Speakers
Dr. Robert W. Corell
Chair, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment; and Senior Fellow, Atmospheric Policy Program, American Meteorological Society
Dr. Robert W. Corell is a Senior Policy Fellow at the Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society and an Affiliate of the Washington Advisory Group. He recently completed an appointment that began in January 2000 as a Senior Research Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Corell is currently actively engaged in research concerned with the sciences of global change and the interface between science and public policy, particularly research activities that are focused on global and regional climate change, related environmental issues, and science to facilitate understanding of vulnerability and sustainable development.
He is the Co-Chair of an international strategic planning group that is developing the strategy for and the programs and activities designed to harness science, technology, and innovation for sustainable development. This planning effort is sponsored by the International Council of Sciences (ICSU), the Third World Academy of Science (TWAS), and a major international initiative, supported in part by a grant from the Packard Foundation entitled “An International Initiative for Science Technology, and Innovation for Sustainability (ISTS).” Dr. Corell is the lead for an international partnership to better understand and plan for a transition to hydrogen for several nations, entitled the “Global Hydrogen Partnership”, which is currently focused on Iceland, India, and the eight Arctic nations seeking to address this important new energy strategy and economic policy. He is also leading a research project to explore methods, models, and conceptual frameworks for vulnerability research, analysis, and assessment—the current focus of which is on vulnerabilities of indigenous communities in the Arctic. Furthermore, he currently serves as the Chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, which is an international assessment of the impacts of climate variability, change, and UV increases in the Arctic Region, and he is the Chair of an international R&D planning effort for the Arctic region focusing on the next one to two decades. He is also the Senior Science Advisor to ManyOne.Net, a Silicon Valley team designing the next generation of Internet Web Browser, which is placing its initial focus on planet Earth, and he is Chair of the Board of the Digital Universe Foundation.
Prior to January 2000, Dr. Corell was Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation where he had oversight for the Atmospheric, Earth, and Ocean Sciences and the global change programs of the National Science Foundation (NSF). While at the NSF, he also served as the chair of the National Science and Technology Council’s committee that has oversight of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and was chair of the international committee of government agencies funding global change research. Further, he has served as chair and principal U.S. delegate to many international bodies with interests in and responsibilities for climate and global change research programs. Prior to joining the NSF in 1987, he was a professor and academic administrator at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Corell is an oceanographer and engineer by background and training, having received Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees at Case Western Reserve University and MIT and he has held appointments at the Woods Hole Institution of Oceanography, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Washington, and Case Western Reserve University.
Links and Publications
Corell, R. W., 2006: “An Overview of Past and Projected Consequences for Marine and Terrestrial Systems,” prepared for the hearing of the Subcommittee on Global Climate Change of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, Wednesday, April 26, 2006;
Anthes, R. A., R. W. Corell, G. Holland, J. W. Hurrell, M. C. MacCracken and K. E. Trenberth, 2006: Hurricanes and global warming – Potential linkages and consequences, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87, 623-628.
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), 2004, Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, Cambridge University Press, 140 pp.
National Assessment Synthesis Team, 2001, Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change: Foundation Report, U. S. Global Change Research Program, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 612 pp.
National Assessment Synthesis Team, 2000, Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change: Overview Report, U. S. Global Change Research Program, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 154 pp.
