Professor Alan Robock, a world-renowned researcher at Rutgers University, will share highlights on the latest thinking about global warming as well as information on what could happen in our own state of New Jersey. In 2007, Dr. Robock was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as one of the 2,500 members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Dr. Robock is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Rutgers University. He is the Associate Director of the Center for Environmental Prediction, the Director of the Meteorology Undergraduate Program and a member of the Graduate Program in Atmospheric Science at Rutgers.
His research involves many aspects of climate change. He has published more than 250 articles on his research, including more than 150 peer-reviewed papers. He conducts both observational analyses and climate model simulations. His current research focuses on geoengineering, regional atmosphere-hydrology modeling, climatic effects of nuclear weapons, soil moisture variations, the effects of volcanic eruptions on climate, detection and attribution of human effects on the climate system, and the impacts of climate change on human activities.
He is currently Associate Editor of Reviews of Geophysics. In the past, he has served as Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres and Editor of the Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology. He has also served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres and Associate Editor of the Reviews of Geophysics.
In 2007 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as one of the 2,500 members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 1998. He was listed in Who's Who in America in 1999.
He a member of the American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and International Association of Volcanism and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI). He is President-Elect of the Atmospheric Sciences Section of AGU.
He was an active participant in the US-USSR Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Environmental Protection, visiting the Soviet Union as an Exchange Scientist 6 times from 1979 through 1985, and once more in 2004.
