Richard Moss

Dr. Moss is a Senior Staff Scientist with the Pacific Northwest National Lab’s (PNNL) Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland and a Visiting Senior Research Scientist at Maryland's Earth Systems Science Interdisciplinary Center. His research interests include development and use of scenarios, characterization and communication of uncertainty, and adaptation and vulnerability to climate change. He chairs the US National Academy of Science's standing committee on the "human dimensions" of global environmental change and serves on the editorial board of Climatic Change. Dr. Moss is active in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and served as a review editor for the Fifth Assessment Report. Previously, he served as Director of the Office of the US Global Change Research Program/Climate Change Science Program (2000-06), Head of Technical Support Unit for the IPCC impacts, adaptation, and mitigation working group (1993-99), and on the faculty of Princeton University (1989-91). He also served as Vice President/Managing Director for Climate Change at WWF and Senior Director for Energy and Climate at the U.N. Foundation.