Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention
Pacific Grove, CA. March 22-26, 2010
Participant List
Scientific Organizing Committee
Michael MacCracken, Chief Scientist, Climate Institute, Chair
Paul Berg, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, Advisor and Honorary Chair
Paul Crutzen, Max Planck Institute, Germany, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US (corresponding member)
Scott Barrett, Lenfest Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Columbia University, US
Roger Barry, Director of the World Data Center for Glaciology and Distinguished Professor of Geography, University of Colorado, US
Steven Hamburg, Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund, US
Richard Lampitt, Senior Scientist, National Oceanography Center and Professor, University of Southampton, UK
Diana Liverman, Co-Director of the Institute for Environment and Society and Professor of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, US. Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Oxford and Senior Fellow in the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, UK
Thomas Lovejoy, Heinz Center Biodiversity Chair at the Heinz Center for Science and the Environment, US
Gordon McBean, Professor, Departments of Geography and Political Science and Director of Policy Studies at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
John Shepherd, Professorial Research Fellow in Earth System Science, School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, and Deputy Director (External Science Coordination) of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
Research, UK
Stephen Seidel, Vice President for Policy Analysis and General Counsel at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, US
Richard Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, US
Thomas Wigley, Professor, University of Adelaide, Australia
Participants
Tom Ackerman, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, US
Roger Aines, Carbon Fuel Cycle Program Leader, E Programs, Global Security, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US
Paola Alpresa, Aerospace Engineer. CEO of LYNZOS S.L., Spain
Jim Amonette, Senior Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US
Ana Ivelisse Aviles, Senior General Engineer, GAO, US
Govindasamy Bala, Associate Professor, Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore, India
Richard Benedick, Ambassador, ret.; President, National Council for Science and the Environment, US
Gregory Benford, Professor of Physics, University of California, Irvine, US
Robert J. Berg, Senior Advisor, World Federation of United Nations Associations; Trustee, World Academy of Art and Science, US
Robert Bindschadler, Emeritus Scientist, NASA, US
Jason Blackstock, Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation; Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
Daniel Bodansky, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Woodruff Professor of International Law, School of Law, University of Georgia, US
Peter Boyd, Director of Operations, Carbon War Room, Inc., US
Maxwell Boykoff, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program; Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES), University of Colorado at Boulder, US
Stewart Brand, Co-founder, Global Business Network; author, Whole Earth Discipline, US
Peter Brewer, Senior Scientist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), US
Mark Brown, Associate Professor, Department of Government, California State, Sacramento, US
Lopa Brunjes, Executive VP, Biochar Engineering; Biochar Project Manager, Carbon War Room; Consultant, Global Cooling, US
Martin Bunzl, Professor of Philosophy, Director, Rutgers Initiative on Climate and Social Policy, US
Wil Burns, Co-Chair, International Environmental Law Committee, American Branch,International Law Association, US
Antonio J Busalacchi Jr., Director and Professor, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, US
Fei Chai, Professor of Oceanography and Climate Change, University of Maine, US
Elizabeth Chalecki, Visiting Professor, International Studies Program, Boston College, US
Art Charo, Senior Program Officer, Space Studies Board, National Research Council, US
Francisco Chavez, Senior Scientist, MBARI, US
Frederick Childers, Senior Physical Scientist at GAO, US
Garry Cook, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO, Australia
Paul Craig, Professor Emeritus, Engineering, UC Davis; Member Sierra Club National Energy Committee, US
Kim Cranston, CEO, TransparentDemocracy.org, US
Duane Dale, DFD Associates, US
David Dean, Senior Advisor, Department of Energy, US
Kenneth Denman, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Canada
Floyd DesChamps, Director, GLOBE International, US
Lisa Dilling, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies and member of the Center for Science and Technology Policy, University of Colorado, Boulder, US
Judy Droitcour, Assistant Director, Center for Evaluation Methods and Issues, Applied Research and Methods, U.S. Government Accountability Office 2004 Test Drive User, US
Melanie Fitzpatrick, Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, US
James Fleming, Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Colby College, US
James Fournier, President, Biochar Engineering, US
William Fulkerson, Senior Fellow and LERDWG Chair, Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, University of Tennessee, US
Alan Gadian, Senior Research Scientist, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Leeds University, UK
Alfonso Ganan-Calvo, Professor, ESI, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
John Gibbons, Science & Technology Advisor to Pres. Clinton (1993-8) Ret. Now semi-retired, US
Joseph Golden, Senior meteorologist, NOAA/CIRES-retired, US
Danielle Guttman Klein, President, Guttman Initiatives, US
Chuck Hakkarinen, Retired (previously, research manager at Electric Power Research Institute), US
Daniel Harrison, Visiting Scholar, University of Southern California, Australia
Jennifer Haverkamp, Managing Director for International Policy and Negotiations, Environmental Defense Fund, US
David Hawkins, Director, Climate Programs, National Resources Defense Council, US
E. Dan Hirleman, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, US
Martin Hoffert, Professor Emeritus of Physics (Earth Systems Group), New York University, US
Andreas Felix Hofmann, Postdoctoral Researcher at MBARI, Holland
Deborah Iglesias-Rodriguez, National Oceanography Centre, UK
Robert Jackson, Nicholas Professor of Global Environmental Change and Professor of Biology, Duke University, US
Dale Jamieson, Director of Environmental Studies; Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, New York University, US
David Keith, Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment, Director, ISEEE Energy and Environmental Systems Group, Canada
Robert N. Klein II, President and CEO, Klein Financial Corporation; Chairman of the ICOC.
California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, US
Gernot Klepper, Senior Scientist, Kiel Institute for World Economics, Germany
Tim Kruger, Founder, Cquestrate; Director, Oxford Geoengineering, UK
Kelly Kryc, Program Officer, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, US
Lee Lane, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise for Public Policy Research, US
John Latham, Senior Research Associate, NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA; Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester, UK
Anthony Leiserowitz, Director, Yale Project on Climate Change, US
Chris Lennard, Post Doctoral Fellow in Climatology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Andrew Lenton, Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia
Eli Lewine, Analyst, US
Albert Lin, Professor of Law, University of California, Davis, US
Andrew Lockley, Environmentalist, UK
Jane Long, Principle Associate Director at Large for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US
Douglas MacMynowski, Senior Research Associate in Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology, US
Bryan Martel, Environmental Capital Group, US
Andrew S. Mathews, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz, US
Luiz Gylvan Meira Filho, Visiting Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Jerry Melillo, Senior Scientist, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Ecology Research Center, US
Janot Mendler de Suarez, Working Group on Climate, Oceans and Security; Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands, US
Juan Moreno-Cruz, Postdoctoral fellow ISEEE-Energy and Environmental Systems Group and Department of Economics, University of Calgary, Canada
M. Granger Morgan, Department Head and Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, US
David Morrow, Candidate, A.M. in Public Policy, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, US
Armand Neukermans, Project Coordinator, Silver Lining, US
John Orcutt, Distinguished Professor of Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, US
Andreas Oschlies, Professor, Marine Biogeochemical Modelling, IFM-GEOMAR, University of Kiel, Germany
Andy Parker, Senior Policy Adviser, Royal Society, UK
Edward Parson, Joseph L. Sax Collegiate Professor of Law, Professor of Environment & Natural Resources, University of Michigan, US
Shobita Parthasarathy, Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, US
Graeme Pearman, Director, Graeme Pearman Consulting Pty Ltd, formally Chief CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research, Australia
Seth Perlman, Attorney, Perlman & Perlman, US
Timothy Persons, Chief Scientist, U.S. Government Accountability Office, US
Victor Perton, Victorian Commissioner to the Americas, Australia
Arthur Petersen, Program Director, Methodology and Modeling Program, Netherlands Environmental Assesment Agency (PBL); Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Research Affiliate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Netherlands
Christiano Pires de Campos, Environmental Engineer, Brazil
Venkatachalam Ramaswamy, Director, NOAA/ GFDL, and Lecturer with rank of Professor, Department of Geosciences and Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, US
Phil Rasch, Chief Scientist for Climate Science, PNNL Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, US
Greg Rau, Senior Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US
Steve Rayner, James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization, Director of the Institute for Science Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, UK
Catherine Redgwell, Professor of International Law, University College London, UK
Kevin Rennert, Senate Energy Committee, US
Jennie Rice, Senior Analyst, Strategic Planning, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US
James Rhodes, Post Graduate Researcher, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UCSD, US
Allison Robertshaw, Director, Zennström Philanthropies, UK
Alan Robock, Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, US
Daniel Rosenfeld, Program of Atmospheric Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Lew Rothstein, Professor of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, US
Lynn Russell, Professor, Atmospheric Chemistry, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US
Stephen Salter, Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design; Director Artemis Intelligent Power, UK
Stephen Schneider, Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies; Professor, Department of Biology; Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, US
Jerry Schubel, President & CEO, Aquarium of the Pacific, US
Russell Seitz, Fellow of the Department of Physics, Harvard University, US
Sybil Seitzinger, Executive Director, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), Sweden
Clarisse Kehler Siebert, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden
Steven Smith, Senior Scientist, Joint Global Change Research Institute, US
Robert Socolow, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, US
Jayaraman Srinivasan, Chairman, Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, India
Stuart Strand, Research Professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, US
Pablo Suarez, Associate director of programs, Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre; Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); Boston University, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, US
Masahiro Sugiyama, Researcher, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Socio-Economic Research Center, Japan
Judith Swift, Director, Coastal Institute, University of Rhode Island, US
Sam Thernstrom, Resident Fellow and Co-Director, AEI Geoengineering Project, American Enterprise Institute, US
Bob Thronson, Entrepreneur, Burlingame, California, US
Simone Tilmes, Project Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, US
Dennis Tirpak, Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute, US
Claire Tomkins, Director of Research, Carbon War Room, US
William Travis, Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES); Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder, US
Lisa Van Arsdale, Senior Analyst in the Natural Resources and Environment Division, US Government Accountability Office, US
Naomi Vaughan, Senior Research Associate, University of East Anglia, UK
David Victor, Professor/ Director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, US
Chris Vivian, Principal Marine Advisor, Cefas (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science), Lowestoft Laboratory, UK
Gernot Wagner, Economist, Environmental Defense Fund, US
James Wang, Scientist, Climate and Air Program, Environmental Defense Fund, US
Kelly Wanser, eCert, Inc, US
Andrew Watson, Royal Society Research Professor, University of East Anglia, UK
Naomi Webber, Deputy Director, RCUK Office in the United States, US
A. Joshua West, Assistant Professor (Zinsmeyer Early Career Chair in Geochemistry),
USC Earth Sciences, Visiting Researcher, University of Oxford Earth Sciences, US
Jameson Wetmore, Assistant Professor, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Arizona State University, US
Daniel Whaley, CEO, Climos, US
Kevin Whilden, Conserve Markets, US
Leslie Wickman, Aerospace Corporation, US
James Wilsdon, Director, Royal Society Science Policy Centre, UK
Oliver Wingenter, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Co-Director of the Geophysical Research Center, New Mexico Tech., US
David Winickoff, Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Society, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management; Co-Director, Berkeley Science, Technology and Society Center, UC Berkeley, US
Oran Young, Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
Frank Zeman, Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology, US
Charlie Zender, Professor, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, US
Rapporteurs
Bidisha Banerjee, M.E.M. candidate at Yale Forestry & Environment School, US
Noah Bonnheim, B.A. candidate at Colby College; B.E. candidate at Dartmouth College, US
George Collins, J.D. candidate at Yale Law School; M.E.M. candidate at Yale Forestry & Environment School, US
Rachel Hauser, Science writer/MSc candidate in Environmental Sciences at CU as of Fall 2010, US
Benjamin Kravitz, Graduate assistant in atmospheric sciences program, Rutgers University, US
Ashley Mercer, Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley, US
Amanda Reynolds, B.A. Candidate, Colby College, US
Jesse Reynolds, Graduate student, University of Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Netherlands
Kate Ricke, PhD student, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, PhD Candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley, US