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Robert Corell Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council for Science and the Environment
January 18, 2008
Washington, D. C. At its annual conference, “Climate Change: Science and Solutions,” the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) presented a Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Robert W. Corell, Global Change Program Director at The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, and Senior Policy Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. Given for a lifetime of leadership and achievement in advancing environmental science and its use in decision-making, the award was presented on January 17th in Washington, D.C.
NCSE Senior Scientist David Blockstein said, “If you follow the history of any global change research program in the U.S. -- and much of the world -- you will find Bob Corell’s vision and guiding hand.”
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| Lifetime achievment award-winner Dr. Robert Corell with Chafee Lecturer Dr. John Holdren |
Dr. Margaret Leinen, NCSE Trustee and former Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation, introduced Dr. Corell calling him a “provocateur.” In her remarks, she complimented his ‘hands-on’ work in the field and his vision, noting that as early as 1990 he began considering the human impacts of climate change. Dr. Leinen said Bob has been there “every time global change needed a real leader.”
Currently Dr. Corell is engaged in research on the science of global change as well as the interaction between science and public policy, particularly research activities focused on global and regional climate change and related environmental issues. He serves as chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, an international assessment of the impacts of climate variability and change in the Arctic. He also chairs an 18-country international planning effort to outline major Arctic research challenges.
“The Heinz Center congratulates Bob Corell on his extraordinary record of achievement, and we look forward to being part of his many achievements in the future,” said Heinz Center President Thomas Lovejoy, who was among the NCSE conference plenary speakers.
Previous recipients of the NCSE Lifetime Achievement Award include The Honorable Russell Train, first chair of the Council on Environmental Quality and chairman emeritus of the World Wildlife Fund, and Dr. Ruth Patrick, distinguished limnologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
Following Dr. Corell’s award acceptance, John Holdren, President of The Woods Hole Research Center, and Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard, presented the 8th annual John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture: "Meeting the Climate-Change Challenge.”
Before joining the Heinz Center, Dr. Corell served as a Senior Research Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Previously, he was Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation. During his tenure at NSF, Dr. Corell served as chair of the President’s National Science and Technology Council’s Committee, which oversees the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Throughout his career, he has served as chair and principal U.S. delegate to numerous international bodies focused on climate and global change research.
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