Thomas Stocker

Thomas Stocker at a lecture in 2007

Thomas F. Stocker (born July 1, 1959 in Zurich ) is a Swiss climate researcher .

Career

In 1987 he completed his studies in environmental physics at the ETH Zurich with a doctorate . He then worked at University College London , McGill University and Columbia University . Since 1993 he has been a professor at the Physics Institute of the University of Bern , where he heads the Department of Climate and Environmental Physics. His team is concerned with modeling past and future climate changes , for which, among other things, ice cores from the Antarctic and Greenland are used.

Since 1998 he has been involved in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In 2008 he became co-chair of IPCC Working Group I (Scientific Principles), an office which he will hold until September 2015. Together with Working Group II, he presented the Special Report for Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) in 2012 , in which the relationship between global warming and extreme weather events was examined. In February 2015, the Swiss Federal Council proposed Stocker as the successor to Rajendra Pachauri for the IPCC chairmanship. However, Hoesung Lee was elected .

Stocker is a member of the Academia Europaea and the American Meteorological Society as well as a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz . In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and in 2016 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2019 Thomas F. Stocker became a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

In 1993 he was awarded the National Latsis Prize and in 2009 the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union . For 2017 he was awarded the Marcel Benoist Prize .

Stocker is married, has two grown daughters and lives in Bern.

Fonts

• with Columban Hutter: Topographic waves in channels and lakes on the f-plane. Springer, Berlin [a. a.] 1987, ISBN 3-540-17623-3
• with Markus Leuenberger, Silvio Borella, Matthias Saurer, Rolf Siegwolf, Fritz Schweingruber & Rainer Matyssek: Stable isotopes in tree rings as climate and stress indicators. vdf Hochschulverlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-7281-2639-X
• with Richard B. Alley , Jochem Marotzke , William Nordhaus , Jonathan Overpeck, Dorothy Peteet, Roger Pielke jr. , Raymond Pierrehumbert, Peter Rhines, Lynne Talley & J. Michael Wallace: Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises . The National Academies Press, 2002, ISBN 0-309-07434-7
• Introduction to climate modeling. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-00772-9

literature

• Thomas Stocker in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

TV

• Show «Schawinski». Roger Schawinski in conversation with Thomas Stocker. Video in: SRF 1 , August 27, 2018 ( online ) (28 min, Swiss German ).
• Simon Christen: The climate researcher. In: Reporter , SRF 1, September 2, 2018 (23 min, partly in Swiss German).

Web links

• Member Post by Thomas F. Stocker at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Thomas Stocker on the website of the University of Bern
• Personal website
• «Many people are not aware that our way of life depends on the ecosystem» , interview with Gabriela Neuhaus on the website of the Directorate for Development and Cooperation , 2009.
• Markus Hofmann: The climate researcher with the thick skin. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from November 1, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communication : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Swiss climate researchers should play a leading role . June 18, 2008
2. ↑ Martin Läubli: Interview: "Thousands of independent observations prove that" . In: Tages-Anzeiger . September 24, 2013
3. ^ IPCC Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability): SREX Contributors
4. ↑ Stefan Schmitt: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: “Extreme weather conditions cannot be averaged globally” . In: The time . March 29, 2012 (interview)
5. ↑ Thomas Stocker is defeated in the election as head of the IPCC , Neue Zürcher Zeitung of October 6, 2015.
6. ^ Member entry by Thomas Stocker at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on November 6, 2017
7. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences : Newly Elected Fellows. In: amacad.org. Retrieved April 22, 2016 . 
8. ^ National Latsis Prize. In: snf.ch. Retrieved August 28, 2018 . 
9. ↑ European Geosciences Union: Awards & Medals: Hans Oeschger Medal 2009 - Thomas Stocker
10. ↑ Prof. Dr. Thomas Stocker. (PDF, 2017).