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University. He obtained a B.Sc. in Environmental Science from Simon
Fraser University in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Earth and Ocean Sciences from
the University of Victoria in 2004. Prior to joining Concordia University in
January 2007, he held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cal-
gary and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Carnegie Institution
at Stanford. Dr. Matthews currently teaches courses on the climate system,
climate change, and environmental modeling at Concordia University. His
research is aimed at better understanding the many possible interactions
between human activities, natural ecosystems, and future climate change,
and contributing to the scientific knowledge base required to promote
the development of sound national and international climate policy. Dr.
Matthews holds several current research grants for projects to investigate the
uncertainties associated with current terrestrial carbon sinks in the context
of expected future climate changes. He has published a number of research
papers in the area of global climate modeling, with particular emphasis on
the role of the global carbon cycle in the climate system, estimating allow-
able emissions for climate stabilization, and understanding our commitment
to long-term climate warming.
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
is the Louis Block Professor in Geophysi-
cal Sciences at The College at the University of Chicago, having earlier
served on the atmospheric science faculties of Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and Princeton. His Climate Systems Center project has
worked to bring modern software design techniques to the problem of
climate simulation, and his research on climate dynamics has covered
phenomena ranging from global warming to deep-time paleoclimate to
climate of other planets.
He has also collaborated with David Archer on the University of Chi-
cago's global warming curriculum. He was a lead author of the IPCC Third
Assessment Report and a co-author of the National Research Council study
on abrupt climate change. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical
Union, has been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and, in recognition of
his work on climate, he has been named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes
Academiques by the Republic of France. Dr. Pierrehumbert's topic on com-
parative planetary climate,
Principles of Planetary Climate
, will be published
in December 2010 by Cambridge University Press. Another topic,
The
Warming Papers
, written in collaboration with David Archer, will be appear-
ing from Wiley Blackwell. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
