STEPHEN G. WARREN October 2006

Born: Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 20 September 1945

Education: Cornell University A.B. Summa cum laude (Chemistry), 1967

Harvard University Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry), 1973

Ph.D. Thesis: The Crystal Structure of Aspartate Transcarbamylase

Employment:

1994-present Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Earth & Space Sciences, University of Washington

(Assistant Professor 1982-1987; Associate Professor 1987-1994)

2001-present Faculty, Astrobiology Program, University of Washington

1983-present Adjunct Faculty Member, Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington

1997-1998, 2004 Visiting Scientist, Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania (sabbatical)

1988-1989 Visiting Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division, Melbourne, Australia (sabbatical leave)

1980-1981 Research Fellow, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

1978-1979 Visiting Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado

1975-1977 Postdoctoral Fellow, Brandeis University, Biophysics Department

1974-1975 Postdoctoral Fellow, Biophysics Department, Max-Planck-Institute, Heidelberg, Germany

Professional Offices:

2003-2006 Council Member, International Glaciological Society

2002-2006 Southern Ocean Working Group of CLIVAR

2001 Review Panel, NSF Polar Glaciology

1998-2001 Committee on Atmospheric Radiation, American Meteorological Society

1997-2005 International Commission on Polar Meteorology of IUGG

1997 Co-editor, International Glaciological Soc. Symposium on Antarctica and Global Change

1996 Convenor, International Radiation Symposium

1996-2000 Consultant, U.S.-Russian Working Group on Arctic Climate

1995-1996 Chair, Advisory Panel, Alaska Field Site of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program

1993-1996 International Climatic Commission of IUGG

1992 Station Science Leader, South Pole Station

1989-1992, 2005-8 Nominating committee, Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Branch of AAAS

1989 Co-editor, International Glaciological Society Symposium on Ice and Climate

1988-1992 Nominating committee, International Glaciological Society

1985-1988 Committee on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, American Meteorological Society

Awards:

2005 Fellow, American Meteorological Society

2003 Highly Cited Author, Institute for Scientific Information (Science Citation Index)

2002 Special Creativity Award, National Science Foundation

2001 Namesake: Warren Ridge, Antarctica (U.S. Board on Geographic Names)

1998 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

1990 Dean's award for exceptional teaching, College of Arts and Sciences, Univ. Washington

1989 First departmental teaching award, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Univ. Washington

1988 First Gerbier-Mumm award for interdisciplinary research, WMO (with Charlson, Lovelock, Andreae)

Field research: Research on snow and clouds with U.S. Antarctic Program at South Pole Station, summers

1985-6, 1990-1, 1999-2000, 2000-1, winter 1992; with Soviet Antarctic Expedition at Vostok Station,

summer 1990-1; with French Polar Institute at Dome C, summer 2003-4. Sea-ice research with Australian

Antarctic Expedition, springs 1998, 1996. Northeast Greenland with Danish Polar Center, 2006.

Foreign Languages: German (good reading and speaking ability),

French (reading knowledge, some speaking ability), Russian (some reading and speaking ability)

Courses Taught at the University of Washington: Climate and Climate Change 211, Earth’s Climate System 220,

Physical Climatology 321, Atmospheric Geophysics 506, Atmospheric Radiation (Shortwave) 532, Atmospheric

Radiation (Longwave) 533, Atmospheric Remote Sensing 534, Introduction to Glaciology 415, Physics of Ice 510,

Formation of Snow and Ice Masses 511, Ice and Climate Modeling 514.

Research Interest: Climatic role of snow and clouds, cryosphere-atmosphere interaction.

Publications: 90 cited publications, with 5700 citations, as of November 2005.