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Associated Departments and Affiliated Personnel

Additional Interaction through Collaborative Efforts

A key activity of the CGCS is the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, which involves extensive interdisciplinary interaction. The Global Change Joint Program is a broad-based endeavor that engages the CGCS in collaborative research efforts across campus and beyond. Formed in 1991 as a joint effort of the CGCS and the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), the Joint Program brings CGCS members together with faculty, staff and student researchers in these MIT departments and other organizations:

• Political Science
• Economics
• Sloan School of Management
• Engineering Systems Division
• Technology and Policy Program
• Earth System Initiative
• Energy Initiative
• Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
• Center for International Studies
• Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory

Similarly, through involvement in the MIT Alliance for Global Sustainability, the CGCS is strengthening ties with climate researchers at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH), the University of Tokyo, and Chalmers University of Technology. This interdisciplinary and international approach, which is organized to encourage collaboration of researchers with a wide variety of backgrounds and interests, is vital to effectively confront the complex challenge of understanding and predicting global change.

Associated Personnel         [Directory of Researchs' Interests] The CGCS includes active participation by approximately 25 MIT faculty who are involved with research and teaching in an area related to at least one the five fundamental processes of the global environment, or with global climate models. In addition there are about 30 full-time professional research staff members and postdoctoral associates, as well as a large number of graduate and undergraduate students working on CGCS-related projects. The CGCS Director is Ronald G. Prinn, TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science. The Associate Director is Rafael L. Bras, Deward A. Abdun-Nur Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Professor of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. The Assistant Director is Anne Slinn. The tables below list the MIT personnel associated with the CGCS, along with their corresponding department affiliation and research area. The CGCS Directory provides summaries of individual research interests as well as contact e-mail addresses and links to individual profile pages. For futher information, contact the CGCS office at cgcs@mit.edu.

MIT CGCS Faculty         | staff |         | Search the MIT Directory |

Faculty Member	Department	research area	position
Boyle, Edward A.	EAPS	paleoceanograhy, ocean chemistry	faculty
Bras, Rafael L.	CEE & EAPS	hydroclimatology, hydrometeorology	CGCS Associate Director
Chisholm, Penny	CEE & Biology	ocean biology	faculty
Eagleson, Peter S.	CEE & EAPS	hydrology	emeritus
Eltahir, Elfatih	CEE	biosphere-atmosphere interaction	faculty
Emanuel, Kerry A.	EAPS	convection and moist processes	faculty
Entekhabi, Dara	CEE & EAPS	hydrology, climate predictability	faculty
Ferrari, Raffaele	EAPS	ocean mixing	faculty
Flierl, Glenn R.	EAPS	ocean modeling, carbon cycle	faculty
Hemond, Harold F.	CEE	wetland hydrology, biogeochemistry	faculty
King, Jonathan A.	Biology	molecular biology	faculty
Lindzen, Richard S.	EAPS	climate dynamics	faculty
Marshall, John	EAPS	ocean modeling	faculty
McLaughlin, Dennis	CEE	hydrologic modeling	faculty
McRae, Gregory J.	ChemE	air pollution modeling, uncertainty	faculty
Mei, Chiang C.	CEE	hydrodynamics, coastal processes	faculty
Plumb, R. Alan	EAPS	atmospheric dynamics	faculty
Polz, Martin	CEE	environmental microbiology	faculty
Prinn, Ronald G.	EAPS	atmospheric chemistry	CGCS Director
Rizzoli, Paola	EAPS	ocean circulation	faculty
Staelin, David H.	EECS	remote sensing	faculty
Stone, Peter H.	EAPS	climate modeling, predictability	faculty
Wunsch, Carl I.	EAPS	ocean model-data comparisons	faculty
Principal Research Scientists/Engineers
Follows, Mick	EAPS	ocean circulation, carbon cycle	principal research scientist
Hill, Christopher	EAPS	atmosphere & ocean model development	principal research scientist
Wang, Chien	CGCS	atmospheric chemistry	principal research scientist
Williams, Earle R.	CEE	atmospheric physics, lightning	principal research engineer

MIT CGCS Research and Administrative Staff         | faculty |

Research Staff	Department	research area or task	position
Campin, Jean-Michel	EAPS	ocean circulation modeling	research scientist
Castanho, Andrea	EAPS	aerosol measurements	postdoctoral fellow
Condron, Alan	EAPS	global circulation	postdoctoral associate
Dutkiewicz, Stephanie	EAPS	ocean biogeochemical modeling	research scientist
Evangelinos, Constantinos	EAPS	computation, model development	research scientist
Ferreira, David	EAPS	coupled oceant-atmosphere modeling	research scientist
Forest, Chris	CGCS	climate observations	research scientist
Gao, Xiang	CGCS	hydrologic data and modeling	postdoctoral associate
Heimbach, Patrick	EAPS	ocean modeling	research scientist
Hill, Helen	EAPS	ocean convection	research scientist
Hodson, Elke	CGCS	trace gas emissions	postdoctoral associate
Huang, Jin	CGCS	inverse emissions estimation	research scientist
Jeong, Gill-Ran	CGCS	aerosol modeling	postdoctoral associate
Kim, Dongchul	CGCS	atmospheric chemistry modeling	postdoctoral associate
Manizza, Manfredi	EAPS	ocean biogeochemical cycles	postdoctoral associate
Maze, Guillaume	EAPS	air-sea interactions, climate variability	postdoctoral associate
Mena, Marcelo	EAPS	energy, pollution, climate	postdoctoral fellow
Rigby, Matthew	CGCS	inverse emissions estimation	postdoctoral associate
Schlosser, Adam	CGCS	ecosystem and hydrology models	research scientist
Scott, Jeffery	EAPS	ocean modeling	research scientist
Selin, Noelle	CGCS	air pollution, human health	postdoctoral associate
Sokolov, Andrei	CGCS	climate modeling	research scientist
Administrative Staff
Goldstein, Frances	CGCS	Global Change Forum	program administrator
Joseph, Robens	CGCS	fiscal administration	financial officer
Richard, Michael	CGCS	human resources	personnel administrator
Salmons, Sally	CGCS	secretarial and scheduling	administrative support
Slinn, Anne	CGCS	research administration	CGCS Assistant Director

  4/2008