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John VanDecar is Senior Editor of Physical Sciences at Nature. Following a BSc in Geophysics from Texas A&M University and a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Washington, Seattle, he completed postdoctoral fellowships at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and at the Carnegie Institution, Washington DC. John joined Nature in 1996. His areas of responsibility at Nature include geology, geophysics, and geochemistry of the solid Earth and terrestrial planets.

Posted by Olive Heffernan on April 30, 2007
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Jo Thorpe is an Associate Editor for Nature. She holds a BA in geography from the University of Oxford, an MA in geography and palaeoecology from the University of Minnesota, and a PhD in palaeoclimatology from University College London. Jo joined Nature in 2006. Her areas of responsibility at Nature include climate sciences, physical oceanography, atmospheric sciences and glaciology.

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Patricia Romero Lankao is Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Society and Environment at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research, US. A sociologist by training, she holds two PhD degrees - one in Regional Development and the other in Agricultural Sciences and Environmental Policy. She taught graduate and post-graduate students in Mexico City for 14 years, has collaborated with the Mexican Government, NGOs and public stakeholders, and has led a range of outreach activities on environmental issues. Additionally she has contributed to a number of interdisciplinary international research networks (Global Carbon Project, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International Human Dimensions Programme and Inter American Institute for Global Change Research). Her research interests are at the interface of the human dimensions of global environmental change (e.g. the causes and societal impacts of climate change, especially as applied to cities). She was a lead author of the IPCC WGII Report.

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Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. His interests include science and policy of the atmosphere, particularly climate change and its impacts. His earth system research explores the potential effects of global warming, including the consequences of warming for the major ice sheets and sea level, ecosystems and species, and the nitrogen cycle. His policy research explores ways to interpret and implement the objective of avoiding "dangerous anthropogenic interference" with the climate system. He is a lead author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, served on the US National Research Council's Panel on Climate Variability and Change and is a science advisor to Environmental Defense.

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Kevin Vranes is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado and a Principal Consultant at Point380, a climate and energy consulting firm. He holds a PhD in Physical Oceanography and Climatology from Columbia University, where he was also a Public Policy Consortium Fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs. In 2003 and 2004, as the American Geophysical Union's Congressional Science Fellow, he served as a senior legislative staffer for US Senator Ron Wyden. He has also held a visiting professorship in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Montana where he taught courses ranging from introductory geology to climate change to a graduate seminar in the politics and policy of science.

Posted by Olive Heffernan on April 30, 2007
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Hans von Storch is Director of the Institute of Coastal Research of the GKSS Research Centre and Professor at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg. His research interests are climate diagnostics and statistical climatology, specifically detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change, variability and change in storminess and related marine variables (storm surges, ocean waves), regional climate change; the use of paleo proxy data to study climate variability and change. Hans has published eleven books and numerous articles. He is member of the advisory boards of Journal of Climate and Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Annals of Geophysics, and organiser of the GKSS School on Environmental Research. He is also a member of the steering committee of the International Meeting on Statistical Climatology and of the Committee for the Eduard Brückner award.

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Heike Langenberg is Chief Editor of Nature Geoscience, a new journal being launched in January 2008.
Following a Diplom (German equivalent to MSc) in Mathematics at Philipps-University Marburg and a PhD in Oceanography at the University of Hamburg, Heike did post-doctoral work in Hamburg on ocean and atmosphere modelling covering the recent past as well as climate change scenarios. She joined Nature’s Earth sciences team as an Associate Editor in 1999, and took up the position of Chief Editor for Nature Geoscience in early 2007

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Olive Heffernan is News Editor on Nature Reports: Climate Change. Following a BA in Zoology at Trinity College Dublin and a PhD in Fisheries Ecology at University College Dublin, Olive moved to the UK as a postdoctoral scientist to continue her work on Northeast Atlantic cod stocks. Her long-standing interest in the broader issues surrounding science made her jump ship in 2004 from research to science journalism. She has since been awarded a fellowship and prize for reporting on ocean sciences. Olive was editor of The Marine Scientist magazine and Associate Editor of the Journal of Offshore Technology, reporting on oceanography, climate, marine technology and renewable energies, before joining Nature Reports: Climate Change in 2007.

Posted by Olive Heffernan on April 26, 2007
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Oliver Morton is Chief News and Features Editor at Nature. Oliver joined Nature in late 2005 - a bit more than twenty years after he started of as a science writer doing an internship at The Economist. In the years in between he edited The Economist's science and technology pages, worked as editor of the UK/Europe edition of Wired, freelanced for everyone from The New Yorker to the Hollywood Reporter, wrote Mapping Mars, a book which the critics liked quite a lot, won a couple of awards, blogged a bit and found a number of other ways to use up half of his life so far.

Posted by Olive Heffernan on April 26, 2007
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Roger A. Pielke, Jr. is a Professor in the Environmental Studies Program and Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado. He has degrees in Math, Public Policy, and Political Science, and spent 8 years at the U.S. National Centre for Atmospheric Research, 1993-2001. In 2006, he received the Eduard Brueckner Prize in Munich, Germany for outstanding achievement in interdisciplinary climate research. His most recent book is The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics (Cambridge University Press).

Posted by Olive Heffernan on April 26, 2007
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