Joseph D'Aleo was the first Director of Meteorology at the cable TV Weather Channel. He has over 30 years experience in professional meteorology. Mr. D'Aleo was Chief Meteorologist at Weather Services International Corporation and Senior Editor of “Dr. Dewpoint” for WSI's popular Intellicast.com web site. He is a former college professor of Meteorology at Lyndon State College. He has authored and presented a number of papers as well as published a book focused on advanced applications enabled by new technologies and how research into ENSO and other atmospheric and oceanic phenomena has made skillful seasonal forecasts possible. Mr. D'Aleo has also authored many articles and made numerous presentations on the roles cycles in the sun and oceans have played in climate change.

Mr. D'Aleo is a Certified Consultant Meteorologist and was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). He has served as a member and then chairman of the American Meteorological Society' Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, and has co-chaired national conferences for both the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association. Mr. D'Aleo was recently elected a Councilor for the AMS.

Joseph D'Aleo is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin BS, MS and was in the doctoral program at NYU.

Mr. D'Aleo's areas of expertise include climatology, natural factors involved in climate change, weather and Climate Prediction, and north Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

David Aldrich, Meteorologist on Fox 29 WTXF Philadelphia

Mr. Aldrich joined the FOX 29 team in October 2005, as the "Ten O'clock News" weekend weather anchor. He also produces and reports weather three days a week on "Good Day Philadelphia." He has earned the American Meteorological Society's Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) designation, a professional recognition of the quality of his weather broadcasts. Mr. Aldrich also holds the Seal of Approval from the National Weather Association.

Born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, he attended the University of Delaware before transferring to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in radio, television and motion pictures in 1992. He then attended North Carolina State University where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology in 1999.

David left Rochester, NY, where he was the morning and noon meteorologist at WHAM-TV 13 since July 2001. He also was the on-air meteorologist for WHAM NewsRadio 1180 AM in Rochester since October 2002.

He was weekend meteorologist at WSAZ-TV 3 in Huntington-Charleston, WV, from June 1999 to June 2001; and at WNCN-TV 17 in Raleigh, NC, from April 1999 to June 1999.

Robert C. Balling Jr., Professor of Climatology, Arizona State University

Dr. Robert C. Balling Jr. is a professor in the climatology program at Arizona State University, specializing in climate change and the greenhouse effect. Balling has been a climate consultant to the United Nations Environment Program, the World Climate Program, the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In addition, Balling authored The Heated Debate: Greenhouse Predictions Versus Climate Reality.

Sallie Baliunas, Astrophysicist
Dr. Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D. served as part Deputy Director of Mount Wilson Observatory. Her awards include the Newton-Lacy-Pierce Prize of the American Astronomical Society, the Petr Beckmann Award for Scientific Freedom and the Bok Prize from Harvard University. She has written over 200 scientific research articles. In 1991 Discover magazine profiled her as one of America's outstanding women scientists. She was technical consultant for a science-fiction television series, "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict," airing 1997 - 2001. She received her M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in Astrophysics from Harvard University.

Her research interests include solar variability and other factors in climate change, magnetohydrodynamics of the sun and sunlike stars, exoplanets and the use of laser electro-optics for the correction of turbulence due to the earth's atmosphere in astronomical images.

Thomas A. Birkland, Director of the Center for Policy Research in the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University of Albany

Dr. Birkland is the Director of the Center for Policy Research in the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University of Albany. In 2006, he was on leave at the National Science Foundation, where he directed the Infrastructure Management and Hazard Response program in the Division for Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, Directorate for Engineering. In January 2007 he returned to the University of Albany and to his duties as director of the Center for Policy Research (www. albany.edu/cpr). The Center contains numerous scholars who engage in research on a wide range of policy questions. Professor Birkland is also a co-director of an interdisciplinary Master's program in Biodiversity and Conservation Policy, and is an adjunct member of the Department of Biological Sciences.

Dr. Birkland's research and teaching is in the public policy process, with an emphasis of the political, policy, and managerial aspects of natural and human hazards and disasters. He is the author of After Disaster: Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events (1997) and Lessons of Disaster: Policy Change after Catastrophic Events (2006), both with Georgetown University Press. His textbook, An Introduction to the Policy Process (2 nd Ed., M.E. Sharpe, 2005) has been very well received and widely adopted, and in October of 2006, CQ Press released Professor Todd Schaefer of Central Washington University and Dr. Birkland's edited volume, Encyclopedia of Media and Politics. Dr. Birkland has in recent years visited Thailand and New Orleans in his research on disaster policy. He has published papers in a range of academic outlets, including several articles and book chapters co-written with graduate students.

Recent publications include articles in Social Science Quarterly, Review of Policy Research, Natural Hazards Review, Albany Law Environmental Outlook, and in several edited volumes. Dr. Birkland's professional experience includes service as an aide to Governor Thomas Kean of New Jersey, and as assistant manager of Strategic Planning at the New Jersey Department of Transportation.

Robert Carter, Researcher at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, Australia

Dr. Robert Carter is a paleontologist, stratigrapher and marine geologist with more than thirty years of professional experience and holds degrees from the University of Otago (New Zealand) and the University of Cambridge (England). He has held tenured academic staff positions at the University of Otago and James Cook University (Townsville), where he was Professor and Head of School of Earth Sciences from 1981 to 1999. Dr. Carter has wide experience in management and research administration, including service as Chair of the Earth Sciences Discipline Panel of the Australian Research Council, Chair of the National Marine Science and Technologies Committee, Director of the Australian Office of the Ocean Drilling Program, and Co-Chief Scientist on ODP Leg 181 (Southwest Pacific Gateways). His public commentaries draw on his knowledge of the scientific literature and a personal publication record of more than 100 papers in international science journals on topics which include taxonomic paleontology, paleoecology, the growth and form of the molluscan shell, New Zealand and Pacific geology, stratigraphic classification, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, the Great Barrier Reef, Quaternary geology, and sea-level and climate change. B.Sc. (Hons), University of Otago, Geology, 1963. Ph.D., University of Cambridge, Paleontology, 1968.

Tom Chisholm, Chief Meteorologist WMTW ABC Channel 8-Portland, ME

Tom Chisholm is WMTW's Chief Meteorologist. Tom began his meteorology career as the Chief Meteorologist at WPRI-TV in Providence Rhode Island. His New England experience also includes a staff meteorologist position at WHDH-TV in Boston. Mr. Chisholm also held the position as Chief Meteorologist in San Jose, Calif., Savannah, Ga., and Fort Meyers, Fla. Additionally, Mr. Chisholm has national experience, having worked at the Weather Channel as an on-camera meteorologist. Mr. Chisholm returned to New England in 2003 working at WMUR-TV in Manchester, N.H., the sister station of WMTW-TV.

William Cotton, Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University

Dr. William Cotton is a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. His main scientific interests include cloud physics and dynamics, and mesoscale meteorology. He has a BS in mathematics and an MS in atmospheric science from the State University of Albany and a PhD in Meteorology from Pennsylvania State University (1970).

Dr. Cotton has distinguished himself in a broad range of professional activities as a publishing scientist (more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, seven chapters in books, authored one book and co-authored two books), advisor of graduate students; editor of journals and member of advisory and review panels. From 1970 to 1974, he worked as a meteorologist at NOAA's Experimental Meteorological Laboratory in Miami. In 1974, he joined the faculty of Colorado State University and was quickly promoted through the ranks, achieving full Professorship in 1981. At CSU, he has received the Engineering Dean's Council award for excellence in atmospheric science research, the College of Engineering Abell Faculty Research Graduate Program Support Award and the CSU Research Foundation Researcher of the Year (1993) Award. He has advised 33 PhD and 29 MS graduates.

David Deming, Associate Professor of Arts and Science at the University of Oklahoma

David Deming is associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He graduated from Indiana University in 1983 with a BS degree in geology and received a Ph.D in geophysics from the University of Utah in 1988.

Prior to his arrival at the University of Oklahoma in 1992, Deming held a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the US Geological Survey in California.

Dr. Deming is the author of more than thirty research papers and a textbook on hydrogeology. He is an associate editor for the journals Petroleum Geology and Ground Water. In addition to geology, Professor Deming is interested in the history and philosophy of science.

James R. Fleming, Professor of Science, Technology and Society

Dr. James Fleming is a historian of science and technology and Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Colby College, Maine. His teaching bridges the sciences and the humanities, and his research interests involve the history of the geophysical sciences, especially meteorology and climate change. He currently holds the Roger Revelle Fellowship in Global Environmental Stewardship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where he is working on "A history of weather and climate control."

Professor Fleming earned a B.S. in astronomy from Pennsylvania State University, an M.S. in atmospheric science from Colorado State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Princeton University. In 2003 Professor Fleming was elected a Fellow of the AAAS "for pioneering studies on the history of meteorology and climate change and for the advancement of historical work within meteorological societies." He also was awarded the Ritter Memorial Fellowship at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. In 2005-06 he held the Charles A. Lindberg Chair in Aerospace History at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Professor Fleming is the founder and first president of the International Commission on History of Meteorology and the editor-in-chief of its journal, History of Meteorology. His books include Meteorology in America, 1800-1870 (Johns Hopkins, 1990), Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (Oxford, 1998), and two new titles: The Callendar Effect (American Meteorological Society, 2007), and Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate (Science History Publications/USA, 2006).

Mel Goldstein, Chief Meteorologist for News Channel 8 in Connecticut.

Dr. Mel Goldstein (or Dr. Mel) is a meteorologist, best known as the chief meteorologist for News Channel 8 in Connecticut. Dr. Goldstein was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts where, as Goldstein himself put it, "the conversation was always about the weather."

Since 1970, Dr. Goldstein has taught at Western Connecticut State University, where he developed the Weather Center and established the first and only Bachelor's degree program in meteorology in Connecticut. He also developed a severe-storm prediction index used by numerous electric utilities across the country.

He has been a consultant to firms such as IBM, Union Carbide, General Electric, Detroit Edison, Philadelphia Electric, Northeast Utilities and United Illuminating.

Dr. Goldstein's media career began with a single radio station and by 1976 his broadcasts were on dozens of radio stations nationwide. He then began doing television and in the 1980's his forecasts were seen across the country on the Satellite News Channel, an all-news cable effort of ABC and Westinghouse. He became the Chief Meteorologist at WTNH-TV in 1986. Dr. Goldstein earned a Ph.D. in Meteorology from NYU and holds honorary doctorates from Albertus Magnus College and Mitchell College.

In addition, Dr. Goldstein has made the transition to author by writing "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Weather." It's a quick and easy guide that can answer any question about weather. The profits from this book are donated to cancer research.

Dr. Mel also wrote a weekly column for the Hartford Courant in Northeast Magazine for 20 years.

All of Mel's hard work has not gone unnoticed. He has received the President's Award from Western Connecticut State University for his teaching and community service; the Connecticut Bloomer Award for contributions to the state of Connecticut; and a nomination for an Emmy award for a series of educational vignettes about the weather.

Dr. Mel also won Best of Connecticut poll for an on-air meteorologist on each of the past six years. This reader's poll is conducted by Connecticut Magazine.

Vincent Gray

Dr. Vincent Gray is an "Expert Reviewer" for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; he has published many papers on climate science including detailed critiques on each of the IPCC science reports. The latest "The Greenhouse Delusion: a Critique of Climate Change 2001."

William Gray, Meteorologist

Meteorologist Dr. William Gray may be the world's most famous hurricane expert. More than two decades ago, as professor of atmospheric science and head of the Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University, he pioneered the science of hurricane forecasting. Each December, six months before the start of hurricane season, Gray and his team issue a long-range prediction of the number of major tropical storms and hurricanes that will arise in the Atlantic Ocean basin.

Dr. Gray received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Dept. of Geophysical Sciences in 1964. He has been with Colorado State University's Dept. of Atmospheric Science since 1961, and has been a professor since 1974. He specializes in the global aspects of tropical cyclones; observational and theoretical aspects of tropical meteorological research and the investigation of meso-scale tropical weather phenomena.

Ross Hays, Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility at NASA

Ross Hays is a former CNN weather forecaster/producer and is currently part of the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility at NASA.

Ben Herman, Professor and Head of the Atmospheric Sciences Department at the University of Arizona and Director of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics

Dr. Benjamin Herman is the director of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and also heads the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. He is a member of both the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth's Executive Committee and the Committee on Global Change.

Dr. Herman's research interests include radiative transfer and remote sensing. He is primarily concerned with the optics of atmospheric aerosols, polarization and scattering, and the application of inversion techniques to analyze remote sensing data obtained from aircraft and satellites. Currently, he is working on several satellite based remote sensing projects to monitor ozone, temperature, water vapor, and aerosols from space. Dr. Herman is widely published in journals on these topics.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1963.

Douglas V. Hoyt, Solar Physicist and Climatologist

Douglas V. Hoyt is a solar physicist and climatologist who worked for more than thirty years as a research scientist in the field. He has worked at NOAA, NCAR, Sacramento Peak Observatory, the World Radiation Center, Research and Data Systems, and Raytheon where he was a Senior Scientist. He has conducted research on issues related to climate change, changes in solar irradiance on all time scales, and the sun-climate connection. His most recent publication is the book "The Role of the Sun in Climate Change". He has published nearly 100 scientific papers on solar irradiance variations, the greenhouse effect, atmospheric transmission, aerosols, cloud cover, sunshine, radiative transfer, radiometers, solar activity, sunspot structure, sunspot decay rates, and the history of solar observations.

Warwick Hughes, Earth Scientist
Warwick Hughes is a New Zealand-born graduate in geology from Auckland University who has worked in Australia for many years and has carried out pioneering research on surface temperature measurement. Much of this is to be found, plus important general information, and links to other sites, on his website at http://www.warwickhughes.com.

Craig D. Idso, Founder, Chairman of the Board, and former President of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

Dr. Idso received his B.S. in Geography from Arizona State University, his M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and his Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University, where he studied as one of a small group of University Graduate Scholars.

Dr. Idso's current research focus is on carbon sequestration, but he remains actively involved in several other aspects of global and environmental change, including climatology and meteorology, along with their impacts on agriculture. Dr. Idso has published scientific articles on issues related to data quality, the growing season, the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2, world food supplies, coral reefs, and urban CO2 concentrations, the latter of which he investigated via a National Science Foundation grant as a faculty researcher in the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University. In addition, he has lectured in Meteorology at Arizona State University, and in Physical Geography at Mesa and Chandler-Gilbert Community Colleges.

Dr. Idso is the former Director of Environmental Science at Peabody Energy in St. Louis, Missouri and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences, Association of American Geographers, Ecological Society of America, and The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Sherwood D. Idso, President of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

Prior to assuming the Presidency of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change in October 2001, Dr. Idso was a Research Physicist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service at the U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona, where he worked since June of 1967. He was also closely associated with Arizona State University over most of this period, serving as an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Geology, Geography, and Botany and Microbiology. His Bachelor of Physics, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees are all from the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Idso is the author or co-author of over 500 scientific publications including the books Carbon Dioxide: Friend or Foe? (1982) and Carbon Dioxide and Global Change: Earth in Transition (1989). He served on the editorial board of the international journal Agricultural and Forest Meteorology from 1973 to 1993 and since 1993 has served on the editorial board of Environmental and Experimental Botany. Over the course of his career, he has been an invited reviewer of manuscripts for 56 different scientific journals and 17 different funding agencies, representing an unusually large array of disciplines.

As a result of his early work in the field of remote sensing, Dr. Idso was honored with an Arthur S. Flemming Award, given in recognition of "his innovative research into fundamental aspects of agricultural-climatological interrelationships affecting food production and the identification of achievable research goals whose attainment could significantly aid in assessment and improvement of world food supplies." This citation continues to express the spirit that animates his current research into the biospheric consequences of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content.

Madhav Khandekar, retired Meteorologist, formerly with Environment Canada

Dr. Madhav Khandekar specializes in understanding extreme weather events in Canada and in other parts of the world. He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics, a M.Sc. in Statistics from India (Pune University) as well as both M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Meteorology from Florida State University. As one of the world leaders in meteorology, Dr. Khandekar has worked in the fields of climatology, meteorology and oceanography for over 45 years and has published nearly 100 papers, reports, book reviews and scientific commentaries as well as a book on Ocean Wave Analysis and Modeling, published by Springer-Verlag (1989).

David Legates, Associate Professor in Climatology, University of Delaware, and Delaware State Climatologist
Dr. David R. Legates is the Associate Professor in Climatology in the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware, and the state climatologist for the state of Delaware. In addition to teaching at Louisiana State University, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Virginia, Dr. Legates has served as chief research scientist in a variety of commercial venues, including the Southern Regional Climate Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the Center for Computational Geosciences in Norman, Oklahoma. His areas of expertise include hydroclimatology, precipitation and climate change, and computational methods.

Joseph E. Luisi, Former Chief Meteorologist for Delta Airlines

Mr. Luisi was with the Delta Air Lines Meteorology Department over 25 years. He oversaw the weather data and forecasts that have an impact on Delta Aircraft and airports around the world. His meteorological interests have taken him to over 80 countries in 6 continents. In addition to working for Delta, Mr. Luisi is also a talk show host and science editor for KPSI radio in Palm Springs, Californian. He was the Chairman of the

Air Transport Association Meteorology Group and on the Board of Advisors for Georgia Tech and Embry Riddle University.

Anthony Lupo, Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri-Columbia

Dr. Anthony R. Lupo is an Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science in the Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His areas of expertise include synoptic meteorology, atmospheric dynamics, climate, and climate change. Specifically, he has published studies in many journals examining the dynamics of atmospheric blocking and extratropical cyclones. He has also examined interannual variations and climate change associated with blocking, hurricanes, and other atmospheric phenomena.

Dr. Lupo received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from Purdue University in 1995, and has served as a contributing author and expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He was also a Fulbright Research Scholar to the Russian Federation in 2004. Additionally, he teaches courses at levels from introductory through the graduate at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

His areas of expertise include synoptic meteorology, atmospheric dynamics and climate change.

Pat Michaels, Research professor of environmental sciences, University of Virginia

Dr. Patrick Michaels is a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, CATO Institute Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, and visiting scientist with the Marshall Institute in Washington, D.C. He is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. He holds A.B. and S.M. degrees in biological sciences and plant ecology from the University of Chicago, and he received a Ph.D. in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1979.

Dr. Michaels is a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. His writing has been published in the major scientific journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Nature, and Science, as well as in popular serials such as the Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, and Journal of Commerce. He has appeared on ABC, NPR's "All Things Considered," PBS, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC and Voice of America. According to Nature magazine, Pat Michaels may be the most popular lecturer in the nation on the subject of global warming.

Tad Murty, Adjunct Professor of Earth Sciences and Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa

Dr. Tad Murty is an Adjunct Professor of Earth Sciences and Civil Engineering at the University of Ottawa, and was previously a Senior Research Scientist for Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) Canada and Past Director of the National Tidal Facility of Australia.

As an expert in the science of hurricanes and other extreme weather, Dr. Murty is currently editor of the prestigious Netherlands-based journal, Natural Hazards.

He conducted the official DFO climate change/sea level review for the Pacific and Arctic coasts of Canada . From 1994 to 1997, Dr. Murty was director of the South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring Project funded by Australia for some 15 small island nations in the south Pacific. He was also Professor of Earth Sciences at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia during this period.

Dr. Murty is also one of the world's leading experts in the study of tsunamis and has been consulted by many governments in this field. He participated in a special session of Canada 's National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy in 2005 to plan how to better protect Canadians from the threats of natural hazards. At present, Dr. Murty is leading an international team of meteorologists and oceanographers, on behalf of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, to prepare a storm surge manual for tropical (hurricanes) and extra-tropical (winter storms) cyclones.

James O'Brien, Director Emeritus of the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies at Florida State University

Dr. James J. O'Brien is Director Emeritus of the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies at Florida State University, where he is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Meteorology and Oceanography. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Meteorology from Texas A&M University, and his B.S. in Chemistry from Rutgers University.

Dr. O'Brien is a Fellow with the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, the Royal Meteorological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he is a foreign fellow in the Russian Academy of Science and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

He has received innumerable honors throughout his career. The Florida Academy of Sciences honored James O'Brien with the 2006 Medalist Award. O'Brien, who has been a member of the FSU faculty for 35 years, also received the "Uda Prize" from the Japanese Oceanographic Society and is the first non-Japanese scientist to win the award. O'Brien was also honored as one of the "2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century."

He has been a reviewer for numerous scholarly journals including the Journal of Geophysical Research, the Journal of Marine Research, the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, the Journal of Applied Meteorology, the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and Science.

Dr. O'Brien's areas of expertise include Climate Variability particularly El Nino and La Nina, Hurricanes and General Climate change and global warming.

Roger A. Pielke Sr. - Senior Research Scientist, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado in Boulder, Emeritus Professor of the Department of Atmospheric Science Colorado State University

Mr. Pielke is currently a Senior Research Scientist in CIRES and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (PAOS) at the University of Colorado in Boulder (November 2005 -present). He is also an Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University.

Mr. Pielke has studied terrain-induced mesoscale systems, including the development of a three-dimensional mesoscale model of the sea breeze, for which he received the NOAA Distinguished Authorship Award for 1974. Dr. Pielke has worked for NOAA's Experimental Meteorology Lab (1971-1974), The University of Virginia (1974-1981) and Colorado State University (1981-2006). He served as Colorado State Climatologist from 1999-2006. He was an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina (July 2003-2006) as well as a visiting Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona from October to December 2004.

He has served as Chairman and Member of the AMS Committee on Weather Forecasting and Analysis, and was Chief Editor for the Monthly Weather Review for 5 years from 1981 to 1985. In 1977, he received the AMS Leroy Meisinger Award for "fundamental contributions to mesoscale meteorology through numerical modeling of the sea breeze and interaction among the mountains, oceans, boundary layer, and the free atmosphere." Dr. Pielke received the 1984 Abell New Faculty Research and Graduate Program Award, and also received the 1987/1988 Abell Research Faculty Award. He was declared "Researcher of the Year" by the Colorado State University Research Foundation in 1993. In 2000 he received the Engineering Dean's Council Award from Colorado State University.

He has authored a book published by Academic Press entitled Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling (1984) with a 2nd edition in 2002, a book for Routledge Press entitled The Hurricane (1990), a book (co-authored with W.R. Cotton) for Cambridge Press entitled Human Impacts on Weather and Climate (1995; 2nd Edition 2006), a book (co-authored with R.A. Pielke, Jr.) entitled Hurricanes: Their Nature and Impacts on Society published in 1997 by John Wiley and Sons and was Co-Chief Editor (with R.A. Pielke, Jr.) of a book entitled Storms, published by Routledge Press in 1999.

Dr. Pielke was elected a Fellow of the AMS in 1982 and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2004. From 1993-1996, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the US National Science Report to the IUGG (1991-1994) for the American Geophysical Union. From January 1996 to December 2000, he served as Co-Chief Editor of the Journal of Atmospheric Science. In 1998, he received NOAA's ERL Outstanding Scientific Paper (with Conrad Ziegler and Tsengdar Lee) for a modeling study of the convective dryline. He was designated a Pennsylvania State Centennial Fellow in 1996, and named the Pennsylvania State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Alumni of the year for 1999 (with Bill Cotton). He is among one of three faculty and one of four members listed by ISI Highly Cited in Geosciences at Colorado State University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, respectively.

Professor Pielke has published over 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 50 chapters in books, and co-edited 9 books. A listing of papers can be viewed at the project website: http://blue.atmos.colostate.edu.

Gary Sharp, Scientific Director, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study

Dr. Gary D. Sharp is an Adjunct Professor at the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. He is also the Special Science Advisor to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Research Advisory Panel and Scientific Director of the Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study.

He was senior editor of the fourth Edition of the FAO Atlas on Living Resources of the Sea, and he initiated the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Integrated Ocean Sciences, (CIRIOS) a joint institute between NOAA and the Naval Postgraduate School. From 1993 to 1997 Dr. Sharp was the Technology and Curriculum Development Planner for CSU Monterey Bay.

The main emphases of Dr. Sharp's current work are the topics of Climate and Global Change, and the applications of climate and upper ocean monitoring related to aquatic resources. Dr. Sharp recieved his PhD in Marine Biology from the University of California (1972), as well as a B.S. in Zoology (1967) and an M.S. in Biology (1968) from San Diego State University.

His areas of expertise are climate and global change and applications of climate and upper-ocean monitoring related to aquatic resources.

S. Fred Singer, President of the Science & Environment Policy Project

S. Fred Singer is internationally known for his work on energy and environmental issues. A pioneer in the development of rocket and satellite technology, he devised the basic instrument for measuring stratospheric ozone and was principal investigator on a satellite experiment retrieved by the space shuttle in 1990. He was the first scientist to predict that population growth would increase atmospheric methane—an important greenhouse gas.

He is now President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project, a non-profit policy research group he founded in 1990. Singer is also a Distinguished Research Professor at George Mason University and professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. His previous government and academic positions include Chief Scientist, U.S. Department of Transportation (1987- 89); Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970-71); Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water Quality and Research, U.S. Department of the Interior (1967- 70); founding Dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences, University of Miami (1964-67); first Director of the National Weather Satellite Service (1962-64); and Director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Maryland (1953-62).

Singer has received numerous awards for his research, including a Special Commendation from the White House for achievements in artificial earth satellites, a U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award for the development and management of the U.S. weather satellite program and the first Science Medal from the British Interplanetary Society. He has served on state and federal advisory panels, including five years as vice chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmospheres. He frequently testifies before Congress.

Singer did his undergraduate work in electrical engineering at Ohio State University and holds a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books and monographs, including Is There an Optimum Level of Population? (McGraw-Hill, 1971), Free Market Energy (Universe Books, 1984), and Global Climate Change (Paragon House, 1989). Singer has also published more than 400 technical papers in scientific, economic, and public policy journals, as well as numerous editorial essays and articles in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New Republic, Newsweek, Journal of Commerce, Washington Times, Washington Post, and other publications. His latest book, Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate, was published in late 1997 through the Independent Institute.

Roy Spencer, Principal Research Scientist, University of Alabama

Dr. Roy Spencer is a principal research scientist for the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA's Aqua satellite. In the past, he has served as Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Dr. Spencer is the recipient of NASA's Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement and the American Meteorological Society's Special Award for his satellite-based temperature monitoring work. He is the author of numerous scientific articles that have appeared in Science, Nature, Journal of Climate, Monthly Weather Review, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology, Remote Sensing Reviews, Advances in Space Research and Climatic Change.

Dr. Spencer received his Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin in 1981.

Dr. Spencer's areas of expertise are satellite data temperature, hurricanes, the evangelical movement and global warming and general climate change issues.

George Taylor, Oregon State Climatologist; Faculty Member, Oregon State University's College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences

George H. Taylor is the State Climatologist for Oregon and a faculty member at Oregon State University's College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. He manages the Oregon Climate Service, the state repository of weather and climate information, and supervises a staff of ten.

Mr. Taylor is an International Leadership Forum (ILF) Fellow. ILF is a non-partisan, Internet-based think tank composed entirely of top leaders who meet annually in La Jolla, California and in policy forums online throughout the year to discuss the major issues facing our global society and how to communicate the ideas and wisdom generated in these deliberations to policymakers and to the general public.

Mr. Taylor is past president of the American Association of State Climatologists. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society and has received certification as a Certified Consulting Meteorologist by the Society. He also has a California Lifetime Community College Credential. He has published over 200 reports, symposium and journal articles.

Prior to joining Oregon State University in 1989, Mr. Taylor operated his own consulting business in Santa Barbara, California. Previously he was employed as a meteorologist by North American Weather Consultants and Environmental Research and Technology.

Mr. Taylor's area of expertise is general weather and climate with a particular emphasis on the Western US.

Education: B.A. Mathematics U.C. Santa Barbara, 1969

M.S. Meteorology University of Utah, 1975

Kevin Williams, Chief Meteorologist in Rochester, NY at WHEC-NBC 10

To say that Kevin is a life-long weather enthusiast is an understatement. He's always been interested in the weather. His first weather job was in high school providing the daily weather report on the morning announcements. The segment was called "Weather by Williams." His first professional job was with a private meteorological consulting firm in New York City in 1976. Kevin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology from Cornell University in 1981. He formed his business now called WEATHER-TRACK in 1980 in Ithaca and moved the business to Rochester in 1983. Weather-Track now serves clients in North America and Europe. Clients include radio stations, Fortune 500 companies, utilities, municipalities, ski resorts, education centers, newspapers, producers, agriculture interests, marine interests, aviators, attorneys and more. Kevin's television career began on Ithaca's WICB TV in 1980. Kevin is a full member of the American Meteorological society and holder of its seals of approval for radio and television. Kevin is also the author of three weather books, his latest is entitled, "Keep Looking Up."

Richard C. Willson, Principal Investigator, ACRIM Experiments