Reindeer Peoples' Ambassadors

Dr. Robert Corell and Dr. Nancy Maynard

Two of the highlights in Oslo was that Dr. Robert Corell and Dr. Nancy Maynard held lectures, specifically for the ambassadors. We are so grateful for their time and for the engagement they demonstrated for our project. What we particularly admire is their commitment to the Saami people and our life situations.
Thanks Nancy og Bob!

Robert W. Corell is an American climate scientist, Director of the Global Change Program at the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment and a Senior Policy Fellow at the Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society. He is also the Senior Science Advisor to ManyOne Networks, and Chair of the Board of the Digital Universe Foundation. He currently serves as the Chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment; an international assessment of the impacts of climate variability, change, and ultraviolet increases in the Arctic Region.2] Corell was previously a Senior Research Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University which began in January 2000. Prior to January 2000, he was Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF) where he had oversight for the Atmospheric, Earth, and Ocean Sciences and the global change programs of the NSF. While at the NSF, he served as the Chair of the National Science and Technology Council's committee that has oversight of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and was Chair of the international committee of government agencies funding global change research. Further, he served as Chair and principal U.S. delegate to many international climate bodies.[3] Prior to joining the NSF, he was a professor and academic administrator at the University of New Hampshire. Corell is an oceanographer and engineer. He received his Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees at the Case Western Reserve University and MIT. He has held appointments at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Washington, and Case Western Reserve University.[4] Corell's research involves both science of climate change and the interface between science and public policy, including sustainable development. He is leading a research project on vulnerability assessment, with a focus on indigenous Arctic communities.

Dr. Nancy Maynard is a biological oceanographer with a wide breadth of scientific experience, ranging from science policy in the White House to management of large interdisciplinary science programs to basic oceanographic research at sea to the application of science to societal issues. Presently Associate Director for Environment and Health at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), she has held scientific leadership positions in both science and applications at NASA Earth Sciences (at HQ and GSFC) and the National Research Council (NRC) Ocean Studies Board, and she served over 5 years in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), including 4.5 years (1989-1993) as Assistant Director for the Environment. In the application of science to society for sustainability, Maynard has worked extensively to bring indigenous traditional and local knowledge together with contemporary scientific knowledge to address climate and environment issues for decision-making and management. She was responsible for the inclusion of the indigenous perspective (Native Peoples/Native Homelands) in the U.S. National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts. Most recently, she is leading a new NASA study, "Reindeer Mapper," to bring indigenous traditional knowledge together with scientific data and information to address health and sustainability issues in Northern Russian reindeer husbandry resulting from changes in climate, environment, weather, society, land use, and pollution.

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