Thursday, May 30th - Con Edison Building, NYC
Biographies
Challenges and Opportunities in
Climate Change
Bio: Dr. Alan Robock, Professor II, Rutgers University, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.
Session 4 - Smoke and Mirrors: Is Geoengineering a Solution to Global Warming? Abstract
Dr. Alan Robock Professor II (Distinguished Professor) of climatology in the Dept. of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University. He also directs the Rutgers Undergraduate Meteorology Program. He graduated from the Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1970 with a B.A. in Meteorology, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an S.M. in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1977, both in Meteorology. Before graduate school, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. He was a professor at the Univ. of Maryland, 1977-1997, and the State Climatologist of Maryland, 1991-1997, before coming to Rutgers.
Prof. Robock has published more than 300 articles on his research in the area of climate change, including more than 180 peer-reviewed papers. His areas of expertise include geoengineering, climatic effects of nuclear war, effects of volcanic eruptions on climate, regional atmosphere-hydrology modeling, and soil moisture variations. He serves as Editor of Reviews of Geophysics, the most highly-cited journal in the Earth Sciences.
His honors include being a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Geophysical Union. Prof. Robock is a Lead Author of the upcoming Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the group which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University Corp. for Atmospheric Research, which operates the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
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