BIO

Chris Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology and Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University. Field’s research emphasizes field and laboratory studies of impacts of climate change, from the molecular to the global scale. He is co-chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which led the effort on the IPCC Special Report on “Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation”  (2012) and Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2014).  Field’s research has been recognized with several American and international awards, including the Max Planck Research Award and the Roger Revelle Medal, and with election to learned societies, including the US National Academy of Sciences (2001). Field received his PhD from Stanford in 1981 and has been at the Carnegie Institution for Science since 1984.

Katie Mach is Co-Director of Science for Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Her work supports the preparation of major assessment reports, with an emphasis on accurate, policy-relevant summaries.  Recent reports include the “Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation” (2012) and “Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability: Working Group II Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report or the IPCC”. Mach’s past research has involved marine biomechanics and ecophysiology and impacts of climate change for ocean ecosystems. Her current research addresses methods of assessment and treatment of uncertainties and risk in climate change assessments and decisionmaking.  Mach received her PhD from Stanford University (2010) and was a post-doctoral researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science (2010-2011).