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Oceanographer anticipates dramatic and challenging climate changes By: Staff Apr 23, 2008 Leader of climate change research to discuss evidence of strong Arctic warming
ANCHORAGE, AK – Corell will address how the Arctic region, more than any other region in the world, provides a bellwether, a “canary-in-the-mine” for the world at-large as climate change impacts more directly lower latitudes in the coming decades.
Dr. Corell will discuss how climate change is taking place within the context of many other ongoing changes, including the globalization, poverty and hunger, land use changes, rapid growth in the human population, and changes in cultural, governance, and economic conditions. He will explain how impacts on the environment and society result not from climate change alone, but from the interplay of all of these changes.
A leader of climate change research in America, Dr. Corell attended the ceremony to accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the award with Al Gore. He is recognized for his efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. For his extraordinary efforts, Dr. Corell will receive an Honorary Doctor of Science at this year’s UAA’s Commencement Ceremony.
Dr. Corell currently serves as the Director of the Global Change Program at the Heinz Center, a nonprofit institution dedicated to improving the scientific and economic foundation for environmental policy through multisectoral collaboration among industry, government, academia and environmental organizations. Before taking that position in December 2006, Dr. Corell served as 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 also serves as the Chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, counsels as Senior Science Advisor to ManyOne.Net, and is Chair of the Board of the Digital Universe Foundation.
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. He was also 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.
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