UW experts on Paris climate talks

Below are UW faculty members in policy, law, international relations and climate science whose expertise relates to the United Nations climate change conference taking place this month in Paris. Also see the UW clean tech and climate science experts lists for more contacts.

Ryan Kelly
Assistant professor, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs and School of Law
rpkelly@uw.edu | 206-616-0185 | Web
Expertise: Real-world implementation of law and policy in areas of environmental monitoring, resource management, endangered species and ocean acidification. Kelly recently co-authored a paper in Science that brought together 22 scientists and policy experts from nine countries and offered insights on the far-reaching effects of rising carbon dioxide levels in the ocean.

Guillaume Mauger
Research scientist, UW Climate Impacts Group
gmauger@uw.edu | 206-685-0317 | Web
Expertise: Author of a November 2015 report on how various possible future global emissions scenarios would affect climate in the Puget Sound region. See here for other UW climate science experts.

Edward Allison
Professor, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs
eha1@uw.edu | 206-685-0694 | Web
Expertise: Climate change and ocean acidification; coastal zone, ecosystem and resource management. Allison argued in a recent Science paper that we should pay more attention to how climate change’s impacts on ocean and coastal environments affect societies around the globe. Allison spoke during the first-ever Oceans Day at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2009 in Copenhagen.

Stephen Gardiner
Professor, Philosophy
smgard@uw.edu | 206-221-6459 | Web
Expertise: Ethical theory, political philosophy and environmental ethics. Gardiner’s research focuses on global environmental problems (especially climate change), future generations and virtue ethics. He has a book coming out next March called “Debating Climate Ethics,” a “for and against”-style exchange on the topic of whether ethics, and especially justice, is relevant to and useful in global climate policy and negotiations.

Scott L. Montgomery
Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies
scottlm@uw.edu | 206 979-1814 | Web 
Expertise: A geologist, independent scholar and adjunct faculty member in the Jackson School, Montgomery has written widely on topics in scientific communication, the history of science, science and art, contemporary culture and translation.

Sara Curran
Associate professor, Jackson School of International Studies
scurran@uw.edu | 206-459-9236 | Web
Expertise: Impacts of climate change on people in the developing world. Curran is currently collaborating on a climate disaster and migration project.

Nadine Fabbi
Managing director, Canadian Studies Center
nfabbi@uw.edu | 206-543-6269 | Web
Expertise: Climate change as it affects Canada and the Inuit in Canada, which has a contingent in Paris.