanisms to increase the capacity of NMHSs in the Region for the sustainability of its activities.

Relevant achivements of this activity has been the consolidation of a regional working group for the regular production of seasonal climate outlooks and its dissemination to ample groups of potential users in governmental and private sector in the seven countries of the Region. The group, integrated by professionals from National Meteorological Services, Universities, Research Centers and private companies, working on principles of mutual support and open exchange of knowledge and information monitors and discusses in a “Virtual Forum” all global and regional information available as well as the development of weather events in the Region, discussions that provide the basis for the production of seasonal climate outlooks and intra-seasonal updates that are presented and discussed with stake-holders in the seven countries.

In 2002, working with the SICA organizations for agriculture, health and food security, on the base of Regional Seasonal Climate Outlooks, triggered the alert for food insecurity in some parts of Central America, that led , for the first time in the Region, to the preparation of a Regional Plan for Drought , coordinated and articulated for the seven countries.

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Name:

CYNTHIA ROSENZWEIG

Title:

Research Scientist

Institution:

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Location:

New York, New York

Bio:

Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Research Scientist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where she is the leader of the Climate Impacts Group. She is an Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia University Earth Institute and an Adjunct Professor at Barnard College. A Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy, Dr. Rosenzweig’s research focuses on climate variability and change in relation to agriculture, at regional, national, and global scales. She has organized and led interdisciplinary national and international studies in this field, and published over 100 scientific articles and reports. She has developed methods for using remote sensing to identify agricultural areas in the U.S. Corn Belt sensitive to the El Niño Southern Oscillation phenomenon, and analyzed how climate affects crop production, plant diseases and pests, and soils. Dr. Rosenzweig is a recipient of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Name:

GEOFFREY ROWLAND

Title:

Technical Specialist, Climate Information Access Program

Institution:

RGII at NOAA/OGP/CSI

Location:

Silver Spring, MD

Bio:

Geoffrey Rowland works for the Climate Information Access Program (CIP). His interests include geographic information systems and programming in PHP and MySQL. He studied Computer Science at Frostburg State University and the University of Northumbira at Newcastle.

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Name:

MICHAEL SCOTT

Title:

Staff Scientist

Institution:

Battelle Pacific Northwest Division

Location:

Richland, WA

Bio:

EDUCATION:

B.A. Economics, Washington State University 1970
M.A. Economics, University of Washington 1971
Ph.D. Economics, University of Washington 1975

EXPERIENCE:

Dr. Scott is a Staff Scientist with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington with a Ph.D. in economics and over 25 years of experience in microeconomic and macroeconomic modeling. His professional specialties are in natural resources economics (especially, global change issues) and regional economics.

Over the last 15 years, Dr. Scott has specialized in studying the effects of global environmental change on natural resources and the economy, particularly impacts on human systems and uncertainty. He has been convening lead author for human settlements impacts chapters for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II 2nd Assessment Report (Chapter 12) in 1996 and 3rd Assessment Report (Chapter 7) in 2001, and was a contributing author to the IPCC Special Report The Regional Impacts of Climate Change in 1998. His current research is on the impacts of climate change and variability, emissions trading, and uncertainty in integrated assessment models. He recently contributed to a new book on the public policy of climate change for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change (http://www.pewclimate.org). His current research is on the impacts of climate change on the value to irrigated agriculture of forecasting climate variability and change.

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Name:

EILEEN SHEA

Title:

Climate Project Coordinator

Institution:

East-West Center

Location:

Honolulu, HI

Bio:

Eileen Shea currently serves as Climate Projects Coordinator at the East-West Center in Honolulu, HI with responsibility for development and implementation of a climate assessment program for the Pacific Islands. In this capacity she is responsible for the development and implementation of programs for research, dialogue and education in the area of climate variability and change. Ms. Shea continues the work on climate vulnerability assessment and public policy begun when leading the Pacific Islands regional contribution to the first National Assessment of the Consequences of Climate for the United States. Other current projects include: a review of the first ten years of operation of the Pacific ENSO Applications Center; a new Pacific Islands Regional Integrated Science and Assessment (Pacific RISA) program; a proposed Pacific Islands Training Institute on Climate and Extreme Events; and contributions to Pacific Island climate forecasting, applications and education activities being developed in the context of the US-New Zealand and US-Australia climate change science bilaterals.

Ms. Shea works closely with Pacific Island National Meteorological Services and the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to establish a Pacific Island Climate Information System. The concept of a Pacific Island Climate Information System first emerged in a July 1999 regional meeting co-organized by Ms. Shea and SPREP. The overarching goal of a Pacific Island Climate Information System is to organize and coordinate the climate-related work of numerous research, prediction, assessment and education institutions/programs throughout the Pacific region in the context of providing useful and usable climate information to support practical decision-making.

Previous positions include: Executive Director of the Center for the Application of Research on the Environment (Institute of Global Environment and Society, Inc.); Environment and Natural Resources Staff Director for the Board on Sustainable Development of the National Research Council at which time she served as Study Director for the White House Conference on Environment and Natural Resources. During over eighteen years of Federal Government Service, Ms. Shea served as Deputy Director of the Office of Global Programs, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Senior Analyst for Research Programs in the NOAA Office of Budget and Finance; and NOAA Congressional Affairs Specialist with responsibilities for NOAA programs in coastal zone management, ocean minerals and ocean energy.

Prior to relocating permanently to Hawaii in1998, Ms. Shea was a resident of the Washington, DC area. She received her Bachelor of Arts and Sciences (BAAS) from the University of Delaware in 1975 and pursued graduate work in environmental law and marine resource management at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science of the College of William and Mary from 1975-1979.

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Name:

CAITLIN SIMPSON

Title:

Program Director, Health and Human Dimensions Research

Institution:

NOAA/OGP/CSI

Location:

Silver Spring

Bio:

Caitlin F. Simpson is the Program Director of Health and Human Dimensions Research at the Office of Global Programs of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). She is also currently a co-chairperson of the Human Contributions and Responses working group of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program's strategic planning process. Her main areas of interest are the study of how society adjusts to climate from year to year, the incorporation of uncertain scientific information into decision-making, and the complex social and economic context in which decisions are made. She received an M.A. in Economics from George Washington University and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia.

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Name:

SHIV SOMESHWAR

Title:

Research Scientist

Institution:

International Research Institute for Climate Prediction

Location:

Palisades, NY

Bio:

Shiv Someshwar is leading a number of multi-country research initiatives in South and South East Asia on reducing livelihood vulnerability and increasing systems resilience to climate variability. At IRI he is Director, Institutions and Policy Systems research core, and Leader, Asia Regional Program. Dr. Someshwar is helping launch the MA in Climate and Society program at Columbia University (slated for Fall 2004). Prior to IRI, he was at the Rockefeller Foundation, Harvard University and the World Bank.

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Name:

AMY SNOVER

Title:

Research Scientist

Institution:

Climate Impacts Group, Center for Science in the Earth System, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington

Location:

Seattle, Washington

Bio:

Amy Snover has worked with the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington since 1998. Her background includes training in Analytical/Environmental Chemistry (Ph.D., University of Washington) with dissertation research on the stable isotopic biogeochemistry of atmospheric methane. Dr. Snover performs integrated assessment of the impacts of both natural climate variability and future human-caused climate change on the natural and human systems of the Pacific Northwest. She focuses on developing both qualitative and quantitative methods of vertical and horizontal regional climate impacts assessment and on translating the results of those assessments for managers and decision makers. Her published work includes papers on the impacts of climate variability and change on the Pacific Northwest as a whole and on water resources in particular. Dr. Snover has developed and taught several graduate-level interdisciplinary (science/policy) courses at the University of Washington, including “The Role of Science in Environmental Decisions”, “Climate Impacts on the Pacific Northwest: Using Climate Information in Natural Resource Management,” and “Decision Making in the Face of Uncertainty: Practitioner Views on Environmental Resource Management Challenges.”

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Name:

CYNTHIA SORRENSEN

Title:

Assistant Social Research Scientist

Institution:

Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona

Location:

Phoenix, Arizona

Bio:

Cynthia Sorrensen is an Assistant Social Research Scientist in the Department of Geography and Regional Development at the University of Arizona. She is the coordinator of the Southwest and Mexican Border Region Human Environment Research Observatory, which focuses on vulnerability to climate change in the Arizona Sonora border region, and is a Co-PI on NOAA funded research in the Brazilian Amazon related to rural copping strategies to drought and fire hazard. Her work builds on previous projects looking at human-environment interactions as related to biomass burning and fire hazard, rural change, and the environmental impacts of urban-rural linkages

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Name:

KELLY SPONBERG

Title:

Manager, Climate Information Access Program

Institution:

UCAR-JOSS at NOAA/OGP/CSI

Location:

Silver Spring, MD

Bio:

Kelly Sponberg manages the Climate Information Access Program (CIP). He is interested in disaster reporting and assessments, human perception and use of technology, information inequality, and humanitarian assistance. Primary program responsibilities include RANET Africa, Asia, and Pacific. He received his B.A. in Geoscience from Princeton University and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Geography at Rutgers.

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Name:

PABLO SUAREZ

Title:

Ph.D. Candidate

Institution:

Boston University – Department of Geography

Location:

Boston, MA

Bio:

After working for a few years in Argentina as a water engineer designing infrastructure for flood prevention, Pablo came to the US to pursue a masters in planning. He was a consultant for UNEP's Division of Early Warning and Assessment, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the International Society for Environmental Protection, as well as a research affiliate at MIT's Center for Environmental Initiatives. As a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at Boston University he is focusing on the use of climatic information for decision making in the realm of vulnerability reduction. He is currently participating in a NOAA-funded research project entitled “Testing the Ability of Subsistence Farmers to Use Seasonal Climate Forecasts: A Participatory Approach in Zimbabwe.”

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Name:

WASSILA THIAW

Title:

Coordinator, African Desk

Institution:

Climate Prediction Center

Location:

Washington, DC

Bio:

Wassila M. Thiaw - Coordinator, African Desk of the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) since 1994. Previously: Meteorologist at the Direction de la Meteorologie Nationale du Senegal (1988-94); US National Research Council Research Associate at NOAA (1991-93); European Space Agency Fellow (1987-88). BS in Meteorology from the University of Dakar (1983); Ph. D, Meteorology from Blaise Pascal University and Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique in Paris, France (1988). Affiliations: Member of the American Meteorological Society; Member of the National Geographical Society. Current activities include: Research on the mechanisms of climate variability and predictions for Africa; Climate monitoring for Africa; Training visiting scientists from African meteorological services; Member of the AMS STAC Committee for southern hemisphere meteorology and oceanography; Past activities include: Chairman of the West African Monsoon Variability and Predictability (WAMAP) Workshop (1999); Member of the WMO/CLIPS mission team (1995). Earlier work: satellite rainfall estimation and cloud climatology over Africa and over the U.S. Publications: over 10 referred journal articles and over 10 conference papers and technical reports.

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Name:

ADRIAN TROTMAN

Title:

Agrometeorologist

Institution:

Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology

Location:

Bridgetown, Barbados

Bio:

Agrometeorologist - responsible for the agricultural meteorology programme at CIMH. This includes training of meteorological and agricultural personnel from the member territories of the Caribbean Meteorological Organization, as well as research and development activities in those territories.

General Interest – Plant water relations, Agroclimatic Zoning

Current work – Water Relations of Capsicum chinense (var. West Indies Red). Climate variability and trends in the Caribbean

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Name:

JULI TRTANJ

Title:

Manager, Climate Variability and Health Program

Institution:

UCAR-JOSS at NOAA/OGP/CSI

Location:

Silver Spring, MD

Bio:

Juli Trtanj manages the Climate Variability and Health Program. She has a longstanding interest in issues of environmental conservation and development and the science/policy interface, and is specifically addressing the use of earth science information for public health policy and decision-makers. She has worked on Capitol Hill and has an interest in common resource management, international relations, ocean and coastal issues, and the policy sciences. She earned her Masters in Environmental Management from Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and her Bachelors in Environmental Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Name:

CORINNE VALDIVIA

Title:

Associate Professor

Institution:

Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri Columbia

Location:

Columbia, Missouri

Bio:

Corinne Valdivia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri Columbia. She is also Program Director for International Agriculture at the College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Minor in International Development at the Graduate School. Corinne's research and outreach activities center on understanding rural household and individual strategies that promote food security, economic growth, welfare and resilience. Her training includes agricultural economics, political economics and rural sociology. In collaboration with people from local and international organizations she develops methods to understand the coping and adapting capacities of rural people in the Andes of Latin America, East Africa and Missouri, and the factors that contribute or constraint adoption of new knowledge. She has collaborated and worked for many years to integrate social sciences as a dimension in research on technologies in national and international agricultural research systems. Her research includes livelihood strategies, household production systems and the economics involving risk, portfolio diversification strategies in relation to coping and adapting to change, and intrahousehold/gender analysis of resource management and control. Valdivia and her colleagues, in collaboration with communities in the Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia, studied the effect on climate variability on their coping capacity, and what are the opportunities and constraints of new technologies to contribute to adaptation in the Andes, with funding from the Human Dimensions of Global Change Program of NOAA.

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Name:

MILTON WAISWA

Title:

Coordinator: RANET Uganda

Institution:

Department of Meteorology, Ministry of Water, Lands and Environment

Location:

Kampala, Uganda

Bio:

Milton Waiswa is a meteorologist with special interests in producing climate advisories for users in the agriculture sector. Through his work at the Uganda Department of Meteorology and with RANET/Uganda, Mr. Waiswa is extensively involved in promoting the use of new information technologies for dissemination of climate information to rural communities. He is also engaged in conducting climate research on farmer’s knowledge of climate and linking it with scientific climate knowledge.

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Name:

SUE WALKER

Title:

Professor of Agrometeorology

Institution:

Dept. Soil, Crop and Climate Sciences, University of the Free State

Location:

Bloemfontein, South Africa

Bio:

As I love the outdoors, especially hiking and birding, and was fascinated by the weather, I started my career by studying B.Sc. Agriculture with a major in Agrometeorology and Crop Science. After working in Pretoria for a few years, I then completed a PhD at the University of California, Davis in Plant Physiology in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources on the effect of water stress on sorghum leaf growth. I returned to the Institute for Soil, Climate and Water, Pretoria to work on crop water relations studies under irrigation, but slowly moved into farming systems type projects in a developing agricultural situation. I was then active in community based participatory action research on improving household food security and promoting efficient use of water. At present, I am the professor of Agrometeorology in the Department of Soil, Crop and Climate Sciences at the University of the Free State. I have students working on projects ranging from detailed field measurements of micrometeorology, intercropping water use, water harvesting through to applications of crop and rainfall modeling for risk analysis at a seasonal scale including the use of weather and climate information by the agricultural community at large.

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