Rosina M. Bierbaum

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Rosina Marie Bierbaum (born September 30, 1952 ) is an ecologist at the University of Michigan and a former environmental politician. She is an expert at the interface between the environment, science and politics.

Life

Bierbaum grew up in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania . Influenced by the writings of Rachel Carson , she became interested in environmental issues at an early age and earned a Bachelor of Biology and a Bachelor in English Literature from Boston College in 1974, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1985. in ecology and evolution . Her dissertation was entitled The Physiological Consequences of Harboring a Symbiont: The Effect of Pea Crabs (Pinnotheres maculatus) on Mussels (Mytilus edulis) .

Bierbaum worked in various institutions of the US government , most recently as head of the environmental protection department in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), a sub-agency of the Executive Office . She served in the Obama administration as a member of the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and as an adviser to the World Bank on issues relating to adaptation to global warming . Bierbaum was co-chairman in the preparation of the 2010 World Development Report of the World Bank, Development and Climate Change and the report Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable to the Commission on Sustainable Development . She was the Dean of the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment , where she established five new Masters programs. Here and at the University of Maryland, College Park , she holds a professorship (as of 2020).

Rosina Bierbaum is (as of 2020) Chairwoman of the Science and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environmental Facility , an institution in the United Nations Environment Program that develops environmental agreements, guidelines and criteria. From 2018 to 2022 she was on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Awards (selection)

Web links

Commons : Rosina Bierbaum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Organization and Governance. In: aaas.org. American Association for the Advancement of Science , accessed April 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Rosina Bierbaum. In: agu.org. American Geophysical Union , accessed April 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Rosina M. Bierbaum. In: amacad.org. American Academy of Arts and Sciences , March 2016, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Rosina Bierbaum. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed April 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bierbaum, Rosina M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bierbaum, Rosina; Bierbaum, Rosina Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ecologist and environmental politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1952