In addition to our distinguished panel of module leaders, a number of other scientists will be making significant contributions to our Institute. We have organized them by module.
STELLA Modeling: Dr. Craig Forster
Dr. Craig Forster
Dr. Forster is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Utah’s Department of Geology and Geophysics. He received his Bachelor’s and Doctorate degrees in Geological Sciences from the University of British Columbia. He received his Master’s degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Waterloo. His research interests include Scientific and Applied Hydrology, Systems Modeling of Population Growth and Environmental Sustainability in Arid Regions, Subsurface Fluid Flow and Transport Modeling, and Petroleum Reservoir Geoscience.
Dr. Forster is a principal investigator on the Salt Lake Valley Airshed Project which is directed toward improving the understanding of the complexity of the urban airshed found in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah and engage decision-makers in dynamic simulation of the outcomes of alternative airshed management practices.
Module 1: Dr. Michelle Betsill, Dr. Guy Brasseur, Amory Lovins, Greg Norris and Ralph Torrie
Dr. Michelle Betsill
Dr. Michele Betsill is an Assistant Professor of political science at Colorado State University. She received her Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Betsill was a post-doctoral fellow with the Global Environmental Assessment project in 1999-2000, during which time she conducted research on global climate change assessment in the context of initiatives to control greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. cities. Her dissertation, entitled “Greens in the Greenhouse: NGOs, Norms and the Politics of Global Climate Change,” examined the evolution of international norms related to the protection of the global climate system between 1988 and 1997 and the role of environmental organizations in that process. From 1994-1998, she was a research associate with the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. At NCAR, she studied the use of El Nino forecast information for food security policy making in Southern Africa as well as issues related to vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. Current research interests include the linkages between local and global climate change politics and the factors that shape NGO influence in international environmental politics.
Dr. Guy Brasseur
Dr. Guy P. Brasseur was educated at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium where he earned two engineering degrees: one in physics (1971) and one in telecommunications and electronics (1974). He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the same University, but completed the work at the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy under the supervision of Prof. Marcel Nicolet. His Ph.D. thesis focused on the effects of nitrogen oxides on the stratospheric ozone layer, and specifically assessed the potential stratospheric impact of a projected fleet of supersonic aircraft. In addition to his management tasks, Brasseur’s primary scientific interests are questions related to Global Change, climate variability, chemistry-climate relations, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, global air pollution including tropospheric ozone, solar-terrestrial relations.
Dr. Brasseur is the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the IGBP and President of the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union.
Amory Lovins
Amory Lovins, a MacArthur Fellow and consultant physicist, has advised the energy and other industries for nearly three decades as well as the Departments of Energy and Defense. His work focuses on transforming the automobile, real estate, electricity, water, semiconductor, and several other manufacturing sectors toward advanced resource productivity. Published in 28 books and hundreds of papers, his work in about 50 countries—often with L. Hunter Lovins, with whom he cofounded Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) in 1982—has been recognized by the “Alternative Nobel,” Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, the Happold Medal, eight honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Hero for the Planet, and World Technology Awards. He advises industries and governments worldwide, and has briefed 16 heads of state.
Mr. Lovins serves as CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent, market-oriented, nonprofit applied research center.
Greg Norris
Greg Norris founded and directs Sylvatica, a life cycle assessment (LCA) research consulting firm in Maine, USA. Norris is Program Manager for the United Nations’ Environment Program’s global Life Cycle Initiative, directing the Program on Life Cycle Inventory Analysis. He teaches graduate courses on LCA and Industrial at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he also advises graduate students from HSPH and visiting research fellows from abroad. He consults on LCA and sustainable consumption to UNEP, several Federal and state agencies in the US, and the private and non-profit sectors. Recent research integrates socio-economic pathways to human health within the LCA framework and develops the function-based approach to sustainable consumption analysis.
Mr. Norris is Adjunct Research Professor at the Complex Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire; Science Advisor to the Athena Sustainable Materials Institute in Ottawa, Canada; and an editor of the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment.
Ralph Torrie
Ralph Torrie is the President of Torrie Smith Associates and an internationally recognized expert in the field of energy and sustainable development. He has been involved in the climate change issue since 1988 when he organized the energy workshop at the Toronto Conference on the Changing Atmosphere and drafted what became known as the "Toronto target" - calling for a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2005, and a long term reduction of at least 50%. He was the deputy director of the Energy Research Group of the United Nations University, served on the Royal Society of Canada's blue ribbon panel on greenhouse gas emission reductions, and is the co-inventor of environmental planning software used by over 300 municipalities and companies around the world. He recently completed a study of how Canada could reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030, surpassing the Kyoto target along the way. For the past 25 years he has been advocating a demand-oriented approach to energy and environmental security. He works and lectures throughout the world, has numerous publications, and is a recent recipient of the Canadian Environment Silver Award for his work on climate change.
Module 2: Dr. Marian Fuchs-Carsch, Dr. Timothy L. Kileen and Dr. Thomas Wilbanks
Dr. Marian Fuchs-Carsch
In the 1970s and 80s Dr. Marian Fuchs-Carsch worked for the US Agency for International Development, with tours of the Philippines, Pakistan, Ghana and Mali. In various positions, she was involved in the design of projects in health, agriculture, energy, education, family planning and environment. For some five years, she worked for a Washington-DC based consulting company, where she was involved in the writing, editing and budgeting of diverse projects in developing countries.
Since 1996, Dr. Marian Fuchs-Carsch has worked as a freelance consultant, with clients in the US, Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, and Asia. Her work includes training scientists and development staff in project design and proposal preparation, advising managements on strategic planning and other ways of improving donor relations and fundraising, advising on the design and write up of specific projects, and a range of writing and editing tasks.
Born in the UK, Dr. Fuchs-Carsch holds dual American and British nationality, and works out of homes/offices in Washington DC and near London. Her doctorate (1970) is in psycholinguistincs (dissertation topic: the relationship between language and creativity), her masters in English and her bachelors’ degree in Social Sciences.
Dr. Timothy L. Kileen
Dr. Timothy L. Killeen is the Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). In that role he has overall responsibility for the scientific, technical, and educational activities of the Center, which has an annual budget of over $130M and is home to over 800 permanent scientific and technical staff. NCAR has extensive observational and computational facilities that are used to support basic and applied research in atmospheric and related sciences on behalf of the university community. Dr. Killeen is also a senior scientist at the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) where he leads an experimental and theoretical program in upper atmosphere research. Dr. Killeen leads a research group of scientists and engineers working in the field of aeronomy, using a combination of theoretical and experimental techniques to investigate the dynamics, chemistry and composition of the upper atmospheres of the Earth and other planets.
Dr. Killeen received a BSc in Physics in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Atomic and Molecular Physics from University College London in 1975.
Dr. Thomas Wilbanks
Dr. Wilbanks is manager of Global Change and Developing Country Programs at Oak Ridge National Labratory. Current activities are focused on biodiversity protection and environmental institution-building in Guatemala, industrial ecology in India, and both national and international responses to global climate-change issues, including several leadership roles in the first U.S. National Assessment of Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. He also serves as adjunct professor of geography at the University of Tennessee and on a variety of national committees and panels. In previous years, his activities included assisting in the preparation of U.S. National Energy Plan II (1978–79) and the USAID Global Climate Change Initiative (1997–98).
Dr. Wilbanks received his B.A. degree in social sciences from Trinity University in 1960 and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in geography from Syracuse University in 1967 and 1969.
Module 3: Dr. Greg Carmichael, Dr. Spenser Havlick, Dr. Jeff Kenworthy, Dr. Rosendo Pujol and Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
Dr. Greg Carmichael
Dr. Gregory R. Carmichael is a leader in the development of emissions inventories for natural and pollutant substances and of chemical transport models at scales ranging from local to global. He has worked extensively on issues of long range transport of acidic and photochemical pollutants from Asia, and on the impact of Asian development on the environment. He is an active instructor and advisor, having supervised 29 MS and 24 Ph.D. students.
Dr. Carmichael received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Kentucky in 1978, and rose through the academic ranks at the University of Iowa to Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering in 1985. He is presently Co-Director of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research. He is presently Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the WMO Urban Research Program and serves on the steering committee of the Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (CACGP).
Dr. Spenser Havlick
Dr. Spenser Havlick is a professor of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado where he has served as Dean and Assistant Dean, Chair of CU-Boulder Academic Deans. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Taiwan in 1990-1991 and has returned there many times to train Taiwan's Environmental Protection Agency staff, and carry out his research on natural hazard mitigation. Havlick has been awarded seven outstanding teaching and service awards.
Dr. Havlick has served on the Boulder City Council since 1982, including Deputy Mayor. He is a strong advocate for progressive transportation planning, wise growth management, and increased public participation in governance. He is an advocate for efficient passenger rail service for Colorado's Front Range and serves on the U.S. 36 Corridor MIS Policy Task Force. He received his B.A. from Beloit College in Wisconsin, M.A. from University of Colorado in Limnology, and a Ph.D. at University of Michigan in water resource management and environment planning.
Dr. Jeff Kenworthy
A Senior Lecturer in Urban Environments at the Murdoch's Institute for Science and Technology Policy (ISTP), Dr. Kenworthy is recognized internationally as an expert in transport and urban planning. For much of the past 17 years urban transport systems have dominated Dr. Kenworthy's research. He originally did his Ph.D. on 'Driving Cycles, Urban Form and Transport Energy' which debunked the idea that we can reduce fuel use and emissions by increasing urban travel speeds. He has since expanded his areas of expertise to encompass many areas of transport and urban studies, particularly international comparisons of cities. He is the coauthor of Cities and Automobile Dependence: An International Sourcebook -- an internationally-acclaimed text he wrote with fellow researcher and frequent collaborator, Professor Peter Newman.
Dr. Rosendo Pujol
Director and Cofounder of the Research Program on Sustainable Urban Development (ProDUS) at the University of Costa Rica (UCR), this native Mexican civil engineer focuses his research work on the impacts of urban growth, its relation to infrastructure availability, environmental impacts, social and economic sustainable development, and geographical distribution of telecommunications demand. He directed the Master Plan for the counties of San Ramón and Montes de Oca in Costa Rica and the Participatory Strategic Planning Processes in Grecia, Costa Rica. Dr. Pujol is trained as a Civil Engineer, and holds a Masters degree in Seismic Risk and a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning, both from University of California at Berkeley. Currently, he is a faculty member at UCR. In 1995, he was awarded the Clodomiro Picado Prize, Costa Rica's national award for technology research.
Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
Dr. Sanchez is co-principal investigator of the Earth Observation Systems Laboratory at the University of Alberta, Canada. His education background includes earth sciences, hydrology, and engineering. Dr. Sanchez's research is related with the study of impacts of land use/cover change (LUCC) on biodiversity loss and habitat fragmentation in tropical environments. He uses remote sensing and geographic information systems as tools to try to understand past and present LUCC trends, and how they affect the sustainability of natural resources.
Module 4: Dr. Peter John Marcotullio and Julian Marshall
Dr. Peter J. Marcotullio
Peter J. Marcotullio is a Professor of Urban Engineering, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo and a Visiting Research Fellow at the United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies, Japan. He is a native of New York City, where he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Urban Planning.
Prof. Marcotullio has published articles on globalization, urban development and urban environmental conditions in the Asia Pacific and he is the co-editor (with Fu-chen Lo) of Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia Pacific Region, UNU Press (2001) and (with Andre Sorenson and Jill Grant) of Towards Sustainable Cities: East Asian, North American, and European Perspectives on Managing Urban Regions, Ashgate Publishing (2003 Forthcoming). His research interests include globalization and urban development, regional planning, urban infrastructure history and the ecosystem approach to urban environmental management.
Julian Marshall, Teaching Assistant
Julian Marshall is a Ph.D. candidate in the Energy and Resources Group, at University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation explores the connection between urban form, greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, and population exposure to urban air toxics from motor vehicles. He is also interested in environmental management and sustainability. In response to the rolling blackouts of the 2001-2002 electricity crisis, he conducted a health risk assessment of California's 11,000 diesel backup generators.
Mr. Marshall previously conducted risk assessments as an air quality consultant at Environ Corporation in San Francisco; taught chemical engineering at Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore; and volunteered at the Ladak Ecological Development Group in Kashmir, India.