Workshop Participants

Tony Leiserowitz

Tony's research focuses on the role of experiential factors, such as emotion, metaphor, narrative, values, and cultural worldviews in environmental risk perception, decision-making and behavior.…
Yale University
University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame

J. Baird Callicott

J. Baird Callicott is Regents Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies in the Institute of Applied Sciences at the University of North Texas. From 1997-2000…
University of North Texas

George Seielstad

Dr. George A. Seielstad is Director of the Northern Great Plains Center for People and the Environment at the University of North Dakota. In this…
University of North Dakota

Mort Webster

Mort David Webster is Assistant Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research and teaching focuses on environmental and energy systems…
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Richard Smith

Richard's studies focus on spatial statistics, time series analysis, extreme value theory and Bayesian statistics. Specifically, his interests include spatial and time series modeling of…
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)

Denise Fort

Denise Fort has an extensive background in environmental and natural resources law - about 25 years of practice, politics, reflecting and writing about policies, all…
University of New Mexico
University of New Hampshire
University of New Hampshire

Barrett Rock

Dr. Rock's research and publications have focused on remote sensing of vegetation, specifically on basic and applied research dealing with biophysical properties (pigment concentrations, anatomical…
University of New Hampshire

Karlheinz Erb

Trained as ecologist/biologist working for more about decades in the interdisciplinary field of social ecology, and holding a position as an associate professor for land…
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg

Florian Zabel

Physical geographer interested in crop modeling, climate change impacts on agriculture, land-use modeling, adaptation, and mitigation in agriculture with a focus on interlinkages between ecology…
University of Munich (LMU), Germany

Julia Pongratz

Julia Pongratz is a full professor for Physical Geography and Land Use Systems at the LMU Munich and leader of the Joint Group "Land Use…
University of Munich (LMU), Germany

Cory Cleveland

Cory C. Cleveland received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She served as an Assistant Professor at the University…
University of Montana
University of Montana

Margaret B. Davis

Dr Davis's research interests include Quaternary paleoecology; history of forest communities; past changes in geographical distributions of forest species; effects of soil development on terrestrial…
University of Minnesota
University of Michigan

Michael Craig

Michael researches how to reduce global and local environmental impacts of energy systems while making those systems robust to future climate impacts. He conducts system-level…
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
University of Michigan

Scott Kalafatis

Scott Kalafatis is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan studying the political economy of climate change policy in cities throughout the Great Lakes…
University of Michigan
University of Michigan

Thomas Princen

Thomas Princen explores issues of social and ecological sustainability at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. He works on…
University of Michigan
University of Michigan

Maria Carmen Lemos

Maria Carmen Lemos is Professor of Natural Resources and Environment and co-director of the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center at the University of…
University of Michigan

Jonathan T. Overpeck

Jonathan Overpeck's specialty areas are: a) climate dynamics, including paleoclimatology; b) climate and ecosystem interaction; and c) climate assessment and decision-support. Overpeck is the Director…
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
University of Michigan

Richard Rockwell

Dr. Rockwell has pursued two tracks in his professional life: data archivist and sociologist. His career was punctuated by a thirteen-year stint as a program…
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
University of Michigan

Gayl D. Ness

Gayl's Main research interests include the 1) interactions of population, environment and economic development; 2) political and organizational aspects of development and population planning; 3)…
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
University of Michigan

John Vesecky

Professor John Vesecky's technical interests are in the areas of remote sensing of the ocean surface; ocean current measuring radar for coastal ecology and oceanography,…
University of Michigan

Robert H. Gray

Robert Gray's Areas of expertise include heavy metal, toxicology and toxicological pathology. His current interasts are in the area of subcellular effects related to global…
University of Michigan
University of Miami

Ben Kirtman

Professor Benjamin Kirtman received his BS in Applied Mathematics from the University of California-San Diego in 1987, and his MS and PhD in 1992 from…
University of Miami

David Karoly

David John Karoly (born 1955) is an Australian scientist and academic. Currently he is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working…
University of Melbourne

David Wegman

DAVID H. WEGMAN is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Adjunct Professor at the Harvard School…
University of Massachusetts, Lowell