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Natalia Andronova is a research scientist
in the Climate Research Group of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests
are broadly defined, but center around the fields of global and regional
climate change, interactions between climate and the chemical composition
of atmosphere, feedbacks in the climate/chemistry system, and the response
of the climate/chemistry system to different radiative forcings, both
of natural and anthropogenic origin. Her education covers a large area
of science, starting from mathematics (B.S., Leningrad State University,
Russia), fluid mechanics (M.S. Leningrad State University, Russia), and
meteorology and geophysics (Ph.D., Main Geophysical Observatory, Russia).
Her achievements are the development of a systems approach to study the
complicated climate/chemistry system under anthropogenic pressure; in
extending the method of Cause and Effect Analysis (CEA) to analyze geophysical
phenomena's feedbacks, sensitivity and stability; in estimation of the
role of different factors in climate change using both simple climate
models and more complicated models of the Earth system.
David Baker is manager of Planning and Analysis
for the Office of Realty and Environmental Planning at the Illinois Department
of Natural Resources. He has been with the Department since 1980. Mr.
Baker received a Master's Degree in Urban Planning and Policy from the
University of Illinois, Chicago, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Loyola
University. At the DNR he directs the Critical Trends Assessment Program
(CTAP), a ten-year old program designed to monitor, evaluate and report
on trends in the state's ecosystems. He provided staffing and analysis
for the Illinois Task Force on Global Climate Change from 1992-2000. He
currently participates in several national level advisory groups on climate
issues, including the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Braintrust, State
Roundtable on Global Climate Change, and State GHG Registry Collaborative.
John Braden is a professor of environmental
economics in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, the
director of the Environmental Council, and an affiliate in the Institute
for Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois. Dr. Braden's
recent research focuses on river management and environmental restoration.
Klaus Conrad is a professor of economics
at the University of Mannheim, Germany. His research has focused on the
role of international policy coordination for carbon abatement in the
European Union, the costs of climate protection, and the role of technological
change in increasing energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions.
Kieran Donaghy is an associate professor
in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, where he teaches courses
in planning theory and methods, and is the director of the Illinois European
Union Center. He is also a senior research scientist at the National Center
for Supercomputing Applications, is affiliated with the graduate program
in Environmental and Resource Economics, and is the executive director
of the Regional Science Association International. Dr. Donaghy's recent
research has concerned regional impacts of climate change, coordination
of macroeconomic and environmental policies in the European Union, and
solution and econometric estimation of models of intertemporally and interspatially
optimizing agents.
James A. Edmonds is senior staff scientist
and the technical leader of economic programs at the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory, Richmond, Washington. He has developed programs in
the area of global change and sustainable development, developed computer
models to describe interactions between energy, technology, policy and
the environment, including the Edmonds-Reilly-Barns model, MiniCAM, and
Second Generation Model. He has written several books on the subject of
global change, including Global Energy Assessing the Future, with
John Reilly (Oxford University Press). His book with Professor Donald
Wuebbles, A Primer on Greenhouse Gases, won the scientific book
of the year award at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has
been a lead author on several chapters of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change First and Second Assessment Reports. In 1997, Dr. Edmonds
received the Exceptional Service Award from the U.S. Department of Energy,
Office of Science.
Atul K. Jain is an associate professor in the
Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois. His
research is aimed at development and use of the Integrated Science Assessment
models to investigate the impact of various greenhouse gases on the Earth's
climate, the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning,
the role of the oceans in transient climate change, and the sensitivity
of the climate to changes in greenhouse gases. He has served as a lead
and contributing author for major assessments of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change. He is the author of over 60 scientific articles
relating to global climate change as affected by both human activities
and natural phenomena.
Madhu Khanna is an associate professor of
agricultural and consumer economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
She teaches courses in environmental economics and international trade.
She is the coordinator of the program of Environmental and Resource Economics,
a member of the Environmental Council and an affiliate of the Institute
for Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois. She is
also an associate editor for the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.
Her research focuses on environmental policy and clean technology adoption
for environmental protection. In particular, her work examines the effectiveness
of voluntary programs and information disclosure for reducing toxic releases,
analyzes alternative market based instruments for abatement of carbon
emissions by increasing energy efficiency, and the design of green payment
policies for preventing non-point pollution from crop production.
Haroon S. Kheshgi is leader of the Global
Climate Change Science Program with ExxonMobil's Corporate Strategic Research.
His current research addresses carbon cycle, atmospheric chemistry, emissions
mitigation and detection of climate change. He was a lead author of the
Carbon Cycle chapter in the IPCC's Third Assessment Report on the Scientific
Basis for Climate Change, a lead author of the Global Perspectives chapter
of the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Special Report, and a contributor
on the topics of Detection and Attribution of Climate Change and Geoengineering
of Climate. He currently serves as a vice-chair of the International Petroleum
Industry Environmental Conservation Association's Climate Change Working
Group.
Surender Kumar is a visiting scholar in environmental
economics at the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at
the University of Illinois under the World Bank Aided Environmental Management
Capacity Building Project in India, a lecturer in economics at Arya College
Panipat (India) and a research consultant at the Institute of Economic
Growth, Delhi. His research interests include the applications of the
theory of distance functions and DEA techniques in the environmental economics.
His research analyzes the costs and benefits of environmental policy in
thermal power sector in India and environmental and economic accounting
for Indian industry.
S. P. Long is the Robert Emerson Professor
in Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois. Previous
appointments have included the University of Essex in the UK, Brookhaven
National Laboratory, the Smithsonian Institution and the University of
Vienna. His research focuses on the direct effects, and mechanisms of
effect, of atmospheric change on vegetation and ecosystems, and on novel
low input crops as biomass energy sources. He is lead PI to the SoyFACE
project; a unique open-air laboratory investigating the impacts of rising
carbon dioxide and tropospheric ozone on crop systems of the Midwest,
involving over 20 faculty from a range of UIUC departments and institutions
across the U.S. and Europe. He was named in 2002 as one of the 25 most
cited authors on global warming by the publishers of Science Citation
Index and is chief editor of the journal Global Change Biology.
He has been a contributing author and referee for the IPCC's Assessment
Reports of the Scientific Basis for Climate Change, and has served on
various committees for research on global climate change for the European
Union Cooperation in Science and Technology initiatives, the United Nations
Environment Program, the UK Natural Environment Research Council, and
the U.S. Department of Energy.
Robert Mendelsohn is a resource economist
who specializes in valuing the environment. Dr. Mendelsohn received his
B.A. from Harvard where he graduated magna cum laude in 1973. He then
received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1978 and has taught
at the University of Washington, the University of Michigan, and for the
last 14 years at Yale University where he is now the Edwin Weyerhaeuser
Davis Professor in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Dr.
Mendelsohn began his research career with a dissertation estimating the
damage of air pollution emissions from fossil fuel plants using an integrated
assessment model. Dr. Mendelsohn went on to develop methods to value local
hazardous waste pollution, local wildlife populations, recreation areas,
oil spills, and non-timber products from tropical forests. Over the last
eight years, Dr. Mendelsohn has been involved in measuring the impacts
from climate change. Together with Dr. Nordhaus and Dr. Shaw, they have
invented the Ricardian technique, a cross-sectional analysis that reveals
the climate sensitivity of agriculture. This method has been applied to
the United States as well as India and Brazil. With Dr. Sohngen, an ecological
model of forests was combined with a dynamic economic model of the economy
to predict a path of timber effects from climate change. With Dr. Morrison,
cross-sectional information from households and firms was used to measure
the impacts of climate change on energy. With James Neumann, Dr. Mendelsohn
led a consortium of leading impact researchers on a complete study of
the effect of climate change on the United States economy. With Dr. Schlesinger,
Dr. Mendelsohn has recently calculated climate response functions. Combining
these response functions with country sectoral data, a new global impact
model, GIM, has been created. This model has recently been combined with
a host of climate models to predict country-specific forecasts of impacts
by market sector around the globe.
Jyoti Parikh is senior professor at Indira
Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India. Her current work
interests include climate change, global emissions, poverty and environment,
energy systems modeling, power system and demand side management, environmental
economics, applications to air and water pollution, land and forests,
and biodiversity. Additionally, she serves as a member of the Scientific
and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility
(GEF); as national project coordinator of Capacity 21 for Capacity Building
for Introduction of Environmental Economics into Decision Making for Sustainable
Development project; and as chairperson of the Environmental Economics
Research Committee for the World Bank project on India's nation-wide capacity
building for environmental management.
Stef Proost is a professor at the Catholic
University of Leuven, Belgium. He teaches environmental economics, energy
economics, and transport economics. He heads a research group of 20 researchers
in the Department of Economics that deals with environment, energy, and
transport topics. He is also member of the board of the Energy Institute
of the university. His research focuses on using partial and general equilibrium
models to address public policy questions: optimal pricing of transport,
choice of policy instruments for environmental policy, and energy pricing
questions. He has participated in and coordinated several European research
consortia (TRENEN-II, GEM-E3, PRIMES, MARKAL, CAPRI, AUTO-OIL 2, UNITE).
He has also participated in transatlantic U.S.-Europe research networks
on environmental policy and sustainable transportation with the University
of Illinois, in particular.
Adam Rose is the head and a professor of mineral
economics in the Department of Earth and Engineering Sciences at Pennsylvania
State University. His research focuses on analyzing the long run implications
of global warming policy, of joint implementation agreements between developed
and developing countries, and on the equity effects of environmental policies
to combat global warming.
Clifford E. Singer is the director of the
Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security at the
University of Illinois. He received a Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University
of California, Berkeley and was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral
Fellow at MIT. He subsequently did research in plasma physics, advanced
space propulsion, and the computational simulation of thermonuclear plasma
performance at the University of London, Princeton University, and the
University of Illinois. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the
Max Planck Institutes for Strömungsforschung and Plasmaphysik at
Göttingen and Garching in Germany and is a member of American Physical
Society. His research interests include plutonium production and reprocessing
in South Asia and arms control in India, Pakistan, and China. He is currently
supervising research on global energy economics with emphasis on plutonium
production and reprocessing in South Asia and on prospects for negotiations
on greenhouse gas emissions between China and India. He developed the
course, Nuc Eng 390A, "Civilian and Military Uses of Nuclear Energy"
and teaches interdisciplinary courses in nuclear engineering and international
security. He recently completed a sabbatical leave in Vienna doing research
on global and regional uranium resources for presentation to the International
Atomic Energy Agency and international consultations on the future of
nuclear explosives holdings.
Michelle Wander is an associate professor
of soil science in the University of Illinois' Department of Natural Resources
and Environmental Sciences where she teaches courses on soil organic matter,
soil ecology, nutrient cycling and decomposition. She served as the chair
of the NCR-59 Committee on Soil Organic Matter and Biochemistry in 1998
and is working with the Union of Concerned Scientists/Ecological Society
of America Committee to author the report "Ecological Impacts of
Climate Change in the U.S. Great Lakes Region." She is also on the
editorial committee of the Soil Science Society of America's Special Publication,
"Soil Carbon Management Guide" and the Ad Hoc Committee on Global
Enhancement of Soil Organic Matter. She is presently serving as a technical
editor for the Soil Science Society of America Journal, Division
S-6. Ongoing projects include a multi-site study to identify physical
and biological controls over soil respiration, below ground aspects of
the SoyFACE project, an investigation of BT-toxin persistence in soils,
a comparison of soil organic matter in organically and conventionally
managed soils obtained from long-term trials, and an interdisciplinary
planning project to cultivate research related to Opportunities in Energy
and Agriculture.
Donald J. Wuebbles is the head of the Department
of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois and professor in
that department as well as in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering. His research emphasizes the development and use of mathematical
models of the atmosphere to study the chemical and physical processes
that determine atmospheric structure. He is the author of over 300 scientific
articles, most of which relate to the impacts that man-made and natural
trace gases may be having on the Earth's climate and on tropospheric and
stratospheric chemistry, with emphasis on concerns about global ozone.
He has been a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
assessments of the concerns about climate change and serves on the International
Ozone Commission. He has led to the development of several new research
centers at the University of Illinois, including a center on the regional
impacts of climate change on the Midwest.
David Zilberman is a professor in the
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of
California at Berkeley. His research interests include agricultural and
nutrition policy; economics of technological change; economics of natural
resources; and microeconomic theory.
January 5, 2004
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