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Dr. Michael H. Glantz, (Mickey) is a Senior Scientist and was the
Director of the Environmental and Societal Impacts
Group, a program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for 17 years. When he first came to NCAR in 1974, he looked quite
different. He is interested in how climate affects society and how society affects climate, especially in how the interaction between climate anomalies and human activities affect quality of life issues.
Dr.Glantz has been involved in various early warning projects since the mid-1970s. In 1976, he edited a book on
The Politics of Natural Disaster: The Case of the Sahel
Drought, which deals with ways to understand and avert future drought-related disasters. In 1987, Drought and Hunger in Africa: Denying Famine a Future was published based on a colloquium he organized in 1985. The book contains solutions proposed by experts in a broad range of disciplines for dealing with drought, famine, and the agrarian crisis in Africa. |
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In late October 1993, he organized the first Usable Science workshop,
"Food Security, Early Warning, and El Nino" in Budapest, Hungary. This workshop brought together people with a variety of climate-related research and research application interests in order to identify the potential value of early warning systems designed specifically to detect impending severe food shortages and famines. Glantz is the author of numerous articles relating to how climate affects society, especially in developing countries and, conversely, how society affects climate. For more information on Dr. Glantz and his other research interests, please see his website at
www.esig.ucar.edu/HP_mickey.html |
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Climate
Affairs: A Primer, an innovative book written by Mickey, is published by Island Press. This book outlines a new approach to understanding the interactions among climate, society, and the environment. (15 May 2003) |
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La Niña and Its
Impacts: Facts and Speculation, edited by Mickey, has been released by UN University Press. This book is based on a meeting of researchers, forecasters, and users of La Niña forecasts held in July 1998. (11 September 2002) |
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A meeting on
Water, Climate, and Development Issues in the Amudarya Basin website is on line and contains recommendations for the area based on workshop deliberations. The meeting was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 18-19 June 2002. (22 July 2002) |
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The
Climate Affairs website has been expanded with the addition of more information about the concept, as well as links to two workshops that have been held on Climate Affairs during 2002. (21 March 2002) |
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On 22 January 2002, Boulder's Daily Camera honored Mickey with the 2002 Award for Environment. See more about this honor at
2002_pacesetter.html. (1 February 2002) |
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On 15 May 1999, a 19-month study was launched on the impacts of the 1997-98 El Niño event on 15 countries. This study was a partnership among UN agencies in addition to ESIG, the WMO and the IDNDR. See the website at
www.esig.ucar.edu/un/. A summary of the results was placed on this website at the end of 2000, and a
book (with accompanying CD)
on the results was released in October 2001. (25 October 2001) |
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Currents of Change: El Nino and La Nina Impacts on Climate and Society was released in October 2000, a comprehensive update of the 1996 edition of the book. This book explains in simple terms what El Niño and La Niño are, how their effects might be forecasted, and the far-reaching impacts the ENSO cycle has on all of us. (1 February 2001) |
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Global Environmental Problems in the Caspian
Region. The Caspian region is politically interesting and sensitive for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the most prominent reason relates to its large-scale oil reserves that are coveted by many nations. It is also of great interest to environmental groups concerned about the impacts of oil exploration on the sea and its biological resources. This paper explores many of these sensitive issues. (31 March 2000) |
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ESIG publishes the ENSO Signal
and the
Network Newsletter four times a year, with financial support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Global Programs. Glantz is the Editor of both of these publications. They are available both in hard copy and electronic versions. (18 January 2000) |
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Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development in the Aral Sea Basin This multidisciplinary book is the first to comprehensively describe the slow onset of low-grade but incremental changes which affected the Aral Sea Basin. Edited by Michael H. Glantz. (30 March 1999) |
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Mickey organized the La Niña
Summit. A workshop supported by the United Nations University,
UNEP, NSF, and NCAR, it reviewed the causes and consequences of cold events. The workshop was held in Boulder, Colorado, USA 15-17 July 1998, and led to the release in 2002 of a
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He organized a Summer Colloquium on A Systems Approach to El
Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO): Oceanic, Atmospheric, Societal, Environmental, and Policy Perspectives which was held between 20 July and 1 August 1997 in Boulder, Colorado. |
His research relates to:
· African drought; desertification; food production problems and prospects;
· Societal impacts of climate anomalies related to El Niño events; the use of El Niño-related teleconnections to forecast these impacts;
· Developing methods of forecasting possible societal responses to the regional impacts of climate change; and
· The use of climate-related information for economic development.
He has also coordinated joint research in the Central Asian Republics of the former Soviet Union, with a special interest in the Aral Sea basin. In 1999, Cambridge University Press published a book he edited on "Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development in the Aral Sea Basin" (see above).
He has edited several books and is the author of numerous articles on issues related to climate, environment, and policy. He organizes multidisciplinary, multinational workshops on climate-related issues. Dr Glantz used to write a column for the Boulder Planet. He maintains those columns and new ones on the
"Fragilecologies" web site. Prior to that, he wrote a biweekly newspaper column, "Environmental Minute," for the Boulder Daily Camera.
Other books that Dr. Glantz has published are:
· Scientific, Environmental, and Political Issues in the Circum-Caspian Region (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997)
· Drought Follows the Plow: Cultivating Marginal Areas (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
· The Role of Regional Organizations in the Context of Climate Change (Springer-Verlag, 1994)
· Climate Variability, Climate Change and Fisheries (Cambridge University Press, 1992)
· ENSO Teleconnections Linking Worldwide Climate Anomalies: Scientific Basis and Societal Impact (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
· Societal Responses to Regional Climate Change: Forecasting by Analogy (Westview Press, 1988)
· Drought and Hunger in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 1987 and 1988)
Environmental and Societal Impacts Group
National Center for Atmospheric Research
www.esig.ucar.edu/HP_mickey.html
PO Box 3000
Boulder, Colorado USA 80307
Tel: 303-497-8119; Fax: 303-497-8125 |
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