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March 25, 2014

Stanford experts on climate change, adaptation and mitigation

The much-anticipated release of the report of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be released Monday, March 31. Members of the media with questions about the report may wish to contact these Stanford experts for insight and interviews.

Chris Field
Co-chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); director of Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology; professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Stanford University; senior fellow at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; senior fellow at Precourt Institute for Energy.
Contact:
 cfield@ciw.edu, (650) 823-5326. Note: Field will be in Japan for the release of IPCC Working Group II's report March 20-31, when it will be easiest to contact him via media@ipcc.wg2.gov. Limited available through March 29; good availability after that.
Expertise: International expert on climate change, including impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Global perspective crossing regions and sectors. Special expertise on ecosystems and agriculture.

Noah Diffenbaugh
A lead author for Chapter 26 ("North America Regional Aspects") and regional climate summary figures of the report being issued by IPCC Working Group II; associate professor of Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford University; senior fellow at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contactdiffenbaugh@stanford.edu, (650) 223-9425
Expertise: Research interests are centered on the dynamics and impacts of climate variability and change, including the role of humans as a coupled component of the climate system.

David Lobell
A lead author for Chapter 7 ("Food Production Systems and Food Security") of the report being issued by IPCC Working Group II; associate professor of Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford University; senior fellow at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Contact: dlobell@stanford.edu
Expertise: Food security and climate change. Can speak on opportunities to raise crop yields in major agricultural regions, including Africa, South Asia, Mexico and the United States.

Terry Root
Review editor for Chapter 4 ("Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems") of report being issued by IPCC Working Group II; senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; professor, by courtesy, of Biology, Stanford University.
Contact: troot@stanford.edu, (650) 736-1296
Expertise: The impacts of global warming on ecological systems. Can speak on how changing climate affects species adaptation.

Michael Mastrandrea
Co-director of science for IPCC Working Group II Technical Support Unit; assistant consulting professor at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: mikemas@stanford.edu, (650) 741-4201. Note: He will be in Japan for the release of IPCC Working Group II's report March 20-31, when it will be easiest to contact him via media@ipcc.wg2.gov. Limited available through March 29; good availability after that.
Expertise: Climate vulnerability and impacts assessment as a tool for risk management of climate change.

Katharine ("Katie") Mach
Co-director of science for IPCC Working Group II Technical Support Unit, Carnegie Institution, Stanford University
Contact: mach@stanford.edu, (650) 561-5640. Note: She will be in Japan for the release of IPCC Working Group II's report March 20-31, when it will be easiest to contact her via media@ipcc.wg2.gov. Limited available through March 29; good availability after that.
Expertise: Methods of assessment and treatment of uncertainties and risk in climate change assessments and decision-making.

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Contact

Terry Nagel, communications manager, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment: (650) 498-0607, tnagel@stanford.edu

Dan Stober, Stanford News Service, (650) 721-6965, dstober@stanford.edu

 

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