Jeff Arnold Joins IWR's Climate and Global Change Team

ALEXANDRIA, VA – November 27, 2009. Jeff Arnold, PhD has joined IWR's Climate and Global Change team led by Kate White and Rolf Olsen. He will be managing projects in IWR's Sustainable Solutions project delivery team, such as computing parts of the USACE greenhouse gas footprint, as well as other climate change mitigation and adaptation work. He will also support USACE Headquarters, the OASA (CW), Corps field offices, the Council on Environmental Quality, and the Air Quality Research subcommittee of the Council on Environment and Natural Resources Research Committee on questions about Corps climate mitigation and adaptation goals, work and policy development.

Jeff came to IWR and the Corps from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) where he was the senior scientist for atmospheric chemistry and physics and led the assessments of global climate change-air quality interactions in the National Center for Environmental Assessment, a unit of EPA's Office of Research and Development in Research, Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Before going to EPA, Jeff had been a senior scientist and project manager in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Air Resources Laboratory, working for 10 years in Seattle, Washington and at field experiment sites around the U.S., Europe and China. He worked for more than 15 years on problems in atmospheric chemistry and physics under conditions of future change, particularly ones related to nitrogen and its effects on aquatic systems. In that time, he was principal investigator for a number of U.S. and international ground- and aircraft-based field campaigns and large-scale numerical modeling experiments, work for which he's received national awards from EPA and NOAA.

Jeff serves on national and international proposal and project review committees, is a regular reviewer for journals in the atmospheric sciences, and has more than 40 peer-reviewed publications. He holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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The Climate and Global Change program was created to develop, implement and assess adjustments or changes in decision environments to enhance resilience or reduce vulnerability of UACE projects, systems and programs to observed or expected changes in climate.