Collaboration between the Degrees Modelling Fund (DMF) research teams and experienced SRM modelling scientists is a crucial part of the DMF research process. While the DMF scientists are experts in modelling the local impacts of climate change, few have worked on SRM before. Each team is paired up with at least one SRM modelling expert and they work together remotely over the duration of the project. Research collaborators volunteer their time and the relationship is intended to be mutually beneficial to both collaborator and the DMF team.

Dr Pete Irvine
University College London

Prof. Ben Kravitz
Indiana University

Dr Doug McMartin
Cornell University & California Institute of Technology

Prof. John Moore
Beijing Normal University & University of Lapland, Finland

Dr Helene Muri
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Prof. Alan Robock
Rutgers University
Alan Robock is a Distinguished Professor of climate science in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1970 with a B.A. in Meteorology, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an S.M. in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1977, both in Meteorology. Before graduate school, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. He was a professor at the University of Maryland, 1977-1997, and the State Climatologist of Maryland, 1991-1997, before coming to Rutgers in 1998. Prof. Robock has published more than 460 articles on his research in the area of climate change, including more than 280 peer-reviewed papers. His areas of expertise include climate intervention (also called geoengineering), climatic effects of nuclear war, effects of volcanic eruptions on climate, and soil moisture. Along with Ben Kravitz, he founded the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project, which has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles in the past decade and continues to support standardized model simulations and annual workshops. Prof. Robock serves as Associate Editor of Reviews of Geophysics, the most highly-cited journal in the Earth Sciences. His honors include being a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society (AMS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a recipient of the AMS Jule Charney Medal. Prof. Robock was a Lead Author of the recent Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007). For more information, visit http://people.envsci.rutgers.edu/robock/

Dr Simone Tilmes
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Dr Simone Tilmes is a Project Scientist III at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the co-chair for the Community Earth System Model (CESM) chemistry-climate working group. Her scientific interests cover the understanding and evaluation of chemical, aerosol and dynamical processes in chemistry-climate models. She has investigated past, present and future evolutions of the ozone hole in both hemispheres based on models and observations. Further research includes interactions in tropospheric chemistry, aerosols, air quality, long-range transport of pollutants, and tropospheric ozone. She is also studying the impact of climate interventions on the Earth’s climate system, the hydrological cycle, sea-ice, and the impact of solar radiation management on dynamics and chemistry in both the troposphere and the stratosphere. Together with a team of scientists, she produced the first stratospheric aerosol geoengineering large ensemble (GLENS) using the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM), as well as similar simulations with WACCM6, which has been made available to the community in order to investigate the benefits, side effects and risks of stratospheric aerosol interventions.

Dr Mari Tye
National Center for Atmospheric Research

Dr Daniele Visioni
Cornell University

Dr Lili Xia
Rutgers University