Department of Earth and Environmental Science

Faculty Working Group: "Responses, Risks and Adaptation to Climate Change"

Faculty Working Group members.

Nineteen faculty members have already committed to being involved in the proposed Faculty Working Group, and their names appear below. They represent four Schools and nine Departments, a diverse group that will likely grow with time.

	Charles Bosk, Sociology, SAS: Policy choices related to health problems caused by the environment or climate change.
Brenda Casper, Biology, SAS: Interactions between plants and soils in structuring plant communities, and environmental effects on these interactions.
	Harold Dibble, Anthropology, SAS: Human adaptation to changing environments and climate during the Late Pleistocene.
Clark Erickson, Anthropology, SAS: History of interactions of humans with their environment.
	David Galligan, Animal Health Economics, Veterinary School: Impacts of food animal production systems (specifically dairy) on the environment.
Robert Giegengack, Earth and Environmental Science (EES), SAS: Environmental change over geologic time.
	Brent Helliker, Biology, SAS: Climate and weather impacts on plant physiology, ecology and evolution.
Benjamin Horton, EES, SAS: Rates and impacts of sea level change – historic and contemporary.
	Douglas Jerolmack, EES, SAS: Sediment transport and effects of climate change on river and coastal systems.
Arthur Johnson, EES, SAS: Nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems.
	Noam Lior, Mechanical Engineering, SEAS: Development of carbon neutral energy sources, renewable energy, nuclear energy and sustainable water desalination.
Sabrina McCormick, Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, Wharton: Health impacts of climate change with particular focus on governmental, medical and community capacity for adaptive responses.
Irina Marinov, EES,SAS: Role of the oceans in past and future climate change, with emphasis on the Carbon cycle.
	Eric Orts, Director, Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership, Wharton: Adaptation to and mitigation of climate change from a regulatory perspective.
Hermann Pfefferkorn, EES, SAS: Effects of climate change on ancient plants.
	Alain Plante, EES, SAS: Organic matter in surface soils, and the influence of climate change on soil carbon.
Roger Raufer, Department of City and Urban Planning, School of Design: Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions utilizing emissions trading mechanisms, with particular attention to China and Asia.
	Frederick Scatena, EES, SAS: Tropical forest hydrology and environmental management.
Dana Tomlin, Landscape Architecture, School of Design: Development and application of geographic information systems.