James L. Buizer »
James L. Buizer
Jim Buizer’s expertise includes climate adaptation, international climate applications, sustainability and development. Before his recent appointment at the UA, Jim was the Science Policy Advisor to ASU President Michael M. Crow and the university’s Executive Director for Strategic Institutional Advancement in the Office of the President. He also served as the Director of the University Center for Integrated Solutions to Climate Challenges in the Global Institute of Sustainability. He held appointments of Professor of Practice in Climate Adaptation Policy & Institutional Design in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, and Senior Sustainability Scientist in the Global Institute of Sustainability.
Jim arrived at ASU in 2003 and was appointed as founding Executive Director of the Office of Sustainability Initiatives in the Office of the President, where he led the conceptualization, design and initiation of the Global Institute of Sustainability and its School of Sustainability. Jim also worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, D.C. from 1985-2003.
Jonathan Overpeck »
Jonathan Overpeck
Jonathan "Peck" Overpeck is a founding Co-Director of the Institute of the Environment, as well as a Professor of Geosciences and a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona. Peck has published over 130 papers in climate and the environmental sciences, and recently served as a Coordinating Lead Author for the Nobel Prize winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment (2007).
Peck has been awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze and Gold Medals, as well as the Walter Orr Roberts award of the American Meteorological Society, for his interdisciplinary research. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences.
Abe Springer »
Abe Springer
Abe Springer is the Director of the School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability as well as a long time professor at Northern Arizona University. Since joining the university in 1994, he and his students have been actively researching Arizona's finite groundwater resources and searching for critical answers to the region's growing challenges.
Abe studies local and regional groundwater flow systems and human impacts on them, the application of principles of sustainability to aquifer management through models, and quantifies the hydrological function of groundwater dominated ecosystems. He has collaborated with ecologists, botanists, plant physiologists, foresters, land managers, engineers, and many different subdisciplines within the Earth Sciences.
James L. Buizer
- Director for Climate Adaptation and International Development
- Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
- University of Arizona
Jonathan Overpeck
- Co-Director, Institute of the Environment
- University of Arizona
Abe Springer
- Director and Professor
- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability
- Northern Arizona University
Join us for a cross-university climate forum, as Arizona’s premier climate scientists discuss the impacts of climate change on Arizona’s water, energy, health, and economic systems and explore practical routes of collaboration among the three universities. We will also bid a fond farewell to Jim Buizer, as he departs ASU to join UA’s Institute of the Environment as their new Director for Climate Adaptation and International Development.
Welcoming remarks by R. F. "Rick" Shangraw, Jr.
Director, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Moderated by Sander van der Leeuw
Dean, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Closing Comments by Laura Huenneke
Vice President for Research, Northern Arizona University
Thursday, September 8, 2011
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Memorial Union, Pima Room 230
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
Video
Climate Change in Arizona from Sustainability @ ASU on Vimeo.
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