Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Appendix B
Committee Membership
Susan Solomon
(NAS) is a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and At-
mospheric Administration (NOAA), where she has been a researcher since
receiving her Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of California at
Berkeley in 1981. She made some of the first measurements in the Antarctic
that showed that chlorofluorocarbons were responsible for the stratospheric
ozone hole, and she pioneered the theoretical understanding of the surface
chemistry that causes it. In March 2000, she received the National Medal
of Science, the United States' highest scientific honor, for “key insights in
explaining the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole.” Her current research
focuses on chemistry-climate coupling, and she served as co-chair of the
science panel for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007)
report. Dr. Solomon was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in
1992 and is a foreign member of the Academie des Sciences in France, the
European Academy, and the Royal Society.
David S. Battisti
is The Tamaki Endowed Chair of Atmospheric Sciences at
the University of Washington. Dr. Battisti's research is focused on under-
standing the natural variability of the climate system. He is especially inter-
ested in understanding how the interactions between the ocean, atmosphere,
land, and sea ice lead to variability in climate on time scales from seasonal
to decades. He is also working on the impacts of climate variability and
climate change on food production in Mexico, Indonesia, and China. Dr.
Battisti received a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences (1988) from the University
of Washington.
Scott Doney
is a senior scientist in the Department of Marine Chemistry
and Geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
He graduated with a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography in
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