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Robert W. Corell, PhD,
Senior Policy Fellow
Gina M. Eosco, Communication Research Associate
Genene M. Fisher, PhD,
Senior Policy Fellow
Paul A. T. Higgins, PhD Senior Policy Fellow
William H. Hooke, PhD, Director and Senior Policy Fellow
Anthony Socci, PhD, Senior Policy Fellow
Pamela Stephens, PhD, Visiting Senior Policy Fellow
Wendy Thomas
Program Associate
Jan Wilkerson
Administrative Assistant
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Senior Policy Fellow
Phone: (202)737-9006
Fax: (202) 737-9050
Robert Corell has been a Senior Policy Fellow with the Atmospheric Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society since January, 2000. He is also currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
His current policy interests include: research concerned with both the sciences of global change and sustainability, in particular the interface between science and public policy, as well as developing an international initiative in sustainability science that seeks to integrate at the science-policy interface scientific and technological research, assessments, monitoring/observations, and decision support systems. In addition, he currently serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, an international effort to evaluate the effects of climate variability, change, and UV increases in the Arctic.
Biographical data: Prior to coming to the AMS in January 2000, Corell was Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation, where he had oversight of the Atmospheric, Earth, and Ocean Sciences and the global change programs of the NSF. While at the NSF, he also served as the Chair of the committee of the National Science and Technology that has oversight of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. He has also served as Chair and principal U.S. delegate to many international bodies with interests in, and responsibilities for, climate and global change research programs. Before joining the NSF, Corell was a Professor and academic administrator at the University of New Hampshire.
A native of Detroit, Corell is an oceanographer and engineer by background and training, having received Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees at the Case Institute of Technology and MIT. He has also held appointments at the Woods Hole Institution of Oceanography, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the University of Washington.
Corell is an AMS Fellow. He has received an AMS Special Award and the AGU’s Edward A. Flinn III Award.
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Robert W. Corell, Ph.D.