Jonathan Overpeck, a leading University of Arizona climate scientist and co-author of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize-winning U.N. climate-change report, is a finalist for a position at the University of Wisconsin.
Overpeck, one of the lead authors on the April 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report linking atmospheric greenhouse gas increases to human activity, is director of the UA’s Institute for Study of Planet Earth.
He is one of two finalists for the position of director of the larger Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the university in Madison.