Feb. 2, 2007
EDITORS NOTE: ATTENTION ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENCE WRITERS AND EDITORS
NEWS SOURCES: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE IPCC EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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Today the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release an executive summary of its report on global climate change. The Rutgers faculty and researchers listed below are available for comment on various aspects of global warming and climate change:
ANTHONY J. BROCCOLI is associate professor of environmental sciences at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), the renamed Cook College. His research focuses on climate modeling, particularly on the simulation of past climates and climate change, and the use of such simulations to evaluate the reliability of climate models. He is a contributor to the IPCC report.
Contact Broccoli at 732-932-9817 or at broccoli@envsci.rutgers.edu.
DAVID ROBINSON is chair of the Department of Geography in Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences and the New Jersey State Climatologist. His work is supported by the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station/SEBS. He studies world and regional climates and climate change. As a scholar, Robinson studies the interaction of snow cover with other climate elements. He is a contributor to the IPCC report.
Contact Robinson at 732-445-4741 or at drobins@rci.rutgers.edu.
JENNIFER FRANCIS is associate research professor in Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences. Francis uses satellite data to measure, analyze, and understand the various components of the energy budget of the polar regions, which are believed by scientists to be especially sensitive to climate change.
Francis works at the James J. Howard Marine Laboratory at Sandy Hook and can be reached at 732-708-1217 or at francis@imcs.rutgers.edu.
DALE HAIDVOGEL is professor of marine science at Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences. Haidvogel models large-scale ocean circulation and uses that model to conduct extended simulations of ocean currents and climate. He has also developed a coupled ice-ocean model of the Arctic Ocean.
Contact Haidvogel at 732-932-6555, ext. 256, or at dale@imcs.marine.rutgers.edu.
JAMES MILLER is professor of marine science at Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences. He studies climate change using climate modeling, remote sensing and other tools. Miller studies the hydrologic cycle and the role of the oceans in the climate system.
Contact Miller at 732-932-6555, ext. 545.
ALAN ROBOCK is professor of environmental science at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, the renamed Cook College. Robock studies climate global warming and the impacts of climate change on human activities in particular, how climate change will affect water resources in New Jersey. Robock has participated actively in all four IPCC assessments, as a contributing author to the first three reports and as a reviewer of all four reports. His invited attendance at an IPCC meeting on the sensitivity of the climate system two years ago influenced the final wording of the assessment.
Contact Robock at 732-881-1610 or at robock@envsci.rutgers.edu.
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