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Marilyn Raphael is a professor in the Department of Geography at the
University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests are in climate
variability and change particularly in the Southern Hemisphere. Her re-
search focuses on understanding the interaction between Antarctic sea-ice
variability and the large-scale atmosphere and includes global climate
modeling with an emphasis on improving the simulation of sea ice and the
atmosphere in the Southern Hemisphere. Dr. Raphael also does work on the
Santa Ana Winds of California. Dr. Raphael received her Ph.D. in geography
from The Ohio State University.
Richard Richels is senior technical executive for global climate change
research at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Washington, DC.
His current research focus is the economics of mitigating greenhouse gas
emissions, development and application of integrated assessment models
for informing climate change policy making, and the incorporation of un-
certainty into climate-related decision making. Dr. Richels has served on a
number of national and international advisory panels, including committees
of the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the
National Research Council. Dr. Richels has served as a lead author for the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Second, Third, and
Fourth Scientific Assessments, contributing to chapters on mitigation, ad-
aptation, and integrated assessment. He also served on the Synthesis Team
for the U.S. National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on the United
States, was a lead author for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Study on Future Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations, and served on
the Scientific Steering Committee for the U.S. Carbon Cycle Program. He
currently serves on the National Research Council's Climate Research Com-
mittee; the Advisory Committee for Carnegie-Mellon University's Center
for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change; and the
U.S. government's Climate Change Science Program Product Development
Advisory Committee.
Terry L. Root is a senior fellow at the Center for Environmental Science and
Policy in the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Dr.
Root's work focuses on large-scale ecological questions investigating factors
shaping the ranges and abundances of animals, primarily birds. Her small-
scale studies have focused on possible mechanisms, such as physiological
constraints, that may be helping to generate the observed large-scale pat-
terns. Her work demonstrated that climate and/or vegetation are important
factors shaping the ranges and abundances of birds and may help forecast