Facing Climate Change Together - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Catherine Gautier focuses her research in climate change science on the modeling and observation of cloud and aerosol effects on climate with an emphasis on absorbing aerosols (mineral and soot). She is also involved in educational aspects of climate change science and policy. Gautier has been a professor in the Geography Department at UC Santa Barbara since 1990, and directed the Institute for Computational Earth System Science from 1996 to 2002.

Jean-Louis Fellous joined the French space agency, CNES, in 1982 as program manager of the U.S.-French Topex/Poseidon oceanography satellite. He has headed the Earth Observation Programs at CNES since 1998 and was director for Ocean Research at Ifremer, the French ocean research institute, from 2001 until 2005. Fellous then worked with the European Space Agency as coordinator of Earth observation satellite programs related to climate, and was the Executive Officer of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS). He is a co-president of the Joint Technical Commission on Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM). He now works as the Executive Director of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR).