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STEPHEN HENRY SCHNEIDER


Stephen Henry Schneider has spent most of his adult life not only on research into the causes, characteristics,
and potential e ects of climate change, but also on the explanation and dissemination of information about that
topic to the general public. Schneider's research has covered a wide array of topics, including the numerical
modeling of climate change, the potential e ects of a nuclear war, ecological implications of climate change, and
the e ects of climate change on human society.
Schneider was born in New York City on February 11, 1945. He attended Columbia University, from which he
received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering in 1966 and 1967, and his Ph.D. degree in
mechanical engineering and plasma physics in 1971. His rst professional assignment was with a research team
led by James Hansen at the National Aeronautic and Space Administration's Goddard Institute for Space Studies
from 1971 to 1972. In 1972, he left Goddard to serve as research fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, where he remained for the next 20 years. In 1992, he left NCAR to join the
faculty at Stanford University, where he is currently professor of biological sciences and co-director of the Center
for Environmental Science and Policy and co-director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment
and Resources.

Throughout his career, he has served on a number of committees dealing with all aspects of climate change,
including the Committee on Paleoclimatology and Climatic Change of the American Meteorological Society, the
Climate Dynamics Panel of the National Academy of Sciences, the Climate Sensitivity Group, the Advisory and
Planning Committee for Social Indicators of the Social Science Research Council, the Advisory and Planning
Committee of the U.S. National Climate Program Advisory Committee, and the Scienti c Advisory Committee of
the World Climate Studies Program of the United Nations Environment Programme. He was also the head of
NCAR's Interdisciplinary Climate Systems Section from 1987 to 1992. He has testi ed before Congressional
committees on numerous occasions and has advised presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter as well as
candidates for the presidency and other o ces.

Schneider is a proli c author with numerous books, book chapters, scholarly papers and popular articles,
editorials, and book reviews to his credit. Some of his best known books are The Genesis Strategy: Climate and
Global Survival (with Lynne E. Mesirow, Plenum, 1976), Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse
Century? (1989), Laboratory Earth: the Planetary Gamble We Can't A ord to Lose (1997), Wildlife Responses to
Climate Change: North American Case Studies (with Terry L. Root, eds2001), and Climate Change Policy: A Survey
(with Armin Rosencranz and John O. Niles, eds 2002). In 1992, Schneider received a MacArthur fellowship. In
1991, he accepted the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Westinghouse Award for Public
Understanding of Science and Technology. In 2003, he received the National Conservation Achievement Award of
the National Wildlife Federation and the Edward T. Law Roe Award of the Society of Conservation Biology.

 
David E. Newton
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