Michael MacCracken
Michael MacCracken has been Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs with the Climate Institute in Washington DC[1] since 2002; he was also elected to its Board of Directors in 2006. He received his B.S. in Engineering degree from Princeton University in 1964 and his Ph.D. Applied Science from the University of California Davis/Livermore in 1968.[2]
From 1993-2002, Dr. MacCracken was on assignment as senior global change scientist to the interagency Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) in Washington D.C., also serving as its first executive director from 1993-1997. During this period with the Office of the USGCRP, Dr. MacCracken also coordinated the official U.S. Government reviews of several of the assessment reports prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and he was a co-author/contributing author for various chapters in the IPCC assessment reports. He served as president of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS), members of which are the national academies of science or their equivalent in about 50 nations. Dr. MacCracken also serves on the executive committees of International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) and the Scientific Committee for Oceanic Research (SCOR).
MacCracken is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[3][4]
References
- ^ A Search for Rules Before Climate-Changing Experiments Begin, New York Times, January 18, 2010
- ^ 2007 SUMMER POLICY COLLOQUIUM, Speaker Biographies, American Meteorological Society. Accessed August 9, 2011
- ^ Michael MacCracken, Past-President IAMAS (2007-2011), International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences. Accessed August 9, 2011
- ^ Bio profile, Climate Institute. Accessed August 9, 2011