Impact of Climate Change:
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Over 800 colleges and universities, K-12 schools, civic organizations and religious groups are participating in Focus the Nation, potentially the largest simultaneous teach-in in history. (READ MORE) |
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"I
am excited by the diversity of actions because it projects
our commitment to the environment. To those who have led these
initiatives, I applaud you and encourage others to follow your
lead.". |
[President Mote, April
27, 2007] |
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| News: "UM Picked in Top 15 Colleges and
Universities"
(August 10, 2007) |
| http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/uniini/release.cfm?ArticleID=1479 |
| The University of Maryland
has been named one of the Top 15 Green Colleges and Universities
by Grist, an online environmental magazine based in Seattle.
The only state flagship university on the list that also includes
schools in other countries, Maryland was lauded for student willingness
to raise fees to pay for clean energy and other energy conserving
measures. |
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| News: "UM Commits to 'Climate Neutral' Campus President
C. Dan Mote Takes a Leadership Role in Global Warming Fight"
UM News, (March 22, 2007) |
| http://www.umd.edu/umnews/acupcc.html |
| College Park, MD - University of Maryland President C. Dan Mote,
Jr. committed this week to sharply reducing the university's
impact on its global warming emissions, and accelerating research
and educational efforts to equip society to reduce human impact
on the earth's environment. The pledge came with Mote's signing
of the American College & University
Presidents Climate Commitment, joining the leaders of more than
284 institutions across the country. |
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| Presidents Climate Commitment |
| http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org |
| The American College & University
Presidents Climate Commitment is a high-visibility effort to
address global warming by garnering institutional commitments
to neutralize greenhouse gas emissions, and to accelerate the
research and educational efforts of higher education to equip
society to re-stabilize the earth’s climate. (Web
Description) |
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| UM Campus Sustainability |
| http://www.sustainability.umd.edu/ |
| Environmental stewardship
is deeply rooted in the beliefs and behaviors of individuals – faculty,
administrators, staff, and students – who continuously
do their part to reduce the ecological footprint of the University.
Students have outstanding opportunities through coursework, research,
and community involvement to learn about and address the challenges
facing our local and global ecosystems. Researchers in various
centers housed on campus concentrate on applying cutting edge
technology to find solutions to environmental problems of all
scales. Some staff and administrators are working hard to green
their departments by reducing material consumption, increasing
recycling rates, reducing energy use, and encouraging other responsible
behaviors. |
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| Climate Change: Salzburg Academy for Media & Global
Change |
| http://www.salzburg.umd.edu/climatechange/ |
| ICMPA, the College of Journalism
and the University of Maryland are partnering with the Salzburg
Seminar to establish the “Salzburg Academy Program on Media
and Global Change.” Summer 2007 will be the pilot year
for the program. The 3-week summer session will bring together
a global faculty and 60 undergraduates and graduates to live
and study in residence in Austria. Two courses will be offered
for credit. The intent of the program is to encourage cross-cultural
thinking about the roles media play in global affairs and policy,
to help students and faculty appreciate distinctive international
media and policy models, to consider and initiate norms regarding
media’s role in promoting global awareness and understanding,
and to assist universities in developing curricular tools and
cross-regional case studies for media, public policy and other
related courses that are otherwise unavailable or would be prohibitively
expensive to generate for a single institution. |
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| Campus Climate Challenge |
| http://www.marypirgstudents.org |
The Campus Climate Challenge
is a project of the MaryPIRG student chapter at UMCP. MaryPIRG
is the statewide public interest group that trains students to
become leaders on campus and in the community. Students work
on public interest issues ranging from the environment to higher
education and hunger and homelessness.
Regular Meetings: 3110 South Campus Dining Hall, Thursdays
@ 5PM
Target: University planning board.
Goal: to convince the University to
purchase 100% wind energy
Maryland PIRG
3110 South Campus Dining Hall,
Univ. of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 314-8353
info@marylandpirgstudents.org |
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Experts on Climate Change Science, Impacts and Responses |
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The University of Maryland is a national leader in research to
understand global climate change (commonly called global warming),
its impacts and the scientific, technological, economic and public
policy challenges it poses for humanity. Over the past decade,
the university has built on its long tradition of excellence
in atmospheric, climate, biological, and earth science to develop
major new partnerships with federal agencies in the areas of
earth science, remote imaging, climate change and energy research.
Among the most central of these partnerships are the university's Earth
System Science Interdisciplinary Center (joint with NASA), Joint
Global Change Research Institute (joint with the Department
of Energy), Cooperative
Institute for Climate Studies (joint with the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA) and Center
for Integrative Environmental Research.
University of Maryland experts involved in Climate Change related
research and policy analysis are available to offer perspectives,
insight and information. |
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Phillip A. Arkin |
| Director of the Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies and Deputy Director of ESSIC |
| Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center |
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Expertise Key Words:
earth science, climate change (popularly called global warming), precipitation (rain, snow, etc.), and how precipitation responds to and affects various aspects of the Earth System |
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Expertise Credentials:
Phil Arkin is director of the Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies and deputy director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, a joint center of University of Maryland and NASA Goddard that is based at the university. Arkin and the center's many other researchers are working to develop the scientific understanding and computer models necessary to answer key questions about climate change, including how the warming of the planet will affect specific regions of the globe. Arkins research focuses on observation and analysis of precipitation (rain and snow), including how precipitation responds to and affects various aspects of the Earth System. Prior to becoming a University of Maryland scientist, Arkin worked as a research scientist and manager at NOAA for more then 20 years. He has a doctorate in meteorology from the University of Maryland. |
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 2147 |
parkin@essic.umd.edu
parkin@umd.edu |
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Address:
2203 Computer & Space Sciences Building
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Degrees:
Ph.D., Meteorology, University of Maryland |
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Antonio
J. Busalacchi |
| Director |
| Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center |
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Expertise Key Words:
Climate Variability and change. Global change, Role of tropical ocean circulation in the coupled climate system, climate change, El Nino, La Nina, numerical modeling of climate change. Environmental modelling. Earth remote sensing. |
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Expertise Credentials:
Antonio Busalacchi chairs the National Academies' Climate Research Committee and directs the University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, which is a collaboration between the University of Maryland, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and NOAA NCEP and NESDIS. Busalacchi is also a Professor in the Department of Meteorology. The Climate Research Committee chaired by Busalacchi has released a four-page background paper on abrupt climate change.He also co-chairs the Scientific Steering Group for the World Climate Research Programme on Climate Variability and Predictability. |
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Web Site(s):
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center |
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 5599 |
tonyb@essic.umd.edu |
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Address:
2207 Computer & Space Sciences Bldg
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Degrees:
Ph.D., Oceanography, Florida State University
MS, Oceanography, Florida State
B.S., Physics, Florida State |
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Ruth S. Defries |
| Professor |
| Geography |
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Expertise Key Words:
Land use change; deforestation; uses remote imaging or satellite data combined with field work. Land use change impacts on climate, biodiversity, water quality, Earth's habitability. the carbon cycle and climate change, which is commonly called gobal warming. |
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Expertise Credentials:
A member of the National Academy of Science, Defries a joint appointment in the department of geography and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center.
DeFries is co-author, with Cheryl Simon Silver, of One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment , published in 1990. In 2004, she edited the book Ecosystem and Land Use Change, published by the American Geophysical Union. DeFries co-teaches the undergraduate course "Cause and Implications of Global Change," which integrates physical, chemical, geological and biological sciences with geographical, economic, sociological and political knowledge. She also teaches upper level undergraduate and graduate classes.
DeFries researches deforestation and other changes that humans are making to the Earth's land surface. Using data from satellites and field work, DeFries studies how these changes affect climate, biodiversity, water quality and other factors that determine the Earth's habitability.
Previously, Dr. DeFries worked at the National Research Council with the Committee on Global Change and taught at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay. She is a fellow of the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program. |
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Web Site(s):
DeFries' Geography web page
Web article: "A Conversation with UM's Ruth DeFries,
Newly Elected to the National Academy of Sciences |
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 4884 |
rdefries@umd.edu |
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Address:
1127 Le Frak Hall
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Degrees:
B.A., Earth Science, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Ph.D., Geography, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD |
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Russell R. Dickerson |
| Professor & Chair |
| Atmospheric & Oceanic Science |
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Expertise Key Words:
Air Pollution, Atmospheric Chemistry, Air Quality, Global Biogeochemical Cycles(including their relevance to climate change), Ammonia |
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Expertise Credentials:
Research in air quality in USA, China, and India |
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Web Site(s):
Homepage
Air pollution research release |
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 5391 |
rrd@umd.edu |
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Address:
3413 Computer & Space Sciences Bldg
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Degrees:
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Michigan (1980) |
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James J. Dooley |
| Senior Staff Engineer V |
| Joint Global Change Research Institute |
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Expertise Key Words:
climate change; carbon capture and disposa; the interplay between R&D investments, climate change related technology development and economics |
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Expertise Credentials:
Jim Dooley leads the Joint Global Change Research Institute and the Global Energy Technology Strategy Project's research related to carbon capture and disposal and the role of this class of technologies in addressing climate change. The Joint Global Change Research Institute is a collaboration between the University of Maryland and the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The institute is located on Maryland's College Park campus.
Dooley is also a senior member of the Joint Global Change Research Institute's Integrated Assessment global climate modeling team and in this capacity has principally been focused on the interplay between R&D investments, climate change related technology development and economics. He is also in charge of developing Battelle's private sector businesses relating to carbon management. Dooley is the co-developer of a state-of- the-art geographic information based model for examining the large-scale deployment of carbon management technologies in the United States. |
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Web Site(s):
Dooley's JGCRI Web page |
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 314-6766 |
jj.dooley@pnl.gov |
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Address:
8400 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 201
College Park, MD 20740-2496 |
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James A. Edmonds |
| Senior Staff Scientist and Technical Leader of Economic Programs |
| Joint Global Change Research Institute |
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Expertise Key Words:
economic and policy issues of global change, climate change and sustainable development, technological strategies for stabilizing greenhouse gases and promoting practical ways to promote both economic growth and environmental quality |
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Expertise Credentials:
Jae Edmonds is a Senior Staff Scientist and Technical Leader of Economic Programs at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between the University of Maryland and the Department of Energys Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The institute is located on Marylands College Park campus. Dr. Edmonds heads an international global change research program at PNNL with active collaborations in more than a dozen institutions and countries around the world. He is the principal investigator for the Global Energy Technology Strategy Program to Address Climate Change, an international public-private research collaboration.
Dr. Edmonds is well known for his contributions to the field of the integrated assessment of climate change and the examination of interactions between energy, technology, policy and the environment. He has expounded extensively on the subject of global change including books, papers, and presentations. His publications include, Global Energy Assessing the Future, with John Reilly (Oxford University Press) and A Primer on Greenhouse Gases (Lewis Publishing and scientific book of the year at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). He has served as a Lead Author for all three major assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and numerous interim assessment reports. He has frequently testified before Congress and briefed the Executive Branch of the United States Government including the Vice President of the United States and the Cabinet of the President of the United States, and has prepared and conducted numerous briefings and lectures to a wide range of audiences. |
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Web Site(s):
Edmunds' JGCRI web page |
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 314-6749 |
jae@pnl.gov |
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Address:
8400 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 201
College Park,, MD 20740-24 |
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Steve Fetter |
| Professor |
| School of Public Policy |
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Expertise Key Words:
nuclear arms control; nuclear nonproliferation; ballistic missile defense; nuclear energy and other carbon-free energy supply; climate change |
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Expertise Credentials:
SERVES ON: National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control, the Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee, the Department of Homeland Security's WMD Infrastructure Experts Team, the board of directors of the Sustainable Energy Institute and the Arms Control Association, the board of governors of the RAND Graduate School, the advisory board of Human Rights Watch's Arms Division, the University of Chicago's Advisory Committee on Nuclear Non-Proliferation, and the Board of Editors of Science and Global Security.
OTHER EXPERIENCE: Fetter served as special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (1993-94), and as an American Institute of Physics fellow (2004) and a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow (1992) at the State Department. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a recipient of its Joseph A. Burton Forum Award, and a member of its Panel on Public Affairs.
He has been a visiting fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs, MIT's Plasma Fusion Center, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has served as vice chairman of the Federation of American Scientists, and as associate director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute. |
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Web Site(s):
Homepage |
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
Home phone |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 6355 |
301 422 6857 |
sfetter@umd.edu |
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Address:
4103 Van Munching Hall
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Degrees:
PhD, Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley
SB, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Gerald E. Galloway |
| Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engr and and Affiliate Professor of Public Policy; Research Professor |
| Civil & Environmental Engineering; School of Public Policy |
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Expertise Key Words:
Water Resources Policy; Water Resources Management and Engineering; Integrated Water Resource Management; Floods; Flood Damage Reduction (Levees, Dams, Floodwalls); Flood Insurance; Infrastructure Security; impacts of climate change on flooding, drought and other water resource issues |
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Expertise Credentials:
Galloway has served as a consultant to the Executive Office of the President, the U.S. Water Resources Council, the World Bank, the Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other government and private organizations.
From 1988 to 1995, he served as a presidentially appointed member of the seven-person Mississippi River Commission. From December 1993 to July 1994 he was assigned to the White House to lead the Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee in assessing the causes of the 1993 Mississippi River floods and proposing a long-term approach to floodplain management.
From 1998-2003, he was the Executive Secretary and Chief US Advisor to the International Joint Commission (US-Canada) dealing with the Great Lakes and the other shared boundary waters of the two countries
He has chaired two National Water Policy Dialogues focused on developing a long-term national approach to water use in the United States. He has represented the US in post-Katrina discussions with the Netherlands, Japan and other countries on Flood Damage Reduction; He also was a member of the US team to the 2006 Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City. In May of 2007 Galloway testified before the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure at a hearing titled "Climate Change & Energy Independence: Transportation & Infrastructure Issues."
Dr. Galloway is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. |
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Web Site(s):
Home Page
Written testimony made on 5/17/07 before the
House Committee - Climate
Change & Energy Independence:
Transportation & Infrastructure
Issues |
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
Home phone |
Cell phone |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 1341 |
703-979-5253 |
571-334-2103 |
gegallo@umd.edu
river57@comcast.net |
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Address:
1173 Glenn L Martin Hall
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Degrees:
Ph.D.; MSE; MPA; BS, Water Resources Geography;Civil
Engineering; Public Administration; General Engineering,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;Princeton;
Penn State' US Military Academy |
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David W. Inouye |
| Professor |
| Biology |
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Expertise Key Words:
Conservation biology; Plant population biology; Pollination biology; Climate change; Bees, hummingbirds, bumblebees; Biodiversity, Phenology |
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Expertise Credentials:
Dr. Inouye has worked in Australia, Austria, Central America, and Colorado, where he has spent summer field seasons since 1971 at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL). His long-term studies of flowering phenology and plant demography are being used now to provide insights into the effects of climate change at high altitudes.
Co-author, Techniques for Pollination Biologists; Director, graduate program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology; Member, National Research Council committee on Status of Pollinators: Monitoring and Preventing their Decline; National Science Foundation grant funding |
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Web Site(s):
Homepage
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory |
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
Home phone |
Cell phone |
E-mail(s) |
301 405 6946
summer: 970-349-5801 |
301-422-8926 |
none |
inouye@umd.edu |
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Address:
4206 Biology-Psychology Building
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Degrees:
Ph.D., Biology, Univ. of NC |
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Gregory S. Jackson |
| Assoc Professor |
| Mechanical Engineering |
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Expertise Key Words:
Combustion behavior, gas turbines, fuel cells (fast-response H2 production from hydrocarbons, integrated fuel cell and gas turbine power plants), catalytic reactors (catalytic combustion, hydrogen generators, computational modeling), meso-scale power production, thermoelectric waste heat recovery |
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Web Site(s):
Reacting
Flow Lab website |
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 2368 |
gsjackso@umd.edu |
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Address:
4164E Martin Hall
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Degrees:
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University |
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Anthony C. Janetos |
| Director, Joint Global Change Research Institute |
| Joint Global Change Research Institute |
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Expertise Key Words:
environmental science, climate change (commonly called global warming), biodiversity, land-cover and land-use change, satellite imaging, terrestrial ecosystems |
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Expertise Credentials:
Dr. Janetos previously served as vice president of the H. John
Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
in Washington, D.C., where he directed the center's Global
Change Program. He has written and spoken widely to policy,
business, and scientific audiences on the need for scientific
input and scientific assessment in the policymaking process
and about the need to understand the scientific, environmental,
economic, and policy linkages among the major global environmental
issues. Climate change and other global environmental changes
remain among the most serious and difficult environmental
issues, Janetos noted recently. The consequences of global
change are far-reaching, ranging from impacts on agriculture
and ecosystems to potential concerns for human health and
long-term sustainable development. Strategies for addressing
global change involve technological and economic choices
that will themselves affect societies for decades. The technological,
scientific, and economic research questions raised by different
strategies to deal with the causes and consequences of global
change are the foundation for the work of the Joint Global
Change Research Institute. Dr. Janetos has served on several
national and international study teams, including working
as a co-chair of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential
Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. He also was
an author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes
Special Report on Land-Use Change and Forestry, the Global
Biodiversity Assessment, and a coordinating lead author in
the recently published Millennium Ecosystem Assessment .
He currently serves as a member of the National Research
Council's Committee on Earth Science and Applications from
Space. Dr. Janetos graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
College with a bachelor's degree in biology and earned a
master's degree and a Ph.D. in biology from Princeton University. |
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Web Site(s):
Janetos joins JGCRI - News Release
Janetos' JGCRI
web page |
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 314 7843 |
anthony.janetos@pnl.gov |
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Address:
8400 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 201
College Park, MD 20740 |
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Degrees:
B.S., Biology, Harvard College
M.S., Biology, Princeton
Ph.D., Biology, Princeton |
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Eugenia E. Kalnay |
| Distinguished University Professor |
| Meteorology |
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Expertise Key Words:
Numerical Weather Forecasting; Atmospheric Predictability and ensemble forecasting; Use of satellite observations; Data assimilation; Seasonal and Interannual prediction; Land-use change impact on climate warming; |
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Expertise Credentials:
Hurricanes: The role of short and longer term climate changes on severe weather.
Former Director of the National Weather Service Environmental Modeling Center (at NCEP). Director of the NCEP-NCAR 50-year Reanalysis described in Kalnay et al (1996), the most cited paper in the geoscienes in the last decade. Author of the book "Atmopheric modeling, data assimilation and predictability" (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and about 100 peer-reviewed papers. Architect of the NASA Fourth Order Global model. Co-author of the Breeding method for ensemble forecasting used in many operational centers. |
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Web Site(s):
Eugenia Kalnay Homepage
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
Cell phone |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 5370 |
none |
ekalnay@umd.edu |
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Address:
3431 Computer & Space Sciences Bldg
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Degrees:
Ph.D. (1971), Meteorology, MIT
Licenciate (1965), Meteorology, University of Buenos Aires |
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Eric S. Kasischke |
| Professor, Affiliate Professor |
| Geography |
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Expertise Key Words:
assessing impacts of fire and disturbance on boreal forest ecosystem processes, carbon cycling in boreal forests, monitoring boreal forests with satellite-based remote sensing systems and monitoring terrestrial ecosystems with imaging radar systems, climate change impacts |
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Expertise Credentials:
Dr. Kasischke's research interests focus on two areas: (1) understanding how fire and the climate interact to influence ecosystem processes and carbon cycling in the world's boreal forests; and (2) developing approaches to use spaceborne imaging synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to monitor spatial and temporal characteristics of the earth's land surface. In carrying out this research, he conducts inter-disciplinary research with ecologists, atmospheric scientists, carbon cycle modelers and scientists interested in using remote sensing to observe the effects of fire throughout the boreal region, as well as changes in sea level in the Chesapeake Bay. Current research is focused in several areas. First, carrying out field-based research on patterns of fire severity and post-fire succession in Interior Alaska. Second, carrying out analyses of how to use satellite imagery to assess fire severity and post-fire soil moisture. Third, assessing the degree to which SAR imagery can be used to monitor the impacts of sea-level rise on coastal marsh vegetation. And fourth, developing approaches to integrate field and satellite observations to assess changes in terrestrial carbon cycling in the boreal region.
His current research projects include:
Wildfire consumption of ground-layer organic matter in N.A.boreal forests & peatlands: implications for atmospheric trace gas emissions & long-term soil carbon storage
Assessing the effects of sea level rise on the patterns of coastal flooding and the distribution and extent of wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay using Landsat and satellite radar imagery
The Dynamics of Change in Alaska's Boreal Forests: Resilience and Vulnerability in Response to Climate Warming |
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 2179 |
ekasisch@umd.edu |
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Address:
2181F LeFrak Hall
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Degrees:
PhD, Remote Sensing/Forest Ecology, University of Michigan
MS, Remote Sensing, University of Michigan
BS, Natural Resources, University of Michigan |
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Michael S. Kearney |
| Professor |
| Geography |
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Expertise Key Words:
Sea level rise; coastal marshes in the Chesapeake Bay; shore erosion; disappearing islands and land loss; sedimentation in the Bay; remote sensing; impacts of storms on storm surge processes; hurricanes; Rita and Galveston; climage change, commonly called global warming, and sea level rise. |
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Expertise Credentials:
Kearney is author or co-author of numerous papers, chapters and books on coastal ecology and sea-level rise, including: "Large scale decline of coastal marshes in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay, USA, determined from Landsat imagery" and "Sea Level Rise: History and Consequences." |
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Web Site(s):
Mike
Kearney's Homepage |
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 4057 |
mkearne2@umd.edu |
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Address:
1157 Le Frak Hall
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Degrees:
Ph.D., Geography, University of Western Ontario |
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Daniel B. Kirk-Davidoff |
| Asst Professor |
| Atmospheric & Oceanic Science |
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Expertise Key Words:
climate, climate change (popularly called global warming), clmate modeling, paleoclimate modeling; satellite climate monitoring, climate impact of very large scale wind farms, |
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Expertise Credentials:
Daniel Kirk-Davidoff is a climate dynamicist with interests in the stratospheric water vapor budget, paleoclimate modeling, satellite climate monitoring, and the use of satellite data to improve climate models. He uses two-dimensional climate models to explore the dynamical basis for such fundamental aspects of climate as the pole-to-equator temperature difference, and the mean tropopause height, and to generate and test hypotheses about the connections and feedbacks among tropospheric dynamics, stratospheric overturning, the stratospheric water vapor budget and polar stratospheric clouds. He analyses existing satellite data to test strategies for optimizing the orbits of climate-observing satellites, and to design tests of global climate models which are directly relevant to the models' predictions of the sensitivity of the earth's climate to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. Work that "should reduce our uncertainty about the consequences of our energy-use policies, allowing us to make choices with a clearer view of their consequences." |
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Web Site(s):
Kirk-Davidoff's deparment
web page |
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 5386 |
dankd@umd.edu |
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Address:
3423 Computer & Space Sciences Building
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Lewis "Ed" Link |
| Senior Fellow |
| Academy of Leadership |
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Expertise Key Words:
Army Corps of Engineers, infrastructure, geotechnical and structural
engineering, force protection and anti-terrorism, environmental
cleanup, ecosystems assessment and restoration, industrial process
compliance, information technology, knowledge management, leadership
development, and strategic planning. |
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Expertise Credentials:
Lewis "Ed" Link, Ph.D., recently retired from his post
as director of research and development and principal scientific
advisor to the chief of engineers at the U. S. Army Corps of
Engineers headquarters. Previously, Link was the director and
technical director for the U. S. Army Cold Regions Research and
Engineering Laboratory, where he worked on basic and applied
cold regions research in the broad areas of water resources,
geophysics, geochemistry, environment, civil engineering, and
geotechnical engineering. Link has also worked for a few different
divisions of the USAE Waterways Experiment Station and has taught
at Mississippi State University. Both scholastically and professionally,
Link has received numerous awards, including the Presidential
Rank Award for Distinguished Executive Senior Executive Service,
the highest award for senior executives in government, presented
by the President of the U.S., and the Department of the Army
Exceptional Civilian Service Award, the highest award for civilian
service in the government. |
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Web Site(s):
Link's academy
web page |
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| Contact Information: |
| Work phone(s) |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 1148 |
elink@academy.umd.edu |
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Address:
1159 Martin Hall
University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742-3021 |
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Degrees:
B.S. with high honors in geological engineering at North Carolina
State University in 1968, his M.S. in civil engineering at
Mississippi State University in 1973, and his Ph.D. in civil
engineering at Pennsylvania State University in 1976. He also
graduated from the Federal Executive Institute in 1985. |
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Elizabeth L. Malone |
| Staff Scientist IV |
| Joint Global Change Research Institute |
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Expertise Key Words:
science research in global change, global environmental change, globalization, economic development, equity, and sustainability, climate change |
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Expertise Credentials:
Elizabeth L. Malone's interests focus on policy-relevant social science research in global change issues, developing studies that integrate disparate worldviews, data sources, and scientific approaches. Her work has contributed to linkages among global environmental change, globalization, economic development, equity, and sustainability. Recently she has been working, with Antoinette Brenkert and Richard Moss, on developing structured methods for analyzing country, sector, and local vulnerabilities to climate change. Associated with that work she has been exploring approaches to scenarios of the future that integrate socioeconomic and environmental information.
Previously, she was the co-Principal Investigator for the PNNL team that developed the Guidelines and Sector-specific Issues and Reporting Methodologies for the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases under Section 1605(b) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (six sectors). She edited, with Steve Rayner, Human Choice and Climate Change, a four-volume assessment of social science research relevant to global climate change, jointly authoring, with Steve Rayner, the summary volume and an invited paper for Nature on the conclusions. She also has extensive experience in stakeholder involvement in environmental issues. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Maryland. |
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Web Site(s):
Malone's JGCRI Web page |
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E-mail(s) |
| 301 314 6755 |
e.malone@pnl.gov |
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Address:
8400 Baltimore Avenue
Suite 201
College Park, MD 20740-2496 |
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Degrees:
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Maryland |
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Margaret A. Palmer |
| Professor |
| Entomology and Biology |
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Expertise Key Words:
water quality;watersheds; aquatic biodiversity; stream and watershed restoration; global water issues; restoration ecology; land use change; urban environments |
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Expertise Credentials:
Palmer is the national lead PI for the National River Restoration Science Synthesis. She is leading a team of scientists investigating interactive effects of land use and climate change on Piedmont streams within the Chesapeake Bay drainage area. Palmer is also lead author of "Ecology for a Crowded Planet" which advocates shifting from a focus on undisturbed ecosystems to one that acknowledges humans as components of ecosystems. She has also served as editor of "Limnology & Oceanography" since 1996. She is on the Scientific Advisory Boards for the Center for Watershed Protection, American Rivers, the Grand Canyon Research Center (Colorado River Restoration). She has > 90 peer reviewed publications. |
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Web Site(s):
Palmer land use change and watershed web site
National River Restoration Science Synthesis
Margaret Palmer's web site |
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Home phone |
Cell phone |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 3795 |
410 798-8814 |
301 873-7256 |
mpalmer@umd.edu |
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Address:
4126 Plant Sciences Building
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Degrees:
PhD, Oceanography, Ecology, University of South Carolina |
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Reinhard K. Radermacher |
| Director, Center for Environmental Energy Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| Mechanical Engineering |
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Expertise Key Words:
Advanced Energy Conversion Systems; Cooling, Heating and Power (CHP) Systems; Optimization of Thermal Systems; Energy and the Environment; electrical power generation, distributed generators |
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Expertise Credentials:
Dr. Radermacher is an internationally recognized expert in heat transfer and working fluids for energy conversion systems, including heat pumps, air-conditioners, and refrigeration systems. His work has resulted in over 150 publications, as well as numerous invention records and eight patents. He has co-authored three books.
His research has ranged from environmentally safe refrigerants in residential air-conditioners and heat pumps to combined heating, cooling and power systems for buildings and campuses. He introduced ternary working fluid mixtures for absorption heat pumps and contributed to the use of working fluid mixtures in vapor compression systems developing advanced cycles with new degrees of freedom for special applications. His research led to 50 percent energy saving in domestic refrigerators.
Dr. Radermacher founded the Energy Laboratory in 1983 and is the director and co-founder of the Center for Environmental Energy Engineering (CEEE) at the University of Maryland. |
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Web Site(s):
Radermacher Faculty website |
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E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 5286 |
raderm@umd.edu |
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Address:
4164A Martin Hall
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Degrees:
Ph.D, Physics, Munich Institute of Technology (Muenchen, Germany)
MS, Physics, Munich Institute of Technology (Muenchen, Germany)
BS, Physics, Munich Institute of Technology (Muenchen, Germany) |
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Eugene M. Rasmusson |
| Sr Res Schl Emeritus |
| Atmospheric & Oceanic Science |
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Expertise Key Words:
El Nino-Southern Oscillation phenomenon, climate change and variability, coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions on the tropics and the nature and variability of the global hydrological cycle. |
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Expertise Credentials:
Rasmusson, one of the best-known climate researchers in the world, is sometimes called the "father of El Nino" for his pioneering diagnosis of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation. El Niño is the vast weather system that originates in the western Pacific every four to seven years.
"We described the beast," says Rasmusson, talking about the El Nino work that consumed him and his team for 20 years. "We studied all the data and laid out the evolution of this event, " he says. By showing the complicated sets of interactions that set El Niño in motion, he and his team provided scientists with analytical methods to study other major oscillations and improve their techniques for making mathematical models of climate systems.
Rasmussen currently chairs the National Academies' Committee on the Future of Rainfall Measuring Missions. He is a former chair of the National Academies' climate research committee, a National Academy of Engineering member and researcher with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. |
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E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 5376 |
erasmu@umd.edu |
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Address:
3407 Computer & Space Sciences Building
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Matthias Ruth |
| Weston Professor of Natural Economics; Co-Director, Engineering and Public Policy |
| School of Public Policy |
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Expertise Key Words:
Environmental economics, policy, planning and engineering issues on a regional, national and international scale; renewable and non renewable resources; dynamic modeling techniques as applied to environmental resources and conditions |
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Expertise Credentials:
*Currently holds the distinguished Roy F. Weston Chair in Natural Economics, UM School of Public Policy;
*Co-founder and co-director, Engineering and Public Policy Program, UM School of Public Policy;
*Published over 100 articles and 10 books in the last 10 years;
*Gave over 100 invited presentations and key note addresses at conferences;
*Member of several editorial boards of scientific journals;
*Member of governing boards of several scientific organizations;
*Book series editor for Springer/Kluwer publishers;
Ruth and colleagues at Tufts and Boston University have conducted a pioneering study demonstrating that in coming decades sea level rise, changes in rainfall and other effects of climate change will have major, costly impacts on infrastructure systems of cities around the world. Ruth first looked at Boston, but has been conducting similar research in cities around the world. |
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Web Site(s):
Research and Publications web site |
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Cell phone |
E-mail(s) |
| 301 405 6075 |
240 899 5793 |
mruth1@umd.edu |
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Address:
2202 Van Munching Hall
College Park, MD 20742 |
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Degrees:
Ph.D., Public Affairs, University of Illinois |
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Joseph H. Sullivan |
| Associate Professor |
| Natural Resource Sciences & Landscape Architecture |
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Expertise Key Words:
Global Climate Change, Stratospheric Ozone, UV-B radiation, Plant Physiology, Ecology, Ecophysiology, Forest Biology, Urban Forestry, atmospheric carbon dioxide increases, stress physiology, secondary chemistry |
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