Jerry Mahlman

	Dr. Jerry Mahlman, Senior Research Associate, at his desk in ISSE.

*Fiscal Year 2006 professional activities and accomplishments of Dr. Jerry D. Mahlman, Senior Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, SERE Lab, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2006. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: I completed an IPCC Working Group 1 review of ALL 11 of the Fourth Assessment Draft Report Review Chapters. This effort required reading, reviewing, and evaluating all 1644 single-spaced, elite-type pages of the Draft Report. This task required roughly 1.5 months of full-time effort.

November, 2005. I completed an invited essay titled "Overarching Comments and Personal Perspectives on the 50 years of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory". This celebrated the official anniversary of the 50th year of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

November, 2005 to February, 2006. I completed a set of oral interviews of my scientific life for UCAR and The American Meteorological Society. It was overseen by Ms. Diane Rabson (UCAR archivist), and conducted by Dr. Robert Chervin (NCAR retired Oceanographer).

February, 2006. I gave a short series of seminars at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs on global warming to a group of  college students from the State of Colorado.

April, 2006. I was interviewed by Dr. Tarak Massarini, of the Governmental Accountability Project, in Washington D.C., who wanted to know more about the discussion of climate science within NOAA and the National Science Foundation. The interview was conducted at NCAR.

April 7, 2006. At their request, I was flown to Houston by the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) in response to their request that I provide perspective on climate and environmental science reporting within the United States. Jim Hansen (NASA), Robert Correll (National Science Foundation), Thomas Knutson, NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and I were all interviewed by BBC in various locales.

May, 2006. I attended and spoke at the Dan Albritton Retirement Seminar held at Old Main on the CU Campus.

June, 2006. I participated in a special ASP session that invited Tim Killeen, Guy Brasseur, and myself to discuss the opportunities and the challenges of becoming a leader of science. The three of us were invited because we have held major scientific leadership positions in the physical sciences.

July 25, 2006. I served as a "Triple Panelist" at the Washington, D.C. "Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars." This one-day session was designed to address the increasing challenges to the science writing press, and why its relationship with the recognized "communicators of climate science". Also present were, most notably, Prof. Anthony Broccoli (Rutgers), Dr. Ben Santer (Livermore National Laboratories (PCMDI), Dr. Anthony Socci (American Meteorological Society), and Prof. Richard Somerville of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of San Diego. This meeting was the culmination of five previous regional workshops that brought together climate science writers and climate science communicators at a scale throughout the United States.


These activities are supported by funding from The National Science Foundation through its support of ISSE.