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Michael H. Glantz
During FY2006, Dr. Glantz traveled extensively, giving several invited presentations around the globe. He traveled to San Francisco six times in support of his appointment as an Osher Fellow (for 2005-2006) at the San Francisco Exploratorium. Glantz made 26 trips in total, including Japan, India, Mexico, Switzerland, Thailand, and China. He gave numerous invited papers and speeches on subjects such as "Making Climate Serve the People," "Climate Affairs: Usable Science for Society," "Superstorms and Seasons of Superstorms," and spent a week in Tokyo, Japan, giving three lectures to students attending the United Nations University's International Course 2006: Environmental Change: Managing Risks. Glantz was also the invited speaker for the First Undergraduate Conference on Weather and Climate Change Impacts, held in April 2006 at Purdue University. These represent selected highlights of Glantz's lectures and presentations in FY2006; the entire list is available in the "Metrics" section of the NCAR Annual Report.
Conferences and Workshops Glantz organized an international conference, with the financial assistance of the National Science Foundation, The Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It was convened in Bangkok, Thailand, in March 2006, with 26 participants from ten countries, entitled "Prototype Training Workshop for Educators on the Effects of Climate Change on Seasonality and Environmental Hazards in Southeast Asia." The full workshop report is available in PDF here.
Research Activities Glantz has been working on the development of three major research activities during FY2006: these are dimensions of the Climate Affairs notion — Coastal Urban Affairs (megacities on the coast); Spare Time University (delivery of climate, water, and weather related information for education and training purposes); and linking national meteorological and hydrologic services to national science and technology museums. Each of these activities, as well as other Climate Affairs developments, is available on this website under the Table of Contents.
Publications Glantz, M.H., 2006: Problem climates or problem societies? In: H. Bridgman and J.E. Oliver (eds.), The Global Climate System: Patterns, Processes, and Teleconnections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 10-24. Stige, L.C., J. Stave, K-S Chan, L. Ciannelli, N. Pettorelli, M.H. Glantz, H.R. Herren, and N.C. Stenseth, 2006: The effect of climate variation on agro-pastoral production in Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.0600057103. Glantz, M.H., 2006: Global warming: Whose problem is it anyway? GeoTimes, 51(6), 7. Glantz, M.H., 2006: Making climate serve the people. WMO Bulletin, 55(2), 116-125. Glantz, M.H., 2006: Prototype Training Workshop for Educators on the Effects of Climate Change and Seasonality and Environmental Hazards in Southeast Asia. Report of meeting held 6-9 March 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand. Boulder, CO: NCAR. Glantz, M.H., 2005: Environmental problems in drylands: Challenges and tradeoffs for society. In: Z. Adeel, D. Clancy and A. Dubreuil (eds.), Challenges for Drylands in the New Millennium: A Cross-Cutting Approach for Assessment. Hamilton, Ontario: UN University International Network on Water, Environment and Health, 9-32. Glantz, M.H., 2005: What makes good climates go bad? GeoTimes, 50(4), 18-24. Glantz, M.H., 2005: Hurricane Katrina rekindles thoughts about fallacies of a so-called "natural" disaster. Sustainability: Science, Practice & Policy, 1(2).
Funding Sources The research and these activities are supported by the National Science Foundation through its support of the SERE Lab, as well as additional funding from the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. |
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