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Dr. John Abraham is an Associate Professor at the University of St. Thomas where he teaches courses in the thermal sciences, including heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and numerical simulation. His research is broad and includes turbulent fluid flow, energy production and distribution in the developing world, wind turbine design, oceanography, climate sensitivity, and design of medical devices. He has approximately 160 publications which include journal papers, conference presentations, books, and patents. In 2010, Dr. Abraham co-founded the Climate Science Rapid Response Team which he currently co-manages. This organization consists of approximately 150 of the world’s best climate scientists who work to improve communication between scientists and the larger public. Dr. Michael MacCracken is Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs with the Climate Institute in Washington DC. His current research interests include human-induced climate change and consequent impacts, climate engineering, and the beneficial effects of limiting emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse gases. He has also served as leader of climate change research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, first executive director of the interagency Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and then the National Assessment Coordination Office, president of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, and integration team member for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment. In addition, his legal declaration on standing was favorably cited by Supreme Court Justice Stevens in his April 2007 majority opinion in the important climate change case known as Massachusetts et al. versus EPA. His undergraduate degree is from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from the University of California Davis. Dr. George Woodwell founded the Woods Hole Research Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1985 and has served as Director, Director Emeritus, and Chief Scientist throughout his tenure there from 1985-2012. His research focus has involved the structure and function of natural communities and their role as segments of the biosphere. He has worked extensively in forests and estuaries in North America and has made well-known studies of the ecological effects of ionizing radiation and the circulation and effects of pesticides and other toxins. For many years he has studied the biotic interactions associated with the warming of the earth. He has published more than 300 papers in ecology and has contributed articles to Science, Scientific American, BioScience, Ecology and the Journal of Ecology, among many. He has written and edited books on the effects of nuclear war, the global carbon cycle, biotic impoverishment, and satellite imagery used in measuring the area of forests globally. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is recipient of the 1996 Heinz Environmental Prize, the John H. Chafee Excellence in Environmental Affairs Award of 2000, and the Volvo Environment Prize of 2001.
Dr. John Abraham is an Associate Professor at the University of St. Thomas where he teaches courses in the thermal sciences, including heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and numerical simulation. His research is broad and includes turbulent fluid flow, energy production and distribution in the developing world, wind turbine design, oceanography, climate sensitivity, and design of medical devices. He has approximately 160 publications which include journal papers, conference presentations, books, and patents. In 2010, Dr. Abraham co-founded the Climate Science Rapid Response Team which he currently co-manages. This organization consists of approximately 150 of the world’s best climate scientists who work to improve communication between scientists and the larger public. Dr. Michael MacCracken is Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs with the Climate Institute in Washington DC. His current research interests include human-induced climate change and consequent impacts, climate engineering, and the beneficial effects of limiting emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse gases. He has also served as leader of climate change research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, first executive director of the interagency Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and then the National Assessment Coordination Office, president of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, and integration team member for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment. In addition, his legal declaration on standing was favorably cited by Supreme Court Justice Stevens in his April 2007 majority opinion in the important climate change case known as Massachusetts et al. versus EPA. His undergraduate degree is from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from the University of California Davis. Dr. George Woodwell founded the Woods Hole Research Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1985 and has served as Director, Director Emeritus, and Chief Scientist throughout his tenure there from 1985-2012. His research focus has involved the structure and function of natural communities and their role as segments of the biosphere. He has worked extensively in forests and estuaries in North America and has made well-known studies of the ecological effects of ionizing radiation and the circulation and effects of pesticides and other toxins. For many years he has studied the biotic interactions associated with the warming of the earth. He has published more than 300 papers in ecology and has contributed articles to Science, Scientific American, BioScience, Ecology and the Journal of Ecology, among many. He has written and edited books on the effects of nuclear war, the global carbon cycle, biotic impoverishment, and satellite imagery used in measuring the area of forests globally. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is recipient of the 1996 Heinz Environmental Prize, the John H. Chafee Excellence in Environmental Affairs Award of 2000, and the Volvo Environment Prize of 2001.
Dr. John Abraham is an Associate Professor at the University of St. Thomas where he teaches courses in the thermal sciences, including heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and numerical simulation. His research is broad and includes turbulent fluid flow, energy production and distribution in the developing world, wind turbine design, oceanography, climate sensitivity, and design of medical devices. He has approximately 160 publications which include journal papers, conference presentations, books, and patents. In 2010, Dr. Abraham co-founded the Climate Science Rapid Response Team which he currently co-manages. This organization consists of approximately 150 of the world’s best climate scientists who work to improve communication between scientists and the larger public. Dr. Michael MacCracken is Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs with the Climate Institute in Washington DC. His current research interests include human-induced climate change and consequent impacts, climate engineering, and the beneficial effects of limiting emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse gases. He has also served as leader of climate change research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, first executive director of the interagency Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and then the National Assessment Coordination Office, president of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, and integration team member for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment. In addition, his legal declaration on standing was favorably cited by Supreme Court Justice Stevens in his April 2007 majority opinion in the important climate change case known as Massachusetts et al. versus EPA. His undergraduate degree is from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from the University of California Davis. Dr. George Woodwell founded the Woods Hole Research Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1985 and has served as Director, Director Emeritus, and Chief Scientist throughout his tenure there from 1985-2012. His research focus has involved the structure and function of natural communities and their role as segments of the biosphere. He has worked extensively in forests and estuaries in North America and has made well-known studies of the ecological effects of ionizing radiation and the circulation and effects of pesticides and other toxins. For many years he has studied the biotic interactions associated with the warming of the earth. He has published more than 300 papers in ecology and has contributed articles to Science, Scientific American, BioScience, Ecology and the Journal of Ecology, among many. He has written and edited books on the effects of nuclear war, the global carbon cycle, biotic impoverishment, and satellite imagery used in measuring the area of forests globally. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is recipient of the 1996 Heinz Environmental Prize, the John H. Chafee Excellence in Environmental Affairs Award of 2000, and the Volvo Environment Prize of 2001.
