List of Participants
Meinrat O. Andreae Abteilung Biogeochemie, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, OttoHahn-Institut, Postfach 3060, 55020 Mainz, Germany
Biosphere–atmosphere exchange; biomass burning; aerosol–climate interactions
Bert Bolin S. Åsvägen 51, 18452 Österskär, Sweden
Climate change in the Anthropocene — the interplay between the environmental system and the global socioeconomic system — building awareness and public opinion;
key issues and thresholds
Victor Brovkin Climate System Department, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Climate–vegetation interaction; terrestrial and marine biogeochemistry; Quaternary carbon cycle; feedbacks in the climate system
Ken G. Caldeira Climate and Carbon Cycle Modeling Group, Energy and Environment
Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., L-103,
Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A.
Climate; carbon cycle; energy systems; geochemical cycles; ocean biogeochemistry
and physics; numerical simulation
William C. Clark John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79
John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Linkages between global environmental change and economic development, policy
analysis for resource and environmental management, and understanding the use of
incomplete scientific knowledge in decision-making
Martin Claussen Climate System Department, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
Research (PIK), P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Climate system modeling; paleoclimate modeling
Peter M. Cox Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, FitzRoy
Road, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, U.K.
Earth system modeling; climate–carbon cycle feedback; dynamic global vegetation
modeling; land–atmosphere interaction
Paul J. Crutzen Abteilung Luftchemie, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Otto-HahnInstitut, Postfach 3060, 55020 Mainz, Germany
Global modeling of atmospheric chemical processes for troposphere, stratosphere,
and lower mesosphere; interactions of atmospheric chemistry with climate
Ulrich Cubasch Institut für Meteorologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Carl-HeinrichBecker Weg 6–10, 12165 Berlin, Germany
Climate modeling; climate change modeling; climate variability; climate monitoring
Ottmar Edenhofer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), P.O. Box
601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Sustainability science; integrated assessment models; economic growth theory
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Paul G. Falkowski Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 71 Dudley Road, New
Brunswick, NJ 08901, U.S.A.
Global biogeochemical cycles; photosynthesis; symbiosis; paleoecology
Siegfried A. Franck Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), P.O. Box
601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Earth system analysis; geophysiology; astrobiology
Gilberto C. Gallopín Division of Environment and Human Settlements, ECLAC,
Casilla 179-D, Santiago, Chile
Ecological systems analysis; environmental impact assessment; sustainable development; impoverishment and global simulation models
Hermann Held Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), P.O. Box
601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Uncertainty propagation in Earth system models; emergent phenomena in complex
nonlinear systems; integrated assessment
Gerda Horneck Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Radiation Biology, DLR, German
Aerospace Center, Linder Höhe, 51147 Cologne, Germany
Astrobiology; environmental limits of life; search for signatures of life beyond Earth;
human exploratory missions in the solar system
Alison Jolly The Old Brewery House, 32 Southover High Street, Lewes, Sussex BN7
1HX, U.K. [Affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex]
Lemur behavior and survival (local and international influences on conservation in
Madagascar); human social behavior (evolution and future evolution)
Ann P. Kinzig School of Life Sciences, Life Sciences C. Wing, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, U.S.A.
Urban ecology; human–environment interactions; resilience; landscape ecology and
ecological legacies
Timothy M. Lenton Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bush Estate, Penicuik,
Midlothian EH26 0QB, U.K.
GAIA theory; Earth system science and modeling evolution; astrobiology; Earth history; Quaternary climate changes; human-induced global change; Earth future
Wolfgang Lucht Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), P.O. Box
601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Global biogeochemistry; Earth observation; interaction of sociosphere and biosphere; cognitive elements in evolution and transitions; sustainability
Ronald B. Mitchell Department of Political Science, 1284 University of Oregon,
Eugene, OR 97403–1284, U.S.A.
International environmental law and politics; the interface of science and policy; international institutions and their influence on behavior
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Nebojsa Nakicenovic International Insitute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA),
Schlossplatz 1, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Long-term patterns of technological change and economic development; response to
climate change, and the evolution of energy, mobility, and information technologies;
diffusion of new technologies and their interactions with the environment; dynamics
of technological and social change, mitigation of anthropogenic impacts on the environment and on response strategies to global change
Anthony J. Payne School of Geographical Sciences, University Road, University of
Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, U.K.
Glaciology; Antarctic ice sheet; paleoceanography; numerical modeling
Elke Rabbow Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Radiation Biology, DLR, German
Aerospace Center, Linder Höhe, 51147 Cologne, Germany
Exo/astrobiology; toxicology; biosensorics
Stefan Rahmstorf Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), P.O. Box
601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
The role of the ocean and climate
Patricia Romero Lankao Department of Politics and Culture, Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico at Xochimilco, Calzada del Hueso 1100, Villa Quietud,
Delegación Coyoacán, C.P. 04960, D.F. México
Carbon and regional pathways of development; water; water reform and sustainability; structural change, state reform, and sustainability
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research, School of
Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K., and
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), P.O. Box 601203, 14412
Potsdam, Germany
Earth system analysis; nonlinear dynamics; integrated assessment of climate
change; science of integration
Robert J. Scholes CSIR Environmentek, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
Savanna ecology; global change; biodiversity; assessment of ecosystem services
Daniel P. Schrag Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20
Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Isotope geochemistry; paleoclimatology; geochemical oceanography
Frank Sirocko Institute of Geoscience, University of Mainz, Becherweg 21, 55099
Mainz, Germany
Paleoclimate; Quaternary geoscience; neotectonics
S. Sreekesh TERI, Darbari Seth Block, Habitat Place, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110 003,
India
Regulatory and policy research: remote sensing, GIS, and land resource
management
Will Steffen Executive Director, IGBP Secretariat, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Box 50005, 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Earth system science; global carbon cycle
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Eörs Szathmáry Collegium Budapest, 2 Szentháromság, 1014 Budapest, Hungary
Evolutionary biology; origin of language; origin of the genetic code; astrobiology;
evolution of sex
Liana Talaue-McManus Division of Marine Affairs, University of Miami, Rosenstiel
School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami,
FL 33149, U.S.A.
Human–environment interactions on the coastal zone; integrated coastal management; tropical plankton ecology
Sir Crispin Tickell Ablington Old Barn, Ablington, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7
5NU, U.K.
Environmental issues, especially climate change; sustainability generally; Earth systems science; paleontology
Billie L. Turner II Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA
01602, U.S.A.
Geography; human–environment studies; land change; sustainability science
Andrew J. Watson School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia,
Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K.
Evolution of the atmosphere–ocean–biosphere system, especially long-term carbon
cycle, Quaternary carbon cycle; astrobiology and freqency of life in the Universe
Frances Westall Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Rue de Charles Sadron,
45000 Orléans Cedex 02, France
Origin of life; first life on Earth and its geological context; search for extraterrestrial
life
Oran R. Young Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management,
Donald Bren Hall 4518, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106–5131,
U.S.A.
Social institutions; institutional dimensions of environmental change; human-dominated ecosystems
Gyorgy A. Zavarzin Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Prospekt 60–letija, Oktiabria 7 korp. 2, Moscow, Russia
Functional microbial diversity; microbial communities; environmental aspects of
global change; bacterial paleobiology
Heike Zimmermann-Timm Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK),
P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Ecology; freshwater and marine biology; microbial food web; extreme environments