September 10, 2019
MEDIA ADVISORY: Stanford experts for #CoveringClimateNow initiative
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Stanford scholars with expertise on climate change drivers, impacts and related issues are available to comment for coverage leading up to the UN Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23, as part of the #CoveringClimateNow project. Stanford’s unique approach to interdisciplinary, data-driven work has led to powerful insights on issues such as global warming’s effect on inequality and agriculture, and solutions such as methane conversion and virtual reality education.
Read more about Stanford climate change-related research: https://news.stanford.edu/2017/06/02/science-of-climate-change/
For assistance locating faculty members, contact Rob Jordan at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment: rjordan@stanford.edu, (415) 760-8058.
Biology
Elizabeth Hadly
Hadly has conducted extensive research throughout North and South America on the ecology and evolution of vertebrates. In 2012, Hadly co-authored a paper that found that the planet may be nearing a critical threshold beyond which environmental changes will be rapid and unpredictable. Based on the findings, then California Gov. Jerry Brown asked Hadly to compile a scientific consensus statement on climate change, which Brown distributed to dozens of world leaders. Hadly is the Paul S. and Billie Achilles Professor in environmental biology at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: hadly@stanford.edu, (650) 725-2655
Expertise: Biology, threatened species
Climate and Carbon Accounting
Rob Jackson
Jackson studies the effects of climate change and droughts on forests and grasslands, and recently mapped thousands of natural gas leaks across cities such as Boston and Washington, D.C. He chairs the Global Carbon Project, which compiles data on fossil fuel emissions and deforestation, and previously chaired the Department of Energy’s National Institute for Climate Change Research in the southeastern U.S. His recent work has focused on what window of time is left to limit warming to below 2 degrees Celsius. Jackson is the Douglas Provostial Professor at Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences; senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; and senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy.
Contact: rob.jackson@stanford.edu, (650) 497-5841
Expertise: Climate change, drought, land use, full life-cycle carbon accounting, effects of climate and drought on forest mortality, fracking and drinking water quality and urban natural gas leaks.
Climate and Food Security
David Lobell
Lobell’s research focuses on identifying opportunities to raise crop yields in major agricultural regions, with a particular emphasis on adaptation to climate change. He is the Gloria and Richard Kushel Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment; a professor of Earth System Science at Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences; and William Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Contact: dlobell@stanford.edu, (650) 725-2606
Expertise: Food security, crop yields and climate change.
Climate and Oceans
Stephen Palumbi
Palumbi is an internationally recognized expert on climate change impacts on marine life. His current work focuses on how coral reefs can adapt to climate change and the genetics of marine reserves designed for conservation and fisheries enhancement, with projects in the Philippines, Bahamas and U.S. West Coast. Palumbi is the Harold A. Miller Professor in Marine Sciences, director of Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: spalumbi@stanford.edu, (831) 655-6210
Expertise: Climate change and ocean acidification.
Climate, Water and Drought
Noah Diffenbaugh
Diffenbaugh studies the climate system, including the processes by which climate change could increase extreme weather events such as drought and impact agriculture, water resources and human health. He has served as a lead author for Working Group II of the IPCC, and has provided testimony and scientific expertise to the White House, the Governor of California and U.S. congressional offices. Diffenbaugh is the Kara J. Foundation Professor of Earth System Science at Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and the Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: diffenbaugh@stanford.edu, (650) 223-9425
Expertise: The climate system, including the processes by which climate change could impact agriculture, water resources, extreme weather events and human health.
Conservation
Jim Leape
A 30-year veteran of conservation work on every continent, Leape is the former director of WWF International and leader of the global WWF Network, one of the world’s largest conservation organizations. Leape is the co-director of the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions and the William and Eva Price Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: jleape@stanford.edu, (650) 498-0916
Expertise: Climate change, conservation and natural resource management; Chinese environmental policy, forest protection, marine conservation, water resources management and sustainability in global commodity markets.
Economics
Charles Kolstad
Kolstad is an internationally known environmental economist with a focus on industrial organization and public economics. He has been a convening lead author for the IPCC. His research interests are in information, uncertainty and regulation, with much of his applied work in the area of climate change and energy markets. He is a professor, by courtesy, of economics; senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy; and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
Contact: ckolstad@stanford.edu, (650) 721-1663
Expertise: Economics of greenhouse-gas regulation and climate-change policies.
Energy
Sally Benson
A groundwater hydrologist and reservoir engineer, Benson is a leading authority on carbon capture and storage and emerging energy technologies. Benson is a professor of energy resources engineering in Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences; co-director of the Precourt Institute for Energy; and director of the Global Climate & Energy Project. She is also a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and an affiliate at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: smbenson@stanford.edu; (650) 725-0358
Expertise: Geologic storage of CO2 in deep underground formations, technologies and energy systems for a low-carbon future, energy in the developing world and global energy policy.
Law and Policy
Deborah Sivas
Sivas is a leading environmental lawyer whose litigation successes include challenging the Bush administration’s gas mileage standards for SUVs and light trucks. Her current research is focused on the interaction of law and science in the arena of climate change and coastal/marine policy and the ability of the public to hold policymakers accountable. She is the Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law, director of the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic and senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: dsivas@stanford.edu, (650) 723-0325
Expertise: Environmental law and policy.
Psychology and Human Behavior
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
Wong-Parodi is a psychologist who applies social, behavioral and decision science approaches to understand how people react and are affected by global environmental change in order to develop interventions to improve adaptive capacity and resiliency. Her recent work has focused on the impacts of natural hazards and extreme events on individuals and communities coping with hurricanes and floods. Wong-Parodi is a professor of Earth System Science at Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and a center fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: gwongpar@stanford.edu, (650) 725-6457
Expertise: Natural disaster psychological and behavioral impacts, climate risk and adaptation.
Sea Level Rise, Ice Sheets and Glaciers
Dustin Schroeder
Schroeder’s research focuses on subglacial water and assessing the stability of continental ice sheets, such as Antarctica, and their contribution to the rate of sea-level rise. Schroeder uses airborne ice-penetrating radar to measure the thickness of ice sheets, bed conditions underneath glaciers and ice melt from underneath the glacial surface. Schroeder is a professor of geophysics in Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and an affiliate of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: Dustin.M.Schroeder@stanford.edu, (650) 725-7861
Expertise: Sea level rise, ice sheets, Antarctica, Greenland, glaciers.
UN IPCC Processes, Climate Resilience and Adaptation
Chris Field
Field’s research emphasizes field and laboratory studies of impacts of climate change, from the molecular to the global scale. From 2008 to 2015, Field was co-chair of Working Group II of the IPCC. He is the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; founding director of the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Global Ecology; the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences and School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences; and senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy.
Contact: cfield@stanford.edu, (650) 736-4352
Expertise: Climate change, including impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Global perspective crossing regions and sectors. Special expertise on ecosystems and agriculture.
Additional Stanford climate experts can be found at https://news.stanford.edu/expertise/climate-change/
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