Alan Robock, Ph.D., is a faculty member in the Department of Environmental Sciences, and member of the Meteorology Undergraduate Program and the Atmospheric Science Graduate Program.
Robock's research involves many aspects of climate change, including global warming, geoengineering, nuclear winter, the effects of volcanic eruptions on climate, soil moisture, and the impacts of climate change.
Prof. Robock has published more than 500 articles on his research in the area of climate change, including more than 285 peer-reviewed papers. He serves as Editor of Reviews of Geophysics, the most highly-cited journal in the Earth Sciences. His honors include being 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 (awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007). In 2017 the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its groundbreaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons” based partly on the work of Prof. Robock. In 2022, Prof. Robock was a winner of the Future of Life Award, “For reducing the risk of nuclear war by developing and popularizing the science of nuclear winter.”
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