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Stephen Schneider: Walter Bean Visiting Scholar 2010

Updated July 19, 2010

Stephen Schneider, who was 65, died today. We were lucky to have met him.

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Stephen Schneider (This year’s Walter Bean Visiting Scholar) will be here two separate weeks: May 14 – May 20, 2010  and Sept 27 – Oct 1, 2010.  The Walter Bean Lecture (likely Sept. 30^th, 2010) and Dinner will be during his second visit in late September.

A brief biography is below, and his website is here: http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/

Biographical summary

Dr. Stephen H. Schneider is the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Biology, Professor (by courtesy) of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Dr. Schneider received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Plasma Physics from Columbia University in 1971. He studied the role of greenhouse gases and suspended particulate material on climate as a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in 1972 and was a member of the scientific staff of NCAR from 1973-1996, where he co-founded the Climate Project.

Internationally recognized for research, policy analysis and outreach in climate change, Dr. Schneider focuses on climate change science, integrated assessment of ecological and economic impacts of human-induced climate change, and identifying viable climate policies and technological solutions. He has consulted with federal agencies and/or White House staff in the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, G.H.W. Bush, Clinton, G.W. Bush and Obama administrations.

Actively involved with the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), an initiative of the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization since its origin in 1988, Dr. Schneider was co-author of “Uncertainties in the IPCC Third Assessment Report: Recommendations to Lead Authors for More Consistent Assessment and Reporting” in 2000 and the cross-cutting theme paper #4: “Assessing the Science to Address UNFCCC Article 2” in 2004. He has been a contributor to all four IPCC Assessment Reports and was most recently a Coordinating Lead Author of Working Group II Chapter 19, “Assessing Key Vulnerabilities and the Risk from Climate Change.” For the 2001 IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) and the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), Dr. Schneider was also a member of the Core Writing Team for each of the Synthesis Reports, which integrate the contributions of Working Groups I, II and III. The 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report is currently being used by governments world-wide as the most up-to-date, credible document regarding climate change science, impacts, adaptation, vulnerability, and mitigation until 2012. After decades of work, Dr. Schneider, along with four generations of IPCC authors, received a collective Nobel Peace Prize for their joint efforts in 2007.

Interested in a lunch with him, arranged by the AGP?

The AGP is planning to arrange a lunch for students to meet with Dr. Schneider in September. Feel free to leave a comment under, to indicate if this is something that would be of interest to you…