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Drew Shindell is a
physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...
and a climate specialist and professor at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. He is listed as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher. He was a chapter lead (coordinating lead author) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) October 8, 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C as well as on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report in 2013. He has testified on climate issues before both houses of the US Congress, at the request of both parties. His research concerns natural and human drivers of climate change, linkages between air quality and climate change, and the interface between climate change science and policy. He has been an author on more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and received awards from Scientific American, NASA, the EPA, and the NSF. He was also a leading scientific contributor to the establishment of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, a group of now more than 60 nations along with many intergovernmental and non-governmental organization dedicated to implementing actions that simultaneously reduce air pollution and mitigate climate change. He chaired the 2011 Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone produced by the United Nations Environment Programme and World Meteorological Organization that, along with the paper in ''
Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
'' he led in 2012 entitled "''Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security''" helped to catalyze the Coalition's formation. He has served as Chair of the Science Advisory Panel to the Coalition since 2012. He has addressed the
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system", in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in th ...
, the
World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Inte ...
, federal and state officials, developed a climate change course with the American Museum of Natural History, and made numerous appearances in newspapers, on radio, and on TV as part of his public outreach efforts.


Education and Employment

Shindell is a physicist who got his B.A. at
University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant uni ...
in 1988 and his
Ph.D A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...
at the State University of New York in Stony Brook in 1995. From 2000 to 2014 he was a
climatologist Climatology (from Greek , ''klima'', "place, zone"; and , ''-logia'') or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. This modern field of study ...
at the
NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil List of government space agencies, space program ...
Goddard Institute for Space Studies The Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) is a laboratory in the Earth Sciences Division of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center affiliated with the Columbia University Earth Institute. The institute is located at Columbia University in N ...
in New York City. While there, Dr. Shindell taught atmospheric chemistry at nearby Columbia University for more than a decade. In 2014 he was named Professor of Climate Sciences at Duke University, where he was appointed the Nicholas Professor of Earth Sciences in 2016.


Research interests

His research is concerned with global climate change,
climate variability Climate variability includes all the variations in the climate that last longer than individual weather events, whereas the term climate change only refers to those variations that persist for a longer period of time, typically decades or more ...
,
atmospheric chemistry Atmospheric chemistry is a branch of atmospheric science in which the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere and that of other planets is studied. It is a multidisciplinary approach of research and draws on environmental chemistry, physics, meteorol ...
and air pollution. He uses
climate model Numerical climate models use quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the important drivers of climate, including atmosphere, oceans, land surface and ice. They are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the c ...
s to investigate chemical changes such as air pollution, climate changes such as
global warming In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...
, and the connections between these two. Among his research interests are: * Long-term changes in climate and climate variability patterns * Sensitivity of climate change to different drivers * Climate and air quality linkages and public policy * Interdisciplinary assessment of the impact of policy options on climate, public health, food and the economy * Atmospheric composition changes and solar power generation


Selected publications

* Shindell et al: ''Quantified, Localized Health Benefits of Accelerated Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reductions''. In: ''
Nature Climate Change ''Nature Climate Change'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Publishing Group covering all aspects of research on global warming, the current climate change, especially its effects. It was established in 2011 as the ...
'' 8, (2018), 291-291, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0108-y. *Bergin et al: ''Large reductions in solar energy production due to dust and particulate air pollution''. In: '' Environmental Science and Technology'' 4, (2017), 339-344, . *Shindell et al: ''A climate policy pathway for near- and long-term benefits'', In: ''
Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
'' 356, No. 6337, (2017), 493-494, . *Shindell et al: ''The Social Cost of Methane: Theory and Applications''. In: Faraday Discussions 200, (2017), 429-451, . *Shindell et al: ''Climate and health impacts of US emissions reductions consistent with 2 °C''. In: ''
Nature Climate Change ''Nature Climate Change'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Publishing Group covering all aspects of research on global warming, the current climate change, especially its effects. It was established in 2011 as the ...
'' 6, (2016), 503–507, . * Bond et al: ''Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment''. In: ''
Journal of Geophysical Research The ''Journal of Geophysical Research'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It is the flagship journal of the American Geophysical Union. It contains original research on the physical, chemical, and biological processes that contribute to the un ...
'' 118, Issue 11, (2013), 5380–5552, . * Shindell et al, ''Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security''. In: ''
Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
'' 335, No. 6065, (2012), 183-189, . * Gray et al, ''Solar Influence on Climate''. In: ''
Reviews of Geophysics ''Reviews of Geophysics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Geophysical Union. The current editor-in-chief is Fabio Florindo ( National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology†...
'' 48, Issue 4, (2010), . * Lamarque et al, ''Historical (1850–2000) gridded anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of reactive gases and aerosols: methodology and application''. In: ''
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ''Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics'' is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the European Geosciences Union. It covers research on the Earth's atmosphere and the underlying chemical and physical processes, including the al ...
'' 10, (2010), 7017-7039, . * Steig et al, ''Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year''. In: ''
Nature Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are ...
'' 457, (2009), 459-462, . * Michael E. Mann et al, ''Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly''. In: ''
Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
'' 326, No. 5957, (2009), 1256-1260, . * Shindell et al, ''Improved Attribution of Climate Forcing to Emissions''. In: ''
Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
'' 326, No. 5953, (2009), 716-718, . * Hansen et al, ''Efficacy of climate forcings''. In: ''
Journal of Geophysical Research The ''Journal of Geophysical Research'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It is the flagship journal of the American Geophysical Union. It contains original research on the physical, chemical, and biological processes that contribute to the un ...
'' 110, D18, (2005), . * Shindell et al, ''Solar Forcing of Regional Climate Change During the Maunder Minimum''. In: ''
Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
'' 294, No. 5549, (2001), 2149-2152, . * Shindell et al, ''Solar Cycle Variability, Ozone, and Climate''. In: ''
Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
'' 284, No. 5412, (1999), 305-308, . * Shindell et al, ''Simulation of recent northern winter climate trends by greenhouse-gas forcing''. In: ''
Nature Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are ...
'' 399, (1998), 452-455, . * Shindell et al, ''Increased polar stratospheric ozone losses and delayed eventual recovery owing to increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations''. In: ''
Nature Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are ...
'' 392, (1998), 589-592, .


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