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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
CV resume
Phone: (202) 737-9006, ext. 433
Fax: (202) 737-9050
Paul Higgins is
a Senior Policy Fellow with the American Meteorological Society. He develops
approaches for addressing climate change and works to inform policy makers,
members of the media, and the public about climate science and policy
options.
His efforts include analyzing existing legislative approaches, creating
new policy options, and developing risk management strategies that can
overcome contentious political obstacles to climate policy. He organized and
leads a web commentary project focused on climate policy, oversees the AMS-UCAR Congressional Science Fellowship
Program, and helps train Earth scientists to engage the federal policy process.
From 2005-2006 Paul was a Congressional Fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). During his fellowship year, he
analyzed climate policy in the office of Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH). While
there he developed provisions to encourage international cooperation and to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions in ways that broadly benefit a wide range of
stakeholders.
Paul’s scientific research examines the causes and consequences of
global climate change. He received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University
and was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of California. He is a former fellow of
the Department of Energy’s Global Change Education Program.
Recent publications:
Srinivasan, U.T., Carey, S.P., Hallstein, E., Higgins, P.A.T., Kerr, A.C., Koteen, L.E., Smith, A.B., Watson, R., Jarte, J., Norgaard, R.B. The
debt of nations and the distribution of ecological impacts from human
activities. PNAS. 105:1768-1773.
Higgins, P.A.T. A year to solve the climate problem. Bulletin of the
American Meteorological Society. 88(8)1181-1185.
Higgins, P.A.T. 2007. Biodiversity loss under existing land use and
climate change: an illustration using northern South
America. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 16:197-204.
Higgins, P.A.T. 2006. Toward an optimal approach for health and
transportation. Environmental Conservation. 33(3):184.
Higgins, P.A.T., and Harte, J. 2006. Biophysical and
biogeochemical responses to climate change depend on dispersal and
migration. BioScience.
56(5):407-417.
Higgins, P.A.T., Chan, K.M.A., and Porder,
S. 2006. Bridge over a philosophical divide. Evidence & Policy.
2(2):251-257.
Higgins, P.A.T. 2005. Exercise based transportation reduces obesity,
oil dependence, and carbon emissions. Environmental Conservation. 32(3):197-202.
Higgins, P.A.T., and Schneider, S.H. 2005. Long-term potential
ecosystem responses to greenhouse gas induced thermohaline
circulation collapse. Global
Change Biology. 11(5):699-709.
Higgins, P.A.T., and Higgins, M. 2005. A healthy reduction in oil
consumption and carbon emissions. Energy
Policy. 33(1):1-4.
Higgins, P.A.T. 2004. Biogeochemical and biophysical responses
of the land surface to a sustained thermohaline
circulation weakening. Journal of
Climate. 17(21):4135-4142.
Higgins, P.A.T., and Vellinga, M.
2004. Ecosystem responses to abrupt climate change: teleconnections,
scale, and the hydrological cycle. Climatic
Change. 64(1-2):127-142
Higgins, P.A.T., Masterandrea, M.D., Schneider,
S.H. 2002. Dynamics of climate and ecosystem coupling: abrupt
changes and multiple equilibria. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
of London series B-Biological Sciences. 357(1421):647-655.
Higgins, P.A.T., Jackson,
R.B., desRosier, J.M., Field, C.B. 2002. Root
production and demography in a California
annual grassland under elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide. Global Change Biology.
8(9):841-850.
Higgins, P.A.T. 2005. Climate Change: Complexity, Chaos and
Order. In:
Understanding Change: Models Methodologies and Metaphors. Andreas Wimmer and Reinhart Koessler
(eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Chan, K.M.A., Higgins, P.A.T., and Porder
S. 2005. Protecting science from abuse requires a broader form of
outreach. PLoS Biology. 3(7):e218.
Higgins, P.A.T. March 30, 2005. (LTR) Junk Economics. The Washington
Times.
Higgins, P.A.T. 2004. (LTR) The Bush Administration and
climate change. Science.
306:2041.
Porder, S., Chan, K.M.A, and Higgins,
P.A.T. 2004. (LTR) Scientists must conquer reluctance to speak
out. Nature.
431:1036.
Porder, S., Chan, K.M.A, and Higgins,
P.A.T. April 04, 2004. (OP-ED) Science and
policy—it’s an issue of trust. San Francisco Chronicle.
Chan, K.M.A., Porder, S., Higgins, P.A.T., and
Kramer, S.B. 2004. (LTR) Concern is more than just ruffled feathers. Nature. 428(6980):255.
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