PACE 2011 Fellowships

CPAESS facilitates the PACE Postdoctoral program. The goal of this program is to train climate researchers to transform their knowledge
into solutions and tools for the decision/risk management community.

Matthew Druckenmiller
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  • Proposal Title: Providing usable sea ice information to Alaska’s North Slope Borough
  • PhD Institution: Geophysics, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  • Host Partners: Craig George and Robert Suydam, North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management, and Mark Serreze, The National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science, University of Colorado Boulder.
  • Appointment: 2011 - 2013
  • Current Position: Research Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, Colorado
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Benet Duncan
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  • Proposal Title: Developing a set of linked environmental and biological climate change indicators for the North-Central California Coast
  • PhD Institution: Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Host Partners: Kelley Higgason, NOAA Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuary Ocean Climate Center, and Tom Suchanek, U.S. Geological Survey Western Ecological Research Center, Dan Cayan, Scripps, and John (Jay) Stachowicz, U.C. Davis Center for Population Biology
  • Appointment: 2011 - 2013
  • Current Position: Managing Director, Western Water Assessment, CIRES
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Dinali Nelun Fernando
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  • Proposal Title: Droughts in Texas: Assessing precursors, persistence and predictabilty
  • PhD Institution: Rutgers University, Climatology
  • Host Partners: Robert Mace,Texas Water Development Board and Rong Fu and Bridget Scanlon, Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin
  • Appointment: 2011 - 2013
  • Current Position: Manager, Water Science and Conservation/Surface Water Division/Water Availability Program, Texas Water Development Board
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