Michael H. Glantz
Biography
Michael H. Glantz is currently (2013) Director of the Consortium for Capacity Building. He was previously a Senior Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), where he served as the Head of the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG). He has been the only Senior Scientist from the social sciences in NCAR's 50-year history. He served as NCAR's Director of the Center for Capacity Building, an innovative program focused on, but not limited to, undergraduate educators and students, until August 2008. His research and applications activities center on how climate, water, and weather affect society as well as how society affects climate. His research also relates to African drought and desertification; food production problems and prospects; societal impacts of climate anomalies related to El Niño and La Niña events, climate variability and change; to the development of methods of forecasting possible societal responses to the regional impacts of climate variability and change; and the use of climate-related information for economic development. He has coordinated joint research in the Central Asian Republics of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Dr. Glantz, who was honored with the United Nations Environment Program's Global 500 Award in 1990, has authored or edited over 30 multidisciplinary books on climate and development- related issues.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG)
Arrangement is primarily by Chronological order within each folder and Alphabetically by folder within each series. The collection is housed in 2 boxes and is arranged into 4 main series. Series 1: Denver Regional Air Quality Management Study (DRAQMS), 1977, 1979-2005, undated Series 2: NCAR/UCAR Committees, 1959, 1991-2001 Series 3: Publications, 1989 Series 4: Workshops, 1997