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	Expert sources from America's colleges and universities to discuss and interpret climate change research, policy, and social impact.




Matthew (Matt) Elrod Chair of the Chemistry Department Oberlin College Office: 440/775-6583 Email: Matthew.Elrod@oberlin.edu Expertise: In Elrod's laboratory, the research goal is to improve understanding of the effects of changes to the environment caused by human activities. Current projects include the study of hydrocarbon oxidation mechanisms that lead to an increase in ground-level ozone and particle pollution (where it is the primary constituent of smog, a respiratory irritant), and the formation of organic-laden atmospheric particles thought to play a role in the formation of clouds and in the Earth's climate system. This research has implications for bringing local and state governments in compliance with the Federal Clean Air Act. Elrod has also conducted research on the impact of aerosols on air quality and climate change. Elrod teaches physical chemistry, general chemistry, and environmental chemistry. For more info on Elrod’s research: http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/mjelrod/

Ray Hoff Professor of Physics Director, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology Director, Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center University of Maryland, Baltimore County Telephone: 410/455-1610 Email: hoff@umbc.edu Expertise: Over 30 years of experience in research on atmospheric pollution and its impact on climate. Hoff's research group publishes the "Smog Blog," a daily online analysis of U.S. air quality (http://alg.umbc.edu/usaq). Hoff directs two NASA Goddard collaborative research centers at UMBC and has advised NASA on space shuttle experiments.

Virginia McConnell Professor of Economics University of Maryland, Baltimore County Telephone: 410/455-2068 Email: mcconnel@umbc.edu Expertise: The impact of policies to reduce air pollution through vehicle emissions regulations, inspection and maintenance programs, fuel regulations, emission taxes, and land-use changes.



Bruce Selleck Professor of Geology Colgate University Telephone: 315/228-7949 Email: bselleck@colgate.edu Expertise: Selleck can provide expert analysis of one of the most controversial topics on the environmental front in years: the proposed drilling for natural gas. "We are in the midst of a natural gas expansion," Selleck says. "We need to be aware of it, take advantage of it, and realize the trade-offs involved." He believes the current gas boom "provides an economic opportunity for landowners, but also involves environmental risks."



Kenneth Young Professor College of Liberal Arts The University of Texas at Austin Telephone: 512/232-1578 Email: kryoung@austin.utexas.edu Expertise: Tropical landscapes and their ecology, biogeography, and sustainable use. Young teaches courses on biodiversity conservation, climate change, comparative ecosystems, and biogeography.



Brian D. Linkhart Associate Professor of Biology Colorado College Office: 719/389-6605 Home: 719/528-6163 Email: blinkhart@coloradocollege.edu Expertise: Linkhart specializes in the effects of climate change on birds. He has studied forest birds for 30 years, including research on how temperature changes over this timeframe are associated with earlier breeding in a migratory owl species.



Heather J. Ellis Sustainability Coordinator Saint Michael's College Telephone: 802/654-2733 Email: hellis@smcvt.edu Website: http://www.smcvt.edu/sustainability/ Expertise: Heather facilitates the development of strategies for incorporating environmental sustainability into the academic, residential and operational activities of Saint Michael's College. She serves as the single point of contact on environmental sustainability topics and activities for the campus community. Heather manages the college's recycling and compost programs, the Organic Garden, environmental education programs in the Residence Halls and among staff and faculty as well as advises the student environmental club Green Up. Upcoming projects include the completion of the college's first complete Greenhouse Gas Inventory which will then lead to the development of the college's Sustainability Action Plan, providing a "green"print for how Saint Michael's College will reduce it's impact on the environment.



Benjamin Felzer Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Lehigh University Telephone: 610/758-6656 Email: dis204@lehigh.edu Expertise: The Terrestrial Ecosystems Model, a biogeochemical model of the carbon, nitrogen and water cycles, to understand the effects of the land surface, particularly vegetation, on the global carbon cycle. http://www3.lehigh.edu/steps/research/felzer.html

Susan Kovorka Senior Research Scientist Bureau of Economic Geology The University of Texas at Austin Telephone: 512/471-4863 Email: susan.hovorka@beg.utexas.edu Expertise: Techniques for permanently storing carbon dioxide deep underground as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere and tackle climate change. The process is known as carbon sequestration, or carbon capture and storage. She is the principal investigator for the university’s Gulf Coast Carbon Center, which is pioneering the monitoring tools needed to ensure that the carbon dioxide stays put after it’s injected underground.

Mark Griffin Smith Professor of Economics Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Office: 719/389-6411 Home: 719/633-1442 Email: msmith@ColoradoCollege.edu Expertise: Political economy of climate policy, with emphasis on carbon markets and behavioral economics and climate policy. He was a Fulbright European Affairs Scholar in 2009 living in Brussels to study the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS). He has written op-eds to explain European policy to Americans and American policy to Europeans.



Jay Banner Professor of Geology Director, Environmental Science Institute The University of Texas at Austin Telephone: 512/471-5016 Email: banner@mail.utexas.edu Expertise: Banner is a professor and the Chevron Centennial Fellow in Geology in the Department of Geological Sciences, as well as director of the Environmental Science Institute. He studies the chemical evolution of groundwater and ancient oceans, and the control of changing climate on these processes. Modern aquifers, ancient limestone and cave deposits, including those of Central Texas, provide excellent records of these processes. Teaches the course Sustaining a Planet.



Kristopher Wilson Senior Lecturer College of Communications The University of Texas at Austin Telephone: 512/471-4975 Email: drkris@mail.utexas.edu Expertise: Communication of climate change science. His research analyzes press coverage of climate change, factors that influence global warming reporting and public (mis)understanding of mediated science. Recently, he has studied the role of TV weathercasters in communicating climate change science. Wilson spent more than a decade working in television as a news director, executive producer, anchor, reporter, and weather anchor.



Lisa Greer Assistant Professor of Geology Washington and Lee University Telephone: 540/458-8870 Telephone: 540/460-8779 Email: greerl@wlu.edu Expertise: In addition to teaching a course on global climate change, Greer has conducted research on the impact that climate change might have on coral reefs. According to Greer, coral reefs are an important barometer of our oceans’ health. She focuses on a coral species, Staghorn, that is one of two listed on the endangered species list. She compares fossilized specimens of Staghorn coral that grew between 9,000 to 5,000 years ago to small samples harvested off the Barbados shore within the last two years. Examining the chemical composition of each provides a snapshot of environmental conditions from the two geological eras and helps determine what role climate change has had along with such other scenarios as disease, pollution, and overfishing.



Dork Sahagian Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Director of the Environmental Initiative Lehigh University Telephone: 610/758-6656 Email: dis204@lehigh.edu Expertise: Sahagian has created a program for environmental science, technology, economics, education, policy, and the myriad interactions between people and the environment. He conducts research in paleoclimatology, volcanology, stratigraphy, geodynamics and tectonics, global hydrology and sea level. Sahagian contributed to three of four assessment reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which in 2007 was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. Sahagian says just as we declared war on terror following 9/11, the time is ripe for us to declare war on climate change. “We need to mobilize a public that does not connect climate change mitigation to personal well-being or the well-being of their children. Waiting for climate-change impacts to manifest is akin to waiting until hijacked planes are flown into tall buildings to enhance passenger security at airports-the exception being there are many buildings and only one climate system on Earth.” More at http://www4.lehigh.edu/news/debate/climate.aspx



Mark Simmons Ecologist Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center The University of Texas at Austin Telephone: 512/232-0223 Email: msimmons@wildflower.org Expertise: Ecological issues. His research has included controlling invasive species, studying the use of native vegetation for green roofs and alternative grasses for lawns, and the role of urban greenspaces to combat climate change. Simmons also participates in Wildflower Center consulting projects that include park design at the Mueller redevelopment project, a mixed-use urban village in Austin.



John Gatewood Professor of Anthropology Lehigh University Telephone: 610/758-6656 Email: dis204@lehigh.edu Expertise: Funded by the National Science Foundation, John Gatewood examines residents' understanding of tourism and its impact on the Turks and Caicos Islands. Though there are economic benefits derived from tourism, is such tourism good in such a fragile ecosystem and what impact does it have on the local culture? http://www3.lehigh.edu/steps/research/gatewood.html



Bob Brecha Professor; Director of Sustainability, Energy, Environment Initiative University of Dayton Telephone: 937/229-2727 Email: Robert.Brecha@notes.udayton.edu Expertise: Energy and the economy. Bob Brecha is a physics professor at the University of Dayton and director of the University's Sustainability, Energy and Environment initiative. In 2010, he received a Fulbright Scholar Grant to conduct climate change research at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, where he has spent the last four summers. Brecha's research focuses on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while avoiding serious economic consequences. In 2008, Brecha published a paper in Energy Policy titled "Emission Scenarios in the Face of Fossil Fuel Peaking." In the study, Brecha examined the geological and economic effects of global oil production peaking. While depletion of fossil fuel resources might serve as a natural limit to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, a sudden shortage of these fuels would lead to increased prices and potential economic disaster, he said. "Without cheap fossil fuel energy, it becomes much more difficult to make a painless transition to a whole new energy system." In 2009, Brecha co-founded a small business in Yellow Springs, Ohio, that conducts home energy audits and recommends ways to reduce energy consumption.



Alec M. Bodzin Associate Professor Teaching, Learning, and Technology Program and Lehigh Environmental Initiative Lehigh University Telephone: 610/758-6656 Email: dis204@lehigh.edu His complete profile can be found: Expertise: Environmental literacy and the design of web-based inquiry learning environments; learning with spatial thinking tools including GIS, Google Earth and remotely sensed images; design and implementation of inquiry-based environmental science and environmental curriculum; visual instructional technologies; motivation and learning; and the use of instructional technologies to promote learning. According to Bodzin, “I believe that the most necessary future developments related to climate change is to get all people to think ‘sustainable thoughts’ with regards to everything that we do. For instance, we do not need to leave cell phone chargers, video game devices, DVD players, and other ‘vampire energy devices’ plugged into the wall outlet 24 hours a day since these are consuming electricity. We need a major culture shift in our country to reduce our consumption practices and rethink the notion that the ‘American Dream’ is owning a large house with a big yard.” His complete profile can be found at: http://www.lehigh.edu/education/profiles/bodzin.html



Douglas E. Facey Professor of Biology Saint Michael's College Executive Director, Lake Champlain Research Consortium Telephone: 802-860-1354 or 802-654-2625 Email: dfacey@smcvt.edu Expertise: Physiology and ecology of fishes. Facey teaches various biology courses, including Ichthyology (the biology of fishes) and Human and Comparative Physiology. His research interests include fish community diversity and stability, ecology of endangered/threatened fishes, and physiological indicators of environmental stress in fishes. Facey has over 30 years of research experience with freshwater fishes, most of which has been in Lake Champlain and its tributaries.



Thom Davis Professor of Geology and Climatology Department of Natural and Applied Sciences Bentley University Telephone: 781/891-2725 Email: pdavis@bentley.edu Expertise: Glacial geology and climate change in arctic and alpine areas. Davis has received numerous research grants from the National Science Foundation for field work on Baffin Island in Canadian Arctic and in the American Rocky Mountains. He has written over 30 peer-reviewed articles on the glacial and climate history of mountainous areas of New England, western North America, and arctic Canada. Says Davis, “Just because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made a mistake in their 2800+ page Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 by stating that Himalayan glaciers will melt away by AD 2035, does not mean that anthropogenic global warming is not the most serious threat ever to human civilization. Glaciers today are undergoing the most rapid retreat in the past 10,000 years or more.”

Steven Wojtal Professor of Geology Oberlin College Office: 440/775-8352 Email: Steven.Wojtal@oberlin.edu Expertise: Wojtal teaches a course on "Glaciology, Ice Ages and Climate Change." Wojtal uses glaciers as a window to understanding the Earth's climate system and the history of climate change on Earth, critically analyzing human-induced climate change, and examining what studies of climate history suggest for the prospect of rapid climate change in the near future. Wojtal bio: www.oberlin.edu/Geopage/staff/Faculty/Wojtal.html



Ginny Catania Research Associate Institute for Geophysics The University of Texas at Austin Telephone: 512/471-0403 Email: gcatania@utig.ig.utexas.edu Expertise: Ice processes that contribute to sea level rise, particularly in the Greenland ice sheet and Antarctica's ice sheets. She designed the "Wired Antarctica" Web page, an interactive site for teachers and students interested in learning more about Antarctic science.



Mark Carey Assistant Professor of History Washington and Lee University Telephone: 540/458-8772 Telephone: 540/460-8779 (evening) Email: careym@wlu.edu Expertise: The author of In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers (Oxford University Press, April 2010), Mark Carey uses history to identify the types of societal, political, economic and cultural problems that emerge from climate change. Noting that the historical perspective is often missed in the study of climate change, or other natural disasters, Carey has focused his work on Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range, where the glaciers have been melting for decades. Glacial lake outbursts and glacier avalanches have killed 25,000 people in that region since 1941. He studies the various ways in which local urban and rural populations, irrigators, hydro-electric generators, policy makers, scientists, engineers and international non-government organizations respond to the impact and what those responses can suggest about how we might manage future challenges created by climate change.

Stephen Cutcliffe Professor of History Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program Lehigh University Telephone: 610/758-6656 Email: dis204@lehigh.edu Expertise: The historical intersection between technological change and the environment. He teaches courses in American environmental history and is also researching whether nanotechnology's advances have an invisible price tag by probing the possible long-term effects on the environment, public health and society. He is the author of several books including Ideas, Machines, and Values: An Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society Studies (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000). He also co-edited with Robert C. Post the book In Context: History and the History of Technology--Essays in Honor of Melvin Kranzberg (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 1989), and with Carl Mitcham, the book Visions of STS : Counterpoints in Science, Technology, and Society Studies (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001). His complete profile can be found: http://www3.lehigh.edu/steps/research/cutcliffe.html

Greg Wiles Associate Professor of Geology, Department Chair The College of Wooster Office: 330/263-2298 Home: 330/264-8574 Email: gwiles@wooster.edu Expertise: Recent reports of impropriety in the collection and recording of climate records have rocked the scientific community. But Greg Wiles points out that the recent doubt cast on dendroclimatology (the use of tree-rings to infer past climate conditions) only strengthens the science and deepens the understanding of the impact that changing climate has on the biosphere. Wiles, who cores living trees and extracts cross-sections of fallen trees, has been working for more than 20 years to make the climate record more complete. One factor that has complicated the research is a phenomenon known as divergence, whereby some species of trees flourish because of the warmer temperatures while others decline and do not track the increasing temperatures. This has caused some skeptics to call the records into question, but Wiles argues that it makes the data even more robust because it forces geoscientists to re-examine their field sampling and statistical analyses.



Susan Clayton Professor of Psychology and Environmental Studies The College of Wooster Office: 330/263-2565 Home: 440/774-2722 Email: sclayton@wooster.edu Expertise: Human behavior continues to disrupt the world's natural ecosystems. Psychologists believe that this behavior can be influenced through a better understanding about how the natural environment affects human well-being. Susan Clayton, professor of psychology and author of Conservation Psychology: Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature, as well as a member of the American Psychological Association's National Task Force on Psychology and Global Climate Change, says that in order to address environmental challenges, we must consider human perceptions and responses. "The natural world has psychological implications that are often overlooked," says Clayton, who specializes in the study of the ways in which people relate to nature. "Psychologists need to address sustainability, and psychological research should inform environmental policy. If we want to address climate change, we need to communicate the role of human behavior and the implications for human well-being."

Eric (Rick) Oches Associate Professor of Geology and Environmental Sciences Department of Natural and Applied Sciences Bentley University Telephone: 781/891-2725 Email: roches@bentley.edu Expertise: Earth's recent climate history and human and environmental response to climate changes in the past, present, and future. Field research in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, Argentina, Alaska, midcontinent United States, and Yemen. Oches’ academic interests increasingly center on environmental sustainability in the context of population growth, increasing natural resource consumption, environmental degradation, and global climate change. Says Oches, “Environmental sustainability requires innovative planning on the part of individuals, business, and governments so that current economic growth doesn’t negatively impact the resource needs, environmental health, economic development, and standard of living of future generations in all regions of the world. The scientific basis of global climate change and its effects on water resources, agriculture, ecosystems, and coastal communities is well established and must be incorporated into sustainability planning for our future well-being.”



John Pumilio Sustainability Coordinator Colgate University Telephone: 315/228-6487 Email: jpumilio@colgate.edu Expertise: Overseeing Colgate's multi-faceted sustainability efforts, Pumilio strives to integrate climate change awareness into the campus culture. Pumilio believes Colgate, like other campuses, should be a "laboratory for sustainability." Pumilio explains, "students will research sustainability issues in classes and their work can have real and meaningful practical implications." For example, he is managing the growth of willow crop on campus-owned land, which will be used to heat the university. The project grew out of an environmental studies seminar for which four students researched the feasibility of growing willow in order to reduce Colgate's carbon emissions as well as its dependence on fossil fuels.



John Martin Gillroy Professor of International Relations Lehigh University Telephone: 610/758-6656 Email: dis204@lehigh.edu Expertise: Gillroy is working on a six-year project that involves three arguments about the past, present and future of international law. In the third phase of his research, Gillroy will examine international environmental law to determine what the completion of the Kantian reasoning might mean for law and the legal system as it integrates humanity's and nature's integrity in law through what he calls the 'Ecological Contract'. http://www3.lehigh.edu/steps/research/gillroy.html



Erle Ellis Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems University of Maryland, Baltimore County Telephone: 410/455-3078 Email: ece@umbc.edu Expertise: The ecology of human-managed landscapes and their changes at local, regional, and global scales. He has been investigating long-term environmental changes in rural China since 1992 and in urban and suburban Baltimore since 2000. His recent work characterizes global patterns of human-altered ecosystems (anthropogenic biomes).



Ed Lorenz Public Affairs Director Professor of Political Science and History Alma College Office: 989/463-7203 Home: 989/463-6170 Email: Lorenz@alma.edu Specialization: Lorenz is a policy expert in EPA Superfund issues and environmental law. He helped form a Citizens Advisory Group (CAG) in Gratiot County, Michigan, that is a major force in monitoring and participating in governmental agencies' decisions during the cleanup of one of the nation's worst Superfund sites. He also helped organize a 2008 DDT Conference on Environment and Health, which attracted many leading scientists to Alma for a discussion about the impact of DDT on human health and the environment. Conference attendees produced a "consensus statement" calling for increased efforts to reduce exposure to DDT and to develop alternatives to using DDT for malaria control.

Hari M. Osofsky Associate Professor of Law Washington and Lee University Telephone: 540/458-8259 Telephone: 540/460-8779 (evening) Email: osofskyh@wlu.edu Expertise: (1) climate change law and (2) law and geography. Her current writing projects include several articles, a co-edited book on climate change litigation with Cambridge University Press, and a casebook on climate change law and policy forthcoming with Aspen Publishers. Osofsky’s advocacy work has included assisting with Earthjustice’s annual submissions to the U.N. Human Rights Commission on environmental rights and with the Inuit Circumpolar Conference’s petition on climate change to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.



Larrabee Strow Professor of Physics University of Maryland, Baltimore County Telephone: 410/455-2528 Email: strow@umbc.edu Expertise: Strow helped to design and calibrate the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, a highly precise instrument in AQUA, a $2 billion NASA satellite that monitors long-term global change in the Earth's atmosphere and climate. Strow is also a fellow with UMBC's Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology.



Louisa Bradtmiller Assistant Professor of Climate Science Macalester College Office: 651/696-6203 Email: lbradtmi@macalester.edu Expertise: The ocean's role in climate change over glacial-interglacial timescales. Her recent research includes the use of uranium-series isotopes in the reconstruction of glacial ocean circulation rates, and in the characterization of those same isotopes in modern seawater and sediments. She is also involved in ongoing research into ocean biogeochemistry and nutrient cycling, with a focus on the transfer of carbon between the ocean and atmosphere during periods of past climate change.



Tim Brennan Professor of Public Policy University of Maryland, Baltimore County Telephone: 410/455-3229 Email: brennan@umbc.edu Expertise: Market-based solutions to global warming. His research fields of interest include antitrust policy, regulatory economics, telecommunications policy, electricity restructuring, intellectual property, the First Amendment, and ethical and methodological issues in policy analysis. He served on the Clinton White House staff as senior economist for industrial organization and regulation with the Council of Economic Advisers.

David W. Orr Paul Sears Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics Oberlin College Office: 440/775-8312 Email: David.Orr@oberlin.edu Expertise: Best known for his pioneering work on environmental literacy in higher education and his recent work in ecological design, Orr spearheaded the effort to design and build a $7.2 million Environmental Studies Center at Oberlin College. The building, described by the New York Times as "the most remarkable" of a new generation of college buildings, is listed among the 30 "milestone buildings" of the 20th century by the U.S. Department of Energy. The author of five books, including Design on the Edge: The Making of a High Performance Building and The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment, Orr has published 150 articles in scientific journals, social science publications, and popular magazines, and is a contributing editor of Conservation Biology.

David Szymanski Assistant Professor of Geology and Forensic Science Bentley University Telephone: 781/891-2725 Email: dszymanski@bentley.edu Expertise: Communicating concepts of science for policy development on issues of energy, natural resources, and climate change, most recently serving as a congressional fellow and science policy advisor to U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT). As a practicing forensic scientist, Prof. Szymanski specializes in trace evidence examination and consults in both criminal and civil investigations. His research and teaching interests in both disciplines focus on how matter moves and changes with time and how understanding complex systems can help non-scientists solve real-world problems. Says Szymanski, “Science literacy informs social and political decision-making. Understanding earth processes can help people make sound civic decisions on ‘voting issues’—the policy questions directly related to how the Earth works.”



Chad Briggs Assistant Professor of International Relations Lehigh University Telephone: 610/758-6656 Email: dis204@lehigh.edu Expertise: Post-conflict environmental health in the regions affected by the war. Supported by the Institute for Environmental Security at The Hague and coordinating his efforts with the Southeastern European Research Center in Greece, he is analyzing the effectiveness of Swedish reconstruction policy in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the resulting environmental consequences. He studies abrupt climate change security assessments and scenario methodologies. More information at: http://www3.lehigh.edu/steps/research/briggs.html



Adam Burnett Professor of Geology Colgate University Telephone: 315/228-7252 Email: aburnett@colgate.edu Expertise: The impact of warmer temperatures on snowfall totals. Warmer temperatures, possibly due to global warming, have had a substantial impact on the Great Lakes region of the U.S.: more snow, according to lake-effect snow expert Burnett. A comparative study of snowfall records in and outside of the Great Lakes region indicated a significant increase in snowfall since the 1930s, he said, but no such increase in non-Great Lakes areas. Burnett led a team of researchers who found that Syracuse, N.Y., one of the snowiest cities in the U.S., experienced four of its largest snowfalls on record in the 1990s - the warmest decade in the 20th century, as a result of global warming.

Milt Halem Research Professor of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering Director, Multicore Computational Center University of Maryland, Baltimore County Telephone: 410/455-3500 Email: mhalem@pop900.gsfc.nasa.gov Expertise: Halem leads the Multicore Computational Center, a collaborative effort between IBM and UMBC to use networks of the supercomputer-on-a-chip technology found in the Sony Playstation3 for research related to aerospace/defense, financial services, medical imaging, and weather/climate change prediction. Halem is the former chief information officer for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Halem's numerous career awards include the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, the agency's highest honor.

Jeff Halverson Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems Associate Director, Academics, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (NASA Goddard) University of Maryland, Baltimore County Telephone: 301/614-6333 Email: jeffhalv@umbc.edu Expertise: Halverson works with researchers from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on how tropical weather systems develop into hurricanes and whether climate change is a factor. His research includes piloting planes into hurricane systems.





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