Curriculum Vitae

Michael E. Mann

University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences

Charlottesville, VA 22903

Tel: (804) 924-7770; FAX (804) 982-2137; email: mann@virginia.edu

homepage: www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.html

Personal

Date of Birth: 28 December 1965

Place of Birth: Amherst, Massachusetts

Education

1998 Ph.D. Yale University, Department of Geology & Geophysics

1993 M.Phil.Yale University, Department of Geology & Geophysics

1991 M.Phil.Yale University, Department of Physics

1991 M.S. Yale University, Department of Physics

1989 A.B. (double), University of California-Berkeley, Applied Math, Physics (Honors)

Honors and Awards

1998 Council of Graduate Schools' Distinguished Dissertation Award, nominated

1997 Phillip M. Orville Prize for outstanding dissertation in the earth sciences, Yale University

1996 Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship (DOE)

1989 Josiah Willard Gibbs Prize for outstanding research and scholarship in Physics, Yale University

Professional Experience (1996-present)

8/99- Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences

1998-99 Research Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Department of Geosciences

1997-98 Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Department of Geosciences

1996-98 Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellow (DOE)

Courses Taught

EVSC 350 Introduction to the Atmosphere and Weather

EVAT 554 Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics

EVEC 793 Statistical Climatology

Students Advised (1996-present)

Kaycie Billmark, M.S. candidate: masters thesis committee, University of Virginia, Fall '99

Dan Druckenbrod, M.S. candidate: masters thesis committee, University of Virginia, Fall '99

Anne Waple, Ph.D. candidate: co-adviser and committee member, University of Massachusetts, 1997-1998.

Caspar Ammann, Ph.D. candidate: co-adviser, University of Massachusetts, 1998-1999

Bo-Min Sun, Ph.D. candidate: comittee member, University of Massachusetts, 1998-1999.

Research Interests

(1) Climate signal detection and climate change attribution; (2) Statistical and time series analysis methods in the physical sciences; (3) High-resolution paleoclimate reconstruction; (4) Study of internal variability in coupled ocean-atmosphere models; (5) Climate model/data intercomparison; (6) Climate forecasting; (7) Simplified coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling

Funded Proposals

1999-2002 Multiproxy Climate Reconstruction: Extension in Space and Time, and Model/Data Intercomparison, NOAA-Earth Systems History (Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann, Affiliated Investigators: R.S. Bradley, M.K. Hughes)

1998-2000 Validation of Decadal-to-Multi-century climate predictions, DOE (Principal Investigator: R.S. Bradley; Affiliated Investigators: H.F. Diaz,, M.E. Mann)

1998-2000 The changing seasons? Detecting and understanding climatic change, NSF-Hydrological Science (Principal Investigators: U. Lall, M.E. Mann, B. Rajagopalan, M. Cane)

1996-1999 Patterns of Organised Climatic Variability: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Globally Distributed Climate Proxy Records and Long-term Model Integrations, NSF-Earth Systems History (Principal Investigator: R.S. Bradley; Affiliated Investigators: M.E. Mann, M.K. Hughes)

1996-1998 Investigation of Patterns of Organized Large-Scale Climatic Variability During the Last Millennium, DOE, Alexander Hollaender Postdoctoral Fellowship (M.E. Mann)

Professional Activities

2000- Member of Working Group, International PAGES/CLIVAR

2000- Panel member, NOAA Climate Change Data and Detection Program

2000- Editor, Journal of Climate

2000 Co-convener (w/ J. Jouzel, P.Jones), special session `` Climate of the past millennium", 25th General Assembly, European Geophysical Society

1999- Scientific adviser to U.S. Government (White House OSTP) on climate change

1999 Co-convener (w/ J. Jouzel), special session ``Data and model studies of climate changes over the last millennium, 24th General Assembly, European Geophysical Society

1999- Invited adviser, NOAA Global Change and Climate Panel, Boulder, CO

1999 Guest editor, special issue of Climatic Change, in review

1999 Co-convener (w/ J. Overpeck), PAGES/CLIVAR workshop on multiproxy climate reconstruction, Boulder, CO

1998- Lead author, Chapter 2, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Third Assessment Report

1998- Contributing author, Chapters 7,8,12, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Third Assessment Report

1997 Co-convener (w/ E. Cook, H. Pollack, D. Chapman) , theme session ``Multiproxy Climate Reconstruction…", Annual Fall meeting, American Geophysical Union

Refereed Publications

Other Publications

Invited Lectures & Workshops

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