Will Steffen

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Will Steffen (2010)

William L. "Will" Steffen (* 1947 ) is a climate scientist . His research contributed significantly to the understanding of planetary boundaries and in particular climate change . He plays an important role in the discussion about the geological age of the Anthropocene .

Life

Steffen completed a BSc in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri . He earned MSc (1972) and PhD (1975) degrees in chemistry from the University of Florida . Steffen was the head of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) in Stockholm from 1998 to 2004 and previously was the head of the IGBP project "Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems". Steffen was the first director of the Climate Change Institute at the Australian National University (ANU) from 2008 to 2012 . Previously, he was director of the Fenner School of Environment and Society at ANU. From 2004 to 2011 he was a scientific advisor to the Climate Change Division of the AustralianGovernment active. From 2011 to 2013 he was Climate Commissioner at the Australian Government's Climate Commission.

Act

Steffen made a name for himself internationally in the areas of sustainability and earth system science. He is particularly concerned with the science of climate change, the approaches to adapting to climate change in land systems, the inclusion of human processes in the modeling and analysis of the earth system, and the history and future of the relationship between humans and the rest of nature. Most recently he dealt with the danger of a greenhouse earth . Steffen also had a say in the documentary Our Planet .

Publications (selection)

credentials

  1. ↑ worldcat
  2. ^ Lib. Of Congress
  3. ↑ Steffen, W. et al. (2015) Planetary Boundaries: Guiding Human Development on a Changing Planet. Science, vol. 347, no. 6223. doi: 10.1126 / science.1259855
  4. ^ A b Stockholm Resilience Center. Will Steffen. https://www.stockholmresilience.org/contact-us/staff/2009-08-24-steffen.html
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Australian National University. Professor Will Steffen. http://climate.anu.edu.au/about-us/people/will-steffen
  6. ↑ Steffen, W. et al. (2018) Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene. PNAS, vol. 115, no. 33, pp. 8252-8259. doi: 10.1073 / pnas.1810141115
personal data
SURNAME Steffen, Will
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steffen, William L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Climate scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947