Oregon State University Climate Change Research Oral History Collection, 2017-2018

Dominique Bachelet (b. 1957) is an associate professor in OSU's Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering. Bachelet came to Corvallis in 1988 to work as a qualitative ecologist with ManTech Environmental Technologies, Inc. She has been a member of the OSU faculty since 1989, during which time she has helped to develop vegetation and data basin models including the MC1 model, which simulates potential vegetation changes that might arise in different climate change scenarios.

Jeff Bethel (b. 1974) is an associate professor in the School of Biological and Population Health Sciences who has been at OSU since 2011. Bethel's research focus is the assessment of health risks associated with climate change, a portfolio that has included investigations of disaster preparedness as well as the impacts of heat stress on agricultural workers.

Hilary Boudet (b. 1979) is an assistant professor of Sociology within OSU's School of Public Policy. At OSU since 2012, Boudet has conducted a series of studies on community responses to global warming and has investigated, in particular, collective attitudes toward fracking and extreme weather events.

Peter Clark (b. 1956) is a Distinguished Professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. A member of the OSU faculty since 1988, Clark's areas of focus include glacial history and ice sheets, as well as paleoclimatology, sea level rise, and abrupt climate change.

Jason Hanauska (b. 1989) is an undergraduate student majoring in Environmental Engineering at OSU and an active member of Engineers Without Borders, a group through which he has pursued projects that seek to expand access to clean drinking water.

William Jaeger (b. 1954) is a professor of Applied Economics and has been a faculty member at OSU since 2001. Long interested in issues of development in impoverished nations, Jaeger has analyzed the economic aspects of the biofuel industry; water and land use; and environmental taxation policies during his tenure at Oregon State.

Beverly Law (b. 1955) is a professor of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science within the OSU College of Forestry's Forest Ecosystems and Society department. Law earned her Ph.D. from OSU in 1993 and has been a member of the Oregon State faculty since 1995. During her career, Law has risen to the forefront of micrometeorology technology and has become a leader in developing national and international atmospheric monitoring networks, such as the AmeriFlux program.

Philip Mote (b. 1965) is the director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, which he has led since 2009, and is also an associate dean in the OSU College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. Since arriving at OSU, Mote has primarily focused on public outreach related to climate science. He has also conducted research on regional climate trends and has helped to promote interdisciplinary collaboration within the OSU community.

Peter Ruggiero (b. 1969) is a professor of Geology and Geophysics within the OSU College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, and has been a member of the OSU faculty since 2006. His primary research interest is coastal geomorphology and coastal hazards, through which he seeks to measure and interpret the impacts of climate change on coastal landscapes. He has also collaborated on interdisciplinary projects assisting coastal communities in the Pacific Northwest in their initiation of climate adaptation strategies.

Andreas Schmittner (b. 1966) is a professor in OSU's College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, his academic home since 2005. Schmittner studies the physics of oceans and atmospheres, as well as ocean ecology and biogeochemistry. He is also the author of an open source textbook titled Introduction to Climate Science and has engaged in a number of public outreach activities related to climate change.

Allen Thompson (b. 1969) is an associate professor of Philosophy in OSU's School of History, Philosophy and Religion. A member of the OSU faculty since 2011, Thompson has written on a number of topics within the field of environmental philosophy, wrestling in particular with issues of moral responsibility and social cost as they pertain to global warming.

Brandon Trelstad (b. 1979) is the sustainability officer at Oregon State University. Trelstad is also an OSU graduate who completed a double degree in Environmental Science and Political Science prior to a four-year stint as assistant to the OSU director of government relations. Trelstad helped to create the sustainability officer position at OSU and has served the university in this capacity since 2005.