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 th