Biographical information about us

	Michael (Mickey) Glantz is the first Director of CCB, a new NCAR Center that he suggested in October 2004 and has now been created within the SERE lab. It will focus on public outreach and education, especially Climate Affairs. Mickey has been a Senior Scientist since 1983, and is the only social scientist at NCAR to hold that title. Mickey has been writing climate-related editorials for many years, first for Boulder's Daily Camera, and now for his own website at www.fragilecologies.com. More information about Mickey's varied work is available on his home page at www.ccb.ucar.edu/glantz.
	DJan Stewart: I have been working with Mickey for 28 years and started as a part-time secretary for the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group when Mickey was appointed Director. I gradually became more responsible for Mickey's many publications, and began to develop programs. We have worked together on many workshops in various parts of the world, including Moscow, Havana, Budapest, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, western China, and the Galapagos Islands. (Lots of travel, lots of work!) I enjoy the challenge of keeping up with Mickey, and on the weekends I jump out of airplanes to relax. See my website at www.ccb.ucar.edu/stewart for more about me.
	Qian Ye is a project scientist with CCB and focuses on issues related to the social and economic impacts of climate and climate change. He has been leading a research team with the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences to develop a research program within the China Meteorological Administration with Mickey. He is also promoting the Climate Affairs program at various universities in China, and he is leading an international research team to conduct as assessment of the WMO Forecasting Demonstration Program for the Beijing 2008 Olympics. His research interests include climate impacts in marginal areas, including the arid and semiarid lands of Central Asia and the coastal areas of the Pan-Pacific region.
	Tsegay Wolde-Georgis joined CCB at the end of December 2007, coming to us from the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at Columbia University in New York. Tsegay will continue to work to maintain collaborative relationships with stakeholders in the development of CCB projects relating to climate and society, especially focusing on capacity building activities in Africa. Tsegay was an ASP postdoctoral fellow ten years ago, and he brings a decade of experience in African issues to CCB, both as the head of the Political Department at the Embassy of Ethiopia in Washington, DC, and his years at the IRI as a Senior Staff Associate and Coordinator of the Africa Regional Program. He may be reached at CCB through his email at tsegay@ucar.edu, or call him at 303-497-8122.
	Stefanie Herrmann is the second postdoctoral fellow working with CCB, joining Ilan in September 2006 for a two-year fellowship. Stefanie is a geographer who specializes in human-environmental interactions in drylands, particularly questions related to land use and land cover change under conditions of climate variability and uncertainty. She is focusing her research on drylands in developing countries, the societies of which are the most vulnerable to variability and unpredictability of rainfall and the impacts of climate change. She received her PhD in May 2006, from the University of Arizona in Arid Lands Resource Sciences.
	Jiansheng QU is a visiting scholar and a senior research associate from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is working at CCB from October 2007 to April 2008. Jiansheng's research interests encompass climate policies, environmental management, greenhouse gas reduction policies, and sustainable development, particularly in developing regions within China. He is also engaged in global change information analysis and exchange at the Academy of Sciences. He has been in charge of several research projects on regional climate policy, funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and local governments. At CCB, Jiansheng will conduct research on greenhouse gas reduction strategies for underdeveloped regions, in collaboration with Qian Ye, Yiming He, and Michael Glantz.
	Yiming He of China's Ocean University is sharing an office with CCB's Qian Ye in FL1-2027 and is available on Ext. 2897. Yiming is a professor at Ocean University in China. He majored in environmental economics. His research interest involves sustainable development of coastal areas, China's marine policies, energy policies, East Asian energy and environment cooperation, China's economic cost and policies of mitigation of greenhouse gas emission, international cooperation on global climate change. As a visiting scientist at CCB, he will join Dr. Ye Qian to develop CCB's Coastal Urban Affairs Program for one year starting in March 2007.
	Ilan Kelman: My work focuses on applied research related to vulnerability, risk, and disasters in the context of sustainability and development. That has covered a wide range of themes, including floods, volcanoes, tsunamis, disaster deaths, transitional settlement and shelter, safe schools, and education processes. As a researcher at CICERO in Norway, I am focusing on island vulnerability and disaster diplomacy. Island vulnerability explores the processes which create, maintain, and could be used to reduce the vulnerability of isolated locations. Disaster diplomacy investigates how disaster-related activities do and do not reduce enmity and foster peace. Both areas include climate change, international environmental treaties, and sustainable livelihoods. My main website is www.ilankelman.org with specific project links being www.disasterdiplomacy.org (Disaster Diplomacy), www.islandvulnerability.org (Island Vulnerability and Resilience), and www.sheltercentre.org (Shelter Centre).
	Heather Lazrus is a scientific visitor to CCB from the University of Washington where she is a Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Anthropology. Heather has a B.A. in Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and a M.A. in Environmental Anthropology also from the University of Washington. Heather's research interests encompass cultural understanding of and response to disasters in general, and specifically relating to global climate change impacts. Heather's dissertation research was conducted in Funafuti and Nanumea, Tuvalu, in the South Pacific, where she used ethnographic and survey methods to understand how people have dealt with atmospheric and other hazards in the past, how they may be vulnerable or resilient to climate change impacts, and the role of culture and local politics in adaptation. She has also worked with fishing communities in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. In winter 2007, Heather and Dr. Ilan Kelman collaborated under the guidance of Dr. Michael Glantz on continuing investigations into how research on vulnerability and resilience can be critically informed by the local perspectives of people who perceive that their culturally defined normal order is disrupted. Heather may be reached by email at lazrus@u.washington.edu.
	Ivan Ramirez: Ivan is a second year doctoral student in the Department of Geography at Michigan State University. He has a M.A. in Climate and Society from Columbia University and a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Hunter College of the City University of New York. His research interests are related to health, climate, and weather extremes. He is also interested in understanding population vulnerability and why certain populations or groups of people are more susceptible to the untoward effects of climatic events compared to others who live in similar locations. His regional study area of interest is northwestern South America. In the summer of 2006, Ivan worked with Dr. Lino Naranjo Diaz (MeteoGalicia, Spain) and Dr. Elsa Galarza (Universidad del Pacífico, Peru) under the guidance of Dr. Michael H. Glantz to develop an El Niño Affairs program that enhances institutional, community, and individual capacities in Latin American populations so they can better respond to extreme weather events related to El Niño and La Niña. Ivan continues his work during 2007 with Mickey Glantz by maintaining the El Niño Affairs website and assembling materials to create a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of El Niño-related educational and research programs and activities, ranging from individual seminars to semester courses. These materials will be used to foster development in Latin America of "climate, water and weather affairs" activities from the high school to pre-PhD levels.
	Lino Naranjo-Diaz: Lino visited CCB for the month of June 2006 to work together with Ivan and Elsa Galarza from Peru to focus on the development planning and action for the development of El Niño Affairs programs in Latin American universities and training centers. Lino has worked together with Mickey on many other projects, including the UN 16-country study, "Reducing the Impact of Environmental Emergencies through Early Warning and Preparedness" which was completed in 2000 and produced a book, *Once Burned, Twice Shy: Lessons Learned from the 1997-98 El Niño*. Lino's home institution is MeteoGalicia in Galicia, Spain. More information about Lino is available on his personal home page (in English and Spanish). Lino will continue to collaborate with CCB during 2007.