Gautier Co-Edits Book on Climate Change

The French edition of “Comprendre le Changement Climatique” (“Understanding Climate Change”), co-edited by Jean-Louis Fellous and Catherine Gautier, was published this August by Odile Jacob. The English version will be published in about six months by Cambridge University Press. The book consists of contributions by 24 internationally known French and American experts on climate study. While all of them agree that climate change is accelerating, that it is stimulated by human activities, and that a better understanding of the nature, amplitude, and potential impact of climate change is both necessary and urgent, they all have notable differences in regard to the choices they feel must be made in the face of this situation. For more, see /index.php?op=aparaitres&cat=06&livre=2390&desc=2390#2390.

Professor Catherine Gautier has received several degrees from the University of Paris, including a BS in Physics and Chemistry in 1968, an MS in Physics in 1970, an MS in Geophysics in 1972, a PhD in Physics in 1976, and a Doctorat d’Etat in Physics and Meteorology in 1984. Her research interests include global radiation and water, El Niño, clouds, aerosol and climate, global remote sensing, and earth system science education. Dr. Gautier jointed the UCSB Department of Geography in 1990, she was the CEO of Planet Earth Science Inc. from 1994 to 2002, and she was the Director of the Institute of Computational Earth System Science from 1996 to 2002. For more, see . edu/esrg/Catherines_Homepage/Index1.html.