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Allen Solomon received
his Ph.D. in Botany (Plant Ecology) from Rutgers University. He was on
the faculty of the University of Arizona Department of Geosciences, after
which he took a position as Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
from 1976-1987, where his research focused on global carbon
cycle issues and the responses of forests to changing climate and CO2.
After being a Leader
on the Biosphere Dynamics Project at the International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, and the Co-Director
of the Lake Superior Ecosystems Research Center and Professor at Michigan
Technological University, Allen took a position at the Environmental Protection
Agency in 1992. His duties there as Global Research Ecologist include
the evaluation and implementation of research on global ecological change,
and providing expertise on terrestrial carbon cycle questions to the
Environmental Protection Agency and other executive and legislative agencies. From 2000-2001 he was a
Senior Policy analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology
Policy, Washington, D.C. In this capacity, he was an author on the most
recent assessment of global climate change published by the
Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change.
Allen has published
77 scientific papers focusing on the ecological interactions between vegetation
and climate, often incorporating the effects of atmospheric CO2.
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