Gunter Weller CV

Dr. Gunter E. Weller

Professor of Geophysics Emeritus

EDUCATION

Diploma Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, Aeronautical Engineering, 1956
B. Sc. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Physics, 1962
M. Sc. University of Melbourne, Meteorology, 1964 (Honors)
Ph. D. University of Melbourne, Meteorology/Glaciology, 1968

PRESENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Director, Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research, University of Alaska Fairbanks, March 1990-present
Director, NOAA-UAF Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR), University of Alaska Fairbanks, May 1994-present
Professor of Geophysics Emeritus, May 1997-present
Executive Director, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Secretariat (Arctic Council),
University of Alaska Fairbanks, June 2000-present

PAST POSITIONS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Experimental Officer, Weapons Research Establishment, Australia, 1957-58
Meteorologist, Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, Australia, 1959-60
Meteorologist in Charge, Mawson Station, Antarctica, 1961
Research Assistant, Meteorology Department, University of Melbourne, 1962-63
Glaciologist, Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions, January 1964- June 1967 (Mawson Station, Antarctica, 1965)
Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, July 1967-June 1968 (Plateau Station, Antarctica)
Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, July 1968-June 1970
Associate Professor, Geophysical Institute, July 1970-June 1973
Program Manager, Polar Meteorology, Office of Polar Programs, National Science
Foundation, Washington, DC, May 1972-June 1974 (on leave from UA)
Professor of Geophysics, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, July 1973- Feb. 1997
Acting Assistant Director, Geophysical Institute, July 1974-December 1974
Project Manager, NOAA Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program, Arctic Project Office, University of Alaska, Jan. 1975-Sept.1982
Associate Director for Planning, Geophysical Institute, Jan.1978-Dec. 1983
Deputy Director and Assistant Research Director, Meteorology and Glaciology,
Geophysical Institute, January 1984-August 1986
Project Director, NASA-University of Alaska "Alaska SAR Facility", University of Alaska, September 1986-December 1993
Deputy Director, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, June 1990-Feb. 1997
Director, Science Management Office, NSF ARCSS-LAII: Land-Atmosphere-Ice
Interactions Studies, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Jan. 1994-Aug. 1999

MAJOR SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES

National:
Polar Research Board, National Research Council, 1975-79, 1984-90
(Chairman of the Board, 1985-90)
Founding Chairman, Committee on Polar Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, 1981-83
Climate Research Committee, National Research Council, 1981-84
Executive Secretary, AAAS Arctic Division, 1982-93, (president 1973-74)
Chairman, ERS-1 SAR Sea Ice Study Team, NASA, 1982-85
Board of Trustees, Universities Space Research Association, 1983-84
Polar Oceans Climate Studies Panel, National Research Council, 1984-87
Executive Committee, NOAA Panel on Climate and Global Change, 1987-90
Board on Global Change, National Research Council, 1991-94

International:
President, International Commission on Polar Meteorology, IUGG, 1980-83
Chairman, IGBP Steering Committee, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1988-92
Chairman, Working Group on Global Change, International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), 1990-97
Project Leader, Bering Sea Impacts Study (BESIS), IASC, 1994-2000
Group of Specialists on Global Change and the Antarctic (GLOCHANT), SCAR, 1997-present

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Geophysical Union
American Meteorological Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
Arctic Institute of North America, Fellow
International Glaciological Society

HONORS

Polar Medal, awarded by the Commonwealth of Australia, 1969
Names of geographic features: Mt. Weller, 67oS, 51oE, Antarctica (Australia)
Weller Bank, 71oN, 151oE, Arctic Ocean (US)
Edith Bullock Prize for Excellence, University of Alaska, 1993
Award for International Scientific Cooperation, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, 1999

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

More than 100 publications, most of them in refereed journals, on meteorology, glaciology, climate and global change, satellite remote sensing, and resource and environmental problems in the polar regions. The most recent papers include:

Weller, G., 1998. Regional impacts of climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic.Annals of Glaciology, 27, 543-552
Weller, G., 1998-1999. Several encyclopedia articles: Antarctica; Arctic; Glaciers; Icebergs; Permafrost; Tundra Climate; Arctic Climate, in Encycl. of Earth System Science; Encycl. of Climate and Weather; Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia; McGraw-Hill Encycl. of Science and Technology.
Weller, G., and M. Lange, eds.,1999. Impacts of global climate change in the Arctic regions. Report from a Workshop on the Impacts of Global Climate Change, 25-26 April 1999, Tromsø, Norway. International Arctic Science Committee, Oslo, 59 pp.
Weller, G., P. Anderson and B. Wang, eds., 1999. Preparing for a Changing Climate: The Potential Consequences of Climate Change and Variability in Alaska. A Report of the Alaska Regional Assessment Group for the U. S. Global Change Research Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 42 pp.
Weller, G., 2000. The weather and climate of the Arctic. In: The Arctic-A Guide to Research in the Natural and Social Sciences, ed. M. Nuttall and T. Callaghan, Harwood Academic Press, 143-160.
Weller, G., 2000. Climate change and its impacts on the arctic environment. In: Impacts of changes in sea ice and other environmental parameters in the Arctic (Ed. Henry Huntington), Report of the Marine Mammal Commission Workshop, Girdwood, Alaska 15-17 February 2000, 40-47.
Weller, G., 2001. Climate change and its impacts on the arctic environment. Memoirs of the National Institute for Polar Research, Tokyo, Special Issue No. 54, 143-151.
Weller, G., 2001. Impacts of climate change in the Arctic. Proceedings of Second Wadati Conference, Tsukuba, Japan, 155-155.
Weller, G., 2001. Impacts of climate change in the Arctic. Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Sydney, Australia, July 9-13 2001.
Weller, G., 2001. Climate; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Global Warming; Impacts of Climate Change; Microclimates; Urban Climates. Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, published by John Wiley (in press).
Weller, G., 2001. Climate change and cold regions engineering. In: Thermal Design Considerations in Frozen Ground Engineering. Monograph, American Society of Civil Engineers (in press).

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