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the possible consequences of global warming on animal communities. In
1990, she received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the Na-
tional Science Foundation and in 1992 was selected as a Pew Scholar in
Conservation and the Environment and Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow in
1999. She received her bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Statistics at
the University of New Mexico, her master's degree in Biology at the Univer-
sity of Colorado in 1982, and her Ph.D. in biology from Princeton University
in 1987. She has served on the National Research Council Committee on
Environmental Indicators.
Konrad Steffen
is a professor at the Cooperative Institute for Environmen-
tal Research/University of Colorado at Boulder, teaching climatology and
remote sensing since 1990. His research involves the study of processes
related to climate variability and change, cryospheric interaction in polar
regions, and sea level rise based on in-situ measurements, satellite obser-
vations, and model approximations. He has lead field expeditions to the
Greenland ice sheet and other Arctic regions for 33 consecutive years to
measure the dynamic response of the ice masses under a warming climate.
He is also the director of the University of Colorado's Cooperative Institute
for Environmental Research (CIRES), the largest research unit on the Uni-
versity of Colorado, Boulder campus. He earned his Ph.D. from the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1983.
Claudia Tebaldi
is a research scientist at Climate Central, a research-media
organization dedicated to the communication of the science of climate
change and a part-time adjunct faculty member in the Department of
Statistics at University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She has a Ph.D. in
Statistics from Duke University. Her work focuses on applications of sta-
tistical modeling to various aspects of climate change research: observed
changes, future projections and their uncertainties, changes in climate
extremes, and climate change impacts, especially in the hydrological and
agricultural sectors. She is a contributing author to the Fourth Assessment
Report of the IPCC.
Gary Yohe
is the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics at Wesleyan
University; he has been on the faculty at Wesleyan for more than 30 years.
He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and received his Ph.D.
in Economics from Yale University in 1975. Most of his work has focused
attention on the mitigation and adaptation/impacts sides of the climate issue
from a risk-management perspective. He is a senior member of the Intergov-
