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Senior Policy Fellow
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Phone: (202) 737-9006, ext. 433
Fax: (202) 737-9050
Paul Higgins is
a Senior Policy Fellow with AMS. From 2005-2006 he was a Congressional
Science Fellow through the American Association for the Advancement of
Science. During his fellowship, he worked on climate policy in the United
States Senate. From 2003-2005 he was a National Science Foundation
postdoctoral fellow at the University
of California. He
received Ph.D. & M.S. degrees from Stanford University
and a B.S. from The University of Michigan. He is a former fellow of the
Department of Energy’s Global Change Education Program.
Paul tries to help society confront global climate disruption (global
warming). His scientific research examines atmosphere-biosphere interactions
as they relate to the causes and consequences of climate change. His policy
efforts include creating new options, analyzing existing legislative
approaches, and developing risk management strategies that can overcome
contentious political obstacles to climate policy. He also works to inform
policy makers, members of the media, and the general public about climate
science and policy options. While working in the U.S. Senate he developed
provisions to encourage international cooperation and to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions in ways that broadly benefit a wide range of stakeholders.
Paul 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.
Selected publications
Higgins, P.A.T. A mitigation framework for maximum climate protection. In review.
Higgins, P.A.T. Design principles and remaining needs for U.S.
federal climate policy: emission fees. In
review.
Higgins, P.A.T. Carbon cycle amplification: how optimistic assumptions
cause persistent underestimates of potential climate damages and mitigation needs.
Climatic Change. In Press.
Higgins, P.A.T. Disturbance. In:
Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather. Oxford University
Press. In Press.
Higgins, P.A.T. U.S. Federal Climate Policy:
Design Principles and Remaining Needs. Part 1: Emission Fees. An AMS Policy
Workshop Report. American Meteorological Society. Washington, DC.
Higgins, P.A.T. 2008. Science in the policy process: rational
decision-making or Faustian bargain? Bulletin
of the American Meteorological Society. 89(5):688-690.
Higgins, P.A.T. 2008. Federal climate policy: design principles and
remaining needs. Bulletin of the
American Meteorological Society. 89(1):102-103.
Srinivasan, U.T., Carey, S.P., Hallstein, E., Higgins, P.A.T., Kerr, A.C.,
Koteen, L.E., Smith, A.B., Watson, R., Harte, J., Norgaard, R.B. 2008. The
debt of nations and the distribution of ecological impacts from human
activities. PNAS. 105:1768-1773.
Higgins, P.A.T. 2007. 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.
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