Alan Robock

Distinguished Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University

Alan Robock is a Distinguished Professor of climate science in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University.  He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1970 with a B.A. in Meteorology, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an S.M. in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1977, both in Meteorology.  Before graduate school, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines.  He was a professor at the University of Maryland, 1977-1997, and the State Climatologist of Maryland, 1991-1997, before coming to Rutgers in 1998.  Prof. Robock has published more than 500 articles, including more than 290 peer-reviewed papers.  His areas of research include climate intervention (geoengineering), and the climatic effects of nuclear war and volcanic eruptions.  He is the co-founder and co-leader of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP).  He serves as Editor of Reviews of Geophysics, the most highly-cited journal in the Earth Sciences.  He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society (AMS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a recipient of the AMS Jule Charney Medal.  Prof. Robock was a Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.