IGERT:Global Change, Marine Ecosystems and Society

Participating faculty and researchers

Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) 
Geosciences: Richard Norris (PI, paleoclimate and marine biodiversity, NRC Chair of “Lessons for Future Climate from Deep Time”, interim Associate Director of UCSD’s Sustainability Solutions Institute), Jeremy Jackson (Director CMBC, marine ecology and human impacts on marine ecosystems), Neal Driscoll (sea level, coastal processes), Helen Fricker (glacial processes and sea level), Wolf Berger (climate and biological implications of sea level change)

Climate: Ralph Keeling (climate and atmospheric gases, Associate Director, Sustainability Solutions Institute, Director SIO’s CO2 monitoring program), Art Miller (California Current LTER), Jeff Severinghaus (climate variability, Director, SIO Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere Program), Chris Charles (climate variability) Bruce Cornuelle (ocean acoustics, large scale circulation; Director, UCSD Climate Institute), Lynn Russell (atmospheric chemistry, aerosol-cloud interaction), Joel Norris (climate and atmospheric sciences), Ram Ramanathan (applied ocean science and atmospheric sciences; clouds, aerosols, greenhouse gases and climate; climate change mitigation)

Biology: Lisa Levin (Co-PI, marine ecology and restoration, acidification impacts, Phil Hastings (marine vertebrates, Gulf of California research), Mark Ohman (California Current Ecosystem LTER, plankton ecology), Jennifer Smith (coral ecology & climate impacts), Stuart Sandin (marine ecology of atolls), George Sugihara (theoretical ecology, climate change, fisheries, economics), Jim Leichter (environmental variability, coastal habitats) Integrative Oceanography Division: Sharon Franks (Outreach/Communications in Support of Research and Education, Educational Program Evaluation)

Chemistry: Andrew Dickson (ocean CO2 chemistry), Kathy Barbeau  (marine dissolved metals, iron fertilization), Lihini Aluwihare (marine organic compounds)

Birch Aquarium at Scripps: Cheryl Peach (education & public outreach)

UCSD - Social Sciences, Humanities, and Professional Schools—
Economics: Joel Watson (Co-PI, Chair, Department of Economics, contracts and institutions), Ted Groves       (natural resource economics, international agreements), Richard Carson (environmental economics), Mark Jacobsen (economics of energy markets, environmental economics), David Miller (cooperation with limited information), Eli Berman (technical change and the environment)

History & Science Studies: Naomi Oreskes (Co-PI, NRC member on use of models in regulatory decision-making, risk assessment of climate shifts, Provost of 6th College)

Sociology:

Political Science: Clark Gibson (politics of common property, administrative structures and political decision making)

Rady School of Management: Clark Jordan (project management; Assistant Dean, UCSD Rady School); David Schkade (environmental resource valuation, decision making processes, risk assessment of climate shifts)

Sustainability Solutions Institute: Lisa Shaffer (sustainability, public policy), Paul Linden (Chair, Dept of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering; Director, Sustainability Solutions Institute)

International Relations and Pacific Studies: Peter Cowhey (international relations) Junjie Zhang (econometric modeling of complex life histories, fisheries management evaluations), Josh Graff-Zivin (environment/public health/development economics), Craig McIntosh (development economics, program evaluation)

Biological Sciences: David  Woodruff (biological and societal implications of sea level rise), Walter Jetz (global scale ecological patterns)

NOAA - Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) — Lisa Ballance (Co-PI;  climate change in tropical oceans and ecosystem management), Jay Barlow (ecological modeling, climate change in tropical oceans), Dale Squires (fisheries economics) Sarah Mesnick (behavioral adaptations)

Environmental Law Institute (ELI)— Kathryn Mengerink (natural resource law, environmental agreements)