Climate change experts

Dr Myles Allen: climate forecasting, climate modelling
Leads the Climate Dynamics Group in the Department of Physics and research focuses on how human and natural influences on climate contribute to observed climate change and extreme weather risk, and the limits of climate forecasting. His most recent work has shown that limiting cumulative emissions to below one trillion tonnes of carbon is essential if we are to avoid dangerous global warming above 2 degrees Celsius (see trillionthtonne.org). He also runs the climateprediction.net experiment getting members of the public to run climate model simulations on their home computers.
www.ox.ac.uk/research/mathematical_physical_life_sciences/people/dr_myles_allen.html

Professor Gideon Henderson: oceans and the carbon cycle
Co-Director of the 21st Century Ocean Institute and Professor of Earth Sciences.  His particular interests are long-term climate change (over the last half a million years) and ocean circulation on similar timescales. In relation to oceans, Gideon's research focuses on understanding the complex system of feedbacks that controls the changing carbon cycle, including: sea level rises, the possibility of sequestering of carbon in the ocean and the effects that this would have in terms of ocean acidification.
www.oceans21.ox.ac.uk/members/professor_gideon_henderson

Professor David Marshall: modelling ocean circulation
Co-Director of the 21st Century Ocean Institute. He is a physical oceanographer, interested in understanding the role that the oceans play in the climate change process. His work involves the development of theoretical and computational models on the fluid dynamics of global ocean circulation and the role of the oceans in climate change. Specific interests include the thermohaline circulation (meridional overturning circulation) and its response to increasing atmospheric CO2, effects of ocean circulation on regional sea-level change, and oceanic uptake of heat and CO2. www.oceans21.ox.ac.uk/members/professor_david_marshall

Dr Mark New: climate modelling, climate impacts, water resources
Reader in Climate Science and Programme Leader for the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (Oxford), he researches and teaches in the area of climate change, climate modelling, climate impacts and hydroclimatology. He has been involved over many years in the development of datasets of global climate that have underpinned climate change detection and understanding of climate influences on the terrestrial earth system. He recently convened the international conference on 4 degrees of climate change

www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/mnew.html

Dr Richard Washington: climate modelling, Africa
Reader in Climate Science, he is engaged in research on climate change and variability in Africa. His research evaluates climate change, particularly rainfall, across Africa and how mechanisms of climate are represented in global and regional climate models.
www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/rwashington.html

Professor Paul Klemperer: economic policy and climate change
Edgeworth Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and research interests include industrial economics, auctions, and economic policy related to climate change. He has advised the UK and foreign governments on these issues.
www.paulklemperer.org

Professor Rick van der Ploeg: environmental economics, international development
Professor of Economics and Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCARRE). His main research interests are in environmental and natural resource economics, macroeconomics, and public finance. He has worked on sustainable growth, environmental tax reform, the adverse effects of natural resource dependence on economic development.
www.economics.ox.ac.uk/members/rick.vanderploeg/

Dr Brenda Boardman: energy efficiency, fuel poverty
Brenda is an Emeritus Fellow at the ECI following her retirement in September 2008. Brenda was the former head of the Lower Carbon Futures team and a co-director of the UK Energy Research Centre. Her main research focus is on how to achieve demand reduction in energy across the UK economy, but in particular the built environment. She considers the behavioural, technical, economic and political issues of significantly cutting carbon emissions. Brenda's main research focus is on energy efficiency and the way that energy is used in British homes, particularly by low-income households, i.e. fuel poverty. She has a book published in December Fixing Fuel Poverty.
www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/boardmanbrenda.php

Dr David Bonilla: greenhouse gas standards of vehicles and carbon footprint of supply chains
As a Senior Research Fellow at the  Transport Studies Unit, School of Geography and the Environment, Dr Bonilla is developing a research programme on global carbon footprints of supply chains. David's areas of research interest include GHG regulation of new car markets, EU sustainable freight transport,scenarios for freight transport, and demand for alternative vehicleswith a focus on Japan and the UK. Recent work includes  a book chapter on energy efficiency policy for transport  and UK and EU freight transport demand over the next 50 years.
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/people/dbonilla.php

Dr Nick Eyre: energy demand, low carbon alternatives
Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Energy and Leader of the Lower Carbon Futures group. He is a Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, leading its research work on energy demand. His interests focus on energy policy, especially with respect to energy demand, energy efficiency and small-scale conversion and supply.
www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/eyrenick.php

Dr Polly Ericksen: food security, land use change, developing countries
Senior researcher whose chief interests concern food security, agricultural development, land use change, and managing climate risk in developing countries. She has worked with the Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS) project for the past 4.5 years.  Her recent work looks at how climate change affects the vulnerability of food systems and food security (i.e. the access to food as well as nutritional value of food).  She is currently focused on the institutional and policy issues which need to be addressed in order to create an enabling environment for the sustainable adaptation of food systems www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/ericksenpolly.php

Dr Moshe Givoni: transport policy and economics
Senior researcher at the Transport Studies Unit whose main research interest relates to Transport Policy and Economics and more specifically to integrated transport policy, air transport, rail transport, transport and the environment and walking and cycling. www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/people/mgivoni.php

Dr Cameron Hepburn: emissions trading, climate change policy, climate change finance
Senior Research Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, is an economist whose main research interests are in carbon trading and in financing the investment necessary to reduce emissions.  Recent work includes an OUP book on The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, work on low-carbon competitiveness of nations, and on the role of governments in incentivising the private sector to invest in low-carbon infrastructure through innovative financing mechanisms. www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/people/research_fellows/rf/dr_cameron_hepburn

Dr Oliver Inderwildi: transport emissions, fuel alternatives
At the Smith School, Dr Inderwildi heads a team of researchers investigating ways in which transport emissions could be cut without reducing human mobility. He works on the reaction mechanism of pollutant abatement from automotive exhausts and improving fuel combustion and synthesis. www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/people/research_fellows/rf/dr_oliver_inderwildi

Professor Diana Liverman: human dimensions of climate change, climate governance
Professor of Environmental Science, who has worked on climate policy, climate change impacts on food systems, the role of offsets in climate governance and adaptation to climate change in the Americas.
www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/dliverman.html

Dr Chuks Okereke: Global environmental governance
Based at The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, his research interests lie in the links between global environmental governance systems and international development - both in the realm of theory and in practice. His current research focuses on the  relationship between business climate strategies, government policies, and international climate governance.
www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/people/research_fellows/rf/dr_chukwumerije_okereke

Professor Steve Rayner: geo-engineering, geopolitics
Director of Institute for Science, Innovation and Society in the James Martin 21st Century School and Principal Investigator for the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities. Rayner recently co-authored a Royal Society report on geo-engineering, and is a longstanding critic of the Kyoto Protocol. In addition, he is a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and was a lead author on the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He was listed by Wired Magazine on the 2008 smart list as one of the 15 people the next President should listen to. www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/insis/people/Pages/SteveRayner.aspx

Dr Heike Schroeder: deforestation, environment policy
Dr Schroeder is a Tyndall Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute, where, as part of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, she is analysing options for international action on climate change that involve non-nation state actors, such as cities and agencies. She is particularly looking at mechanisms for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) and how effective REDD will be in Ghana and Peru.
www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/schroederheike.php

Dr Bettina Wittneben: international climate governance, the carbon market
Dr Wittneben now conducts research into international climate governance at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. She examines climate governance and issues related to the carbon market; the building of theory surrounding institutional change ie pace of change and institutional entrepreneurship; and issues of social equity. Before coming to Oxford, she has conducted studies for the UN climate treaty secretariat from 2000 until 2003. www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/people/research_fellows/rf/dr_bettina_wittneben

Dr Jimin Zhao:  China and climate change
As a James Martin 21st Century School Fellow, Jimin is developing a research programme on energy and environment in China with colleagues at the Transport Studies Unit and the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Jimin's areas of research interest include environmental policy, energy policy and technology development, international environmental governance, and sustainable transportation development, with a focus on China.
www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/zhaojimin.php

Roger Street: impacts and adaptation in the UK
Technical Director of UKCIP (UK Climate Impacts Programme) hosted within the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. Roger has an MSc in Physics from the University of Toronto and came to UKCIP in January 2006 after working over 32 years with the Canadian federal government. Much of his work focused on climate, climate impacts and adaptation. These included working within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change beginning with its first assessment report, leadership of the Canada Country Study, and involvement with the US National Assessment on climate change impacts.He leads the Programme’s technical and scientific work aimed at guiding impacts and adaptation studies, and at developing and delivering new supportive resources and tools, including climate scenarios. www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/streetroger.php

Professor David Thomas: adaptation, history of natural climate change
Head of the School of Geography and the Environment, he conducts science that shapes understanding of the past, contemporary and future dynamics of dryland environmental systems, particularly Africa. Humans have adapted to changing environments for millennia and many communities contain a wealth of knowledge on how to beat climatic odds and survive ie whether they show adaptability to climate change. www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/dthomas.html

Dr Chris West: adaptation, impacts of climate change in the UK
He has been Director of UKCIP (UK Climate Impacts Programme), hosted within the Environmental Change Institute, since 2002. It was created in 1997 by the UK Government, and it aims to help organisations in the UK to prepare for unavoidable climate change. This includes: thinking about the impacts of climate change on an organisation; how to minimise (or avoid) the worst impacts; and identifying any opportunities. He is a Senior Research Fellow of the ECI.
www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/westchris.php

Professor Roger Zetter: forced migration, population displacement
Professor of Refugee Studies and Director of Refugee Studies Centre, he is researching environmental impacts of climate change on population displacement and migration. He co-authored the RSC's first Policy Brief in 2009 on Environmentally Displaced People and co-authored 'The role of legal and normative frameworks for the protection of environmentally induced people', in Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Assessing the EvidenceHe will soon start a four country study funded by the Swiss and Norwegian Governments and the UNHCR on the issue of rights protection for environmentally displaced people.
www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/index.html?zetter

Dr Pam Berry: Climate and mitigation/adaptation impacts on biodiversity/ecosystems
Dr Pam Berry explores impacts on biodiversity in Britain and Europe. She is a Senior Research Fellow, based at the Environmental Change Institute. Her researchinterests include: modelling the impacts of climate change on biodiversity, itsvulnerability and the implications of conservation, integrated assessment ofclimate change impacts and adaptation, impacts of mitigation and adaptation,measures on biodiversity and ecosystem services and environmental change.
www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/berrypam.php

Dr Shonil Bhagwat: international biodiversity, conservation
Based in the School of Geography and the Environment, he is a Senior Research Fellow and Course Director of the MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management.
www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/sbhagwat.html

Professor Yadvinder Malhi: impact on ecosystems, deforestation
Professor of Ecosystem Science, based at Environmental Change Institute, Prof Malhi's research interests focus on interactions between forest ecosystems and the global atmosphere, with a particular focus on their role in global carbon, energy and water cycles, and in understanding how the ecology of natural ecosystems may be shifting in response to global atmospheric change. Includes the impacts and limitation of tropical deforestation and REDD.
www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/ymalhi.html

Professor Kathy Willis: long-term impact on global biodiversity
Kathy Willis is Professor of Long-Term Ecology and Director of the Oxford Long-Term Ecology Laboratory, which focuses on the long-term relationship between vegetation dynamics and environmental change. She can talk about biodiversity and climate change.  www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/kwillis.html

Professor Gideon Henderson: history of natural climate change
Co-Director of the 21st Century Ocean Institute and Professor of Earth Sciences.  His particular interests are long-term climate change (over the last half a million years), ocean circulation on similar timescales, and low-temperature fluid flow through sedimentary rocks. His research strives to understand the processes involved in climate change, and therefore to improve the quality of prediction of future changes.
www.oceans21.ox.ac.uk/members/professor_gideon_henderson

Professor Mark Pollard: prehistoric climate and human responses
Director of the Research Laboratory  for Archaeology and History of Art . He is the Oxford point of contact on RESET - Response of Humans to Abrupt Environmental Transitions). RESET looks at the effects of abrupt climate change on prehistoric humans. It also involves Professor Nick Barton and Professor Christopher Bronk Ramsey from Oxford and is led by Royal Holloway, University of London. www.arch.ox.ac.uk/REST.html

Professor Simon Caney: ethics and climate change
Professor in Political Theory, University Lecturer, and Fellow and Tutor in Politics. He currently holds an ESRC Climate Change Fellowship to work on 'equity and climate change'. His research interests include: who should bear the cost of combating climate change; how emissions rights should be distributed globally and within countries; the relationship between climate change and human rights; intergenerational equity, obligations to future generations; how to evaluate climatic risks and uncertainties; the moral issues surrounding other energy sources (eg biofuels); and the moral issues raised by emissions trading and the clean development mechanism. He is co-editor of Climate Ethics; Essential Readings (OUP 2010). He is completing Global Justice and Climate Change (OUP). He wrote a background paper for the World Bank on 'Ethics and Climate Change'. He is a member of the Nuffield Council of Bioethics' Working Party on 'New Approaches to Biofuels'. www.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/staff/