Vitae

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ADDRESS:
     National Center for Atmospheric Research
     P. O. Box 3000
     Boulder, Colorado 80307

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:
     8 November 1944, Christchurch, New Zealand

CURRENT OCCUPATION:
     Atmospheric Scientist; Senior scientist.
     Head, Climate Analysis Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research

MARRIED:
     21 March 1970 to Gail N. Trenberth (nee Thompson)

CHILDREN:
     2 daughters

EDUCATION:
     B.Sc. (HONS First Class): 1966, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
     Sc.D.: 1972, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:  

New Zealand Meteorological Service:
Meteorologist	1966-1977
Junior forecaster, research	1966-1968
M.I.T. graduate student	1968-1972
Research meteorologist	1972-1977
Superintendent - dynamic meteorology	1977
University of Illinois	1977-1984
Associate Professor of Meteorology	1977-1982
Professor of Meteorology	1982-1984
Adjunct Professor	1984-1989
Editor, Monthly Weather Review	1981-1987
Associate Editor, Monthly Weather Review	1986-1988
Associate Editor, J. Climate	1987-1995
Editor, Earth Interactions	1996-1998
National Center for Atmospheric Research	1984-
Scientist III	1984-1986
Senior Scientist	1986-
Leader, Empirical Studies Group	Jan 1987- Oct 1987
Leader, TOGA/CLIVAR activities	1986-
Head, Climate Analysis Section	Oct 1987-
Deputy Director, CGD	1991-1995

LISTED IN:

Who's Who in America
Who's Who in American Men and Women of Science
Who's Who in Technology Today
Who's Who in Technology
Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology
Who's Who in the West
Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America
New Zealand Who's Who
Who's who in Australasia Pacific nations
The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership
Men of Achievement
International Leaders in Achievement
5,000 Personalities of the World
American Men and Women of Science
Dictionary of International Biography
Honored member Strathmore's Who's Who Registry
2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century
The Twentieth Century Award for Achievement

AWARDS:

New Zealand Research Fellowship	1968-1972
NSF research grants	1978-1988
NOAA research grants	1986-
NASA research grants	1989-
Fellow American Meteorological Society	1985-
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science	1994-
Honorary Fellow Royal Society of New Zealand	1995-
NCAR Best Publication Award Nominee	1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994
NCAR Outstanding Education Performance Award Nominee	1996
Keuhnast annual lecture, Univ. Minnesota	15 Oct. 1998
American Meteorological Society Editors Award (J. Climate)	1989
Jule G. Charney award, American Meteorological Society	2000
Highly Cited Researcher (top 25 Geosciences), ISI.	May 2002
NCAR Distinguished Achievement Award	Dec 2003
Symons Lecture, Royal Meteorological Society, London	21 May 2004
Fellow American Geophysical Union	Dec 2006
American Geophysical Union Editor's citation for excellence in reviewing	May 2007
Massachusetts Marine Educators award of Certificate of Appreciation	May 2007
Nobel Laureate (shared) for Nobel Peace Prize 2007 (as part of IPCC)	Oct 2007
Yoshi Ogura Lecture, Univ. Illinois at Champaign-Urbana	30 Apr 2008
Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Green Professionals	15 Oct 2008

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Principal committees or panels

University of Illinois Senate, 1979-1984.
NCAR panel on NCAR Community Climate Model, 1980
NOAA-EPOCS (Equatorial Pacific Ocean Climate Studies) Advisory Panel, 1980-83.
NOAA-EPOCS council member, 1983-1985.
TOGA (NOAA, NSF) ad hoc proposal review panel, 6-8 February 1985
Science review of the Air Resources Laboratory of NOAA, 18-20 March 1987.
Member "NOAA Panel on Climate and Global Change", 1987-2006
     Member Executive Council 1991-2006.
     Renamed "NOAA Climate and Global Change Working Group" 2003-2005
     Renamed "NOAA Climate Working Group" 2005-2006.
Member "Climate Trends Panel", National Climate Program Office, September 1988-1990.
Member "NOAA Panel on Climate and Global Change Working Group on Data Management"
     1989-90.
Visiting lecturer; appointed to Graduate School, University of Colorado (May 1990).
     Member Ph.D. committee, 1990-1992. Also 1994-2000.
Member Appointments Review Group, NCAR, January 1992-95.
Member Technical Advisory Committee "Reporters' Guide to Science of Global and
     Climate Change", October 1992-1994
Council Delegate American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section on Atmospheric
     and Hydrospheric Sciences. (Elected) 1993-96
Member review panel, Mission to the Planet Earth (MTPE), NASA. June 15-18, 1993,
     Washington D.C.
Member Climate Modeling Analysis and Prediction (CMAP) Science Advisory Council. 1993-98.
Member Climate System Modeling Advisory Board, UCAR/NSF. 1998-2000.
UCAR Office for Interdisciplinary Earth Studies (OIES) Steering Committee, 1993-94.
Member Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) Scientific Advisory Committee,
     1994-99. Chair 1995, 1998-99.
Member of drafting group to define the International Research Institute for seasonal to interannual
     climate prediction Network Consultative Group (INCG). 1997.
Member NOAA Council on Long-term Monitoring, 1998-2003; reconstituted new name NOAA
     Climate Monitoring Working Group 2003-05.
Member review panel for NCEP Climate Prediction Center. 1997-98.
Member Scientific Steering Committee for 20th anniversary of the US-China bilateral workshop
     and symposium. 1999.
Member NOAA Climate Observing System Council. 1999-
Earth and Sky Radio Science advisor, 1999- .
Member NOAA Science Advisory Board Panel on Strategies for Climate Monitoring, 2000-01.
Member NOAA Science Advisory Panel for the Climate Change Data Detection (CCDD) program.
     2001- .
Member Research Advisory Executive Committee for The Climate Report. Maryam Golnaraghi
     Editor. June 2001-03.
Lead author, with Tom Spence, on "Climate Observing System" for the Presidential Climate Change Research Initiative, August 2001.
Member committee to decide awardee of Latsis Prize (Europe). 2001.
Chairman, Byrd Polar Research Center External Review Team, 31 October, 1 November 2002,
     Columbus Ohio.
Member ad hoc UCAR panel workshop on "Integrated Earth System Observations", Smithsonian
     Inst. Washington D.C. 12-15 Aug, 2003.
Member organizing committee for the Workshop on Ongoing Analysis of the Climate System,
     18-20 August 2003, Boulder, CO.
Member Climate Change Science Program reanalysis implementation plan working group 2004.
Member ad hoc NOAA working group on paleoclimate, 2003.
Member External Advisory Committee for Atmospheric Technology Division, NCAR 2004-05.
Member US Interagency Committee on Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) 2004
Member NASA CERES Climate Model and Analysis Advisory Group 2003-
Member American Geophysical Union Revelle Medal Committee 2006-08
Chair, panel to review of NOAA's Climate Observations and Analysis Program,
     April 11-13, 2007. April 11-13, 2007" 35 pp.
Member, AGU panel on AGU position statement on data preservation and availability,
     2008-2009.
Member, NASA MERRA Advisory Board, 2007-
Member at Large, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section on
     Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences (Elected), 2009-2013.

International

Committee to report on possible effects of halomethanes on the ozone layer (New Zealand), 1975.
Program committee of Australasian conference on Climate and Climatic Change. Monash
     University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, 7-12 Dec. 1975.
Member for New Zealand on the working group of the Global Data Processing Systems of the
     Commission for Basic Systems of the World Meteorological Organization, 1976-77.
Lead Author and contributor (multiple chapters and volumes), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
     Change (IPCC), Scientific Assessment of Climate Change, WMO/UNEP, 1990, 1992,
     1995 (Convening Lead Author Chapter 1, Lead Author Technical Summary); 2001 (Lead
     Author Chapter 7, Lead Author Technical Summary, and Lead Author Policy Makers
     Summary); 2001 Synthesis Report (Lead Author); 2007 (Coordinating Lead Author
     Chapter 3).
Member, Scientific Committee Inter-American Meteorological Congress, Brasilia, 20-24 October
     1986.
Member, International TOGA Scientific Steering Group 1989-94.
Member, ECMWF ReAnalysis (ERA) Project Advisory Group. February 1993-2004.
Member, Atmospheric Observation Panel for Climate of the Global Climate Observing System.
     1994-99.
Member, International CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group 1995-2004.
     Co-chair 1996-1999.
Member, Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme. 1999-2006.
     Officer (member of Exec. Committee) 2003-2006.
     Chair WCRP Observation and Assimilation Panel (WOAP) 2004-.
     Member WCRP Modeling Panel 2004-.
     Member Task Force on COPES: Coordinated Observation and Prediction of the Earth
     System. 2003-04
Lead Author and Member of team of experts to write The Second Report on the Adequacy of the
     Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC. 2002-2003; and follow
     on Implementation Plan for the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of
     the UNFCCC, 2003-2004.
Member, CLIVAR 2004 International Scientific Conference committee, 2002-2004.
Convener with Jon Overpeck the CLIVAR/PAGES/IPCC Workshop "A multi-millennia
     perspective on drought and implications for the future", Tucson, AZ November 18-21, 2003.
Member, organizing committee for International CLIVAR workshop on Ocean Reanalysis 2004.
Member, American Geophysical Union Roger Revelle Medal Selection Committee. 2006-08.
Member, Third International Reanalysis Conference organizing committee. 2006-08. Tokyo, Japan.
Member, International GEWEX Scientific Steering Group, 2007- .

American Meteorological Society

AMS Committee on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, 1981-1986.
Member of program committee of First International Conference on Southern Hemisphere
     Meteorology, San Jose dos Campos, Brazil; 31 July-6 August 1983.
Program chairman Second International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology,
     1984-1986.
Chairman, AMS Committee on the Southern Hemisphere, 1985-1987.
Member Program Committee of Third International Conference on Southern Hemisphere
     Meteorology and Oceanography, Buenos Aires, Argentina 13-17 November 1989.
Member Program Committee AMS Special Session on Climate Variations, Anaheim, CA 7-9 Feb.
     1990.
Member AMS Committee on Climate Variations, January 1991-1994.
Member AMS Committee on Atmospheric Research Awards Committee. 2001-2004.

National Academy of Sciences
Member of Committee on Earth Sciences of the Space Science Board, 1982-1985.
Member TOGA Advisory Panel, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, 1984-1987.
Member Polar Research Board 1986-1990.
Member Climate Research Committee, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, 1987-1990.
Member Global Ocean Atmosphere Land System (GOALS) Panel, 1994-98.
Corresponding member Panel on Climate Observing System Status, Board on Atmospheric
     Sciences and Climate, 1998-99.
Member Climate Research Committee Panel on Reconciling Temperature Observations. Board on
     Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, 1999-2000.
Member Committee on Global Change Research, Division of Earth and Life Sciences. 1999-2002.
Member NRC Panel on "Evaluation of climate change indicators for EPA". 2004

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• 140+ Keynote or invited talks in workshops or conferences 1996+
• 82 invited general or public lectures
• Participation in many other conferences and workshops.
• Reviewer of papers for 40+ different journals, book publishers, WMO, IPCC, etc.
• Reviewer of proposals for many agencies, boards, etc.
• Many appearances on national and local television programs and news
• Participation on radio talkback shows, and radio programs
• Miscellaneous interviews for magazines and newspapers
• Miscellaneous testimony

PUBLICATIONS

The total number of publications (April 2009) is 45 books or book chapters, 186 journal articles, 23 Tech. Notes, 104 proceedings or preprints, and 65 other articles, plus three videos, for a total of 423 publications plus 3 videos.

Listed among the top 20 in highest citations in all of geophysics. Over 11,300 citations and a Power Index (also known as H index) of 57 (signifying that 57 publications have 57 or more citations).
The paper listed in http://esi-topics.com/gwarm/interviews/DrKevinTrenberth.html now has 766 citations.