We’re honored to have many of world’s leading climate scientists as our advisors. At the links below, you will learn not only about their scientific lives, but also what they do outside of science. You’ll also be able to see them in action, in videos about each of them.
Ken Caldeira
Ken Caldeira is an atmospheric scientist in the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution at Stanford University.
Bill Chameides
Bill Chameides is Nicholas Professor of the Environment and the former Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.
Julia Cole
Julia Cole is a professor of Geosciences and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona.
Robert Corell
Bob Corell is Chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment and a Principal for the Global Environment Technology Foundation.
Simon Donner
Simon Donner is a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia.
Kerry Emanuel
Kerry Emanuel is an atmospheric scientist and Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jennifer Francis
Jennifer Francis is a research professor with the Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, studying Arctic climate change and Arctic-global climate linkages.
Peter Gleick
Peter H. Gleick is co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California.
Katharine Hayhoe
Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist who is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University.
Greg Holland
Greg Holland is Chair of the Regional Climate Prediction Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
Mark Z. Jacobson
Mark Z. Jacobson is Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.
Daniel Kammen
Dan Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering.
Jeff Kiehl
Jeff Kiehl is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research where he heads the Climate Change Research Section.
Joan Kleypas
Joanie Kleypas is a marine scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who investigates how rising atmospheric carbon dioxide is affecting marine ecosystems.
Chuck Kutscher
Chuck Kutscher is Director of the Buildings and Thermal Systems Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.
Mike MacCracken
Mike MacCracken is Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs with the Climate Institute in Washington DC.
Edward Maibach
Edward Wile Maibach is a Distinguished University Professor at George Mason University, and the Director of Mason’s Center for Climate Change Communication.
Michael Mann
Mike Mann is Director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center and a member of the Penn State University faculty, holding joint positions in the Departments of Meteorology and Geosciences, and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute.
Jeff Masters
Jeff Masters is the co-founder and Director of Meteorology for Weather Underground, the web’s first commercial weather service, the weather provider for the Associated Press, and currently the 60th most-trafficked web site on the Internet.
Jerry Meehl
Jerry Meehl is a senior scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer is Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Naomi Oreskes
Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Harvard University.
Jonathan Overpeck
Jonathan Overpeck is a founding co-director of the Institute of the Environment, as well as a Professor of Geosciences and a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona.
Camille Parmesan
Camille Parmesan is a professor in Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin and holds the National Marine Aquarium Chair in the Public Understanding of Oceans and Human Health at University of Plymouth, UK.
Stefan Rahmstorf
Stefan Rahmstorf is Head of Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
Eric Rignot
Eric Rignot is a professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, and Principal Scientist for the Radar Science and Engineering Section at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Barrett Rock
Barry Rock is a professor of Natural Resources holding a joint appointment in the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space and the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of New Hampshire.
Paty Romero-Lankao
Paty Romero-Lankao is an interdisciplinary sociologist who is a research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research where she leads the Urban Futures initiative.
Terry Root
Terry L. Root is a Senior Fellow/University Faculty at the Woods Institute for the Environment, and a fellow at the California Academy of Sciences.
Benjamin Santer
Benjamin Santer is an atmospheric scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory .
Drew Shindell
Drew Shindell is a Professor of Climate Sciences at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University.
Kevin Trenberth
Kevin Trenberth is a Distinguished Senior Scientist in the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Warren Washington
Warren Washington is an internationally recognized expert in atmospheric sciences and climate research.
Spencer Weart
Spencer Weart is an historian of science who has written extensively on the history of climate science and other topics.
Don Wuebbles
Don Wuebbles is the Harry E. Preble Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Illinois.
