Jonathan Taylor Overpeck is an American climate scientist. [1] Since 2017, he has served as the Samuel A. Graham Dean of the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability. [2] Overpeck has authored more than 220 scientific publications. In 2007, he was a coordinating lead author on a report for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. [3]
Overpeck obtained an undergraduate degree in geology from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. [4] He has an MSc and PhD in Geological Sciences (1981 and 1985) from Brown University in Rhode Island and then became a Post-doctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University jointly with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. [5]
Prior to joining the University of Michigan, Overpeck was faculty at the University of Arizona, where he was the director of Institute for the Study of Planet Earth. [1] [3] He became the Samuel A. Graham Dean of the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability in 2017. [2] He has been active in university, [6] city [7] and state [8] efforts to mitigate climate change. In 2015, Overpeck was elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union. [9]
{{
cite web}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)