Newswise — The University of Maryland is a national leader in research to understand global climate change (commonly called global warming), its impacts and the scientific, technological, economic and public policy challenges it poses for humanity. University of Maryland experts involved in this research are available to offer perspectives and information about key aspects of the scientific, technological, economic and public policy issues of global climate change.
Maryland's many experts in climate change/global warming include:
Antonio Busalacchi, a former chair of the National Academies' Climate Research Committee, is director of the University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (joint with NASA).
Anthony Janetos is director of the university's Joint Global Change Research Institute (joint with the Department of Energy). Previously he was vice president of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment and director of the center's Global Change Program.
Eugenia Kalnay, a weather and climate forecasting pioneer, is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center. She is author of the book "Atmospheric Modeling, Data Assimilation and Predictability" and of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, including "the most cited paper in the geosciences in the last decade."
Eugene Rasmusson, one of the best-known climate researchers in the world, is sometimes called the "father of El Nino" for his pioneering diagnosis of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation. Rasmusson, a research professor emeritus in the University of Maryland's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, currently chairs the National Academies' Committee on the Future of Rainfall Measuring Missions and also is a former chair of the National Academies' Climate Research committee.
Find information on these and many other of University of Maryland researchers with expertise in climate change issues at: http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/experts/hottopic.cfm?hotlist_id=105
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