Peter Gleick

Peter Gleick

Peter Gleick, Keynote Speaker, Boston Museum of Science, April 2014
Born 1956
Nationality American
Alma mater

University of California, Berkeley

Yale University
Occupation President and co-founder of Pacific Institute
Organization Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security
Notable work The World's Water, Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water, A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy.
Website

pacinst.org/about-us/staff-and-board/dr-peter-h-gleick/

www.gleick.com

Peter H. Gleick (/ˌɡlik/; born 1956) is an American scientist working on issues related to the environment.[1] He works at the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California, which he co-founded in 1987. In 2003 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his work on water resources. Among the issues he has addressed are conflicts over water resources,[2] water and climate change,[3] development, and human health.[4]

In 2006 he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 2011, Gleick was the launch Chairman[5] of the "new task force on scientific ethics and integrity" of the American Geophysical Union.[6] Gleick received the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) Ven Te Chow Memorial Award in 2011,[7] and that same year he and the Pacific Institute were awarded the first U.S. Water Prize. In 2014, the Guardian newspaper listed Gleick as one of the world's top 10 "water tweeters." [8]

Career

Gleick received a B.S. from Yale University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on hydroclimatology. His dissertation was the first to model the regional impacts of climate change on water resources.[9][10][11] Gleick produced some of the earliest work on the links between environmental issues, especially water and climate change, and international security, identifying a long history of conflicts over water resources and the use of water as both a weapon and target of war.[12][13][14] He also pioneered the concepts of the soft water path,[15] and peak water.[16][17]

Gleick worked as the Deputy Assistant for Energy and the Environment to the Governor of California from 1980 to 1982.[18]

In 2003 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his work on water resources, and in 2006 he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

In 2011, Gleick received the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) Ven Te Chow Memorial Award.[7] Also in 2011, Dr. Gleick and the Pacific Institute were awarded the first U.S. Water Prize.[19] That same year, Gleick was the launch Chairman[5] of the "new task force on scientific ethics and integrity" of the American Geophysical Union.[6]

In 2012, Oxford University Press published a book written by Gleick and colleagues: "A 21st Century U.S. Water Policy,"[20] and he was named one of 25 "Water Heroes" by Xylem.[21] In 2013, Gleick was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards.[22]

In early 2013, Gleick launched a new blog at National Geographic ScienceBlogs entitled "Significant Figures."[23] He is also a regular contributor to Huffington Post Green.[24]

Gleick has also been featured in a wide range of water-related documentary films, including Jim Thebaut's documentary "Running Dry",[25] the 2004 German documentary series "Der durstige Planet,"[26] Irena Salina's feature documentary Flow: For Love of Water,[27] accepted for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, the ABC News documentary "Earth2100,"[28] and Jessica Yu and Elise Pearlstein's 2011 feature documentary Last Call at the Oasis from Participant Media.[29] His 2010 book Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water, published by Island Press, won the Nautilus Book Award.[30][31] He served on the scientific advisory boards of Thirst, Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk, and other water-related films.

Pacific Institute

In 1987, with two colleagues, Gleick started the Pacific Institute, a non-profit policy research center currently located in Oakland, California. The mission of the Institute is "The Pacific Institute creates and advances solutions to the world’s most pressing water challenges."[32] Gleick currently serves as the Institute's President,[33] but from July 2016 will serve as President Emeritus and Chief Scientist.[34][35]

Peter Gleick receiving Lifetime Achievement Award from the Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards

Current work

Gleick is the editor of the biennial series on the state of the world's water, called The World's Water,[4] published by Island Press, Washington, D.C., regularly provides testimony to the United States Congress and state legislatures, and has published many scientific articles. He serves as a major source of information on water and climate issues for the media, and has been featured on CNBC, CNN, Fox Business, Fresh Air with Terry Gross,[36] NPR, in articles in The New Yorker,[37] and many other outlets.

Gleick lectures dozens of times a year on global water resource challenges and solutions, climate science and policy, and the integrity of science. In 2008, he presented the Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture at the United States National Academy of Sciences.[38] He was a 2009 Keynote Lecturer at the Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College. In 2014, Gleick published a peer-reviewed article in the American Meteorological Society journal "Weather, Climate, and Society" (WCAS) that addressed the role of drought, climate change, and water management decisions in influencing the civil war in Syria.[39] This article was the "most read" WCAS article for 2014.[40]

In September 2014, Gleick gave a keynote address at the “Global Climate Negotiations: Lessons from California” Symposium, co-hosted by the USC Schwarzenegger Institute with the California Air Resources Board and the R20 Regions of Climate Action (R20) in Sacramento, which highlighted the different policies applied by the state of California facing the impact of climate change.,[41][42] In February 2015, Gleick's work on the "Water-Energy Nexus" was highlighted in an invited keynote at the Georgetown University 2015 Annual Symposium of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.[43]

Heartland Institute incident

On February 20, 2012, Gleick announced he was responsible for the unauthorized distribution of documents from The Heartland Institute in mid-February. Gleick reported he had received "an anonymous document in the mail describing what appeared to be details of the Heartland Institute's climate program strategy", and in trying to verify the authenticity of the document, had "solicited and received additional materials directly from the Heartland Institute under someone else's name".[44] Responding to the leak, The Heartland Institute said one of the documents released, a two-page 'Strategy Memo', had been forged.[45] Gleick denied forging the document. Gleick described his actions as "a serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics" and said that he "deeply regret[ted his] own actions in this case" and "offer[ed his] personal apologies to all those affected". He stated that "My judgment was blinded by my frustration with the ongoing efforts – often anonymous, well-funded, and coordinated – to attack climate science and scientists and prevent this debate, and by the lack of transparency of the organizations involved."[44][46] On February 24 he wrote to the board of the Pacific Institute requesting a "temporary short-term leave of absence" from the Institute.[47][48] The Board of Directors stated it was "deeply concerned regarding recent events" involving Gleick and the Heartland documents, and appointed a new Acting Executive Director on February 27.[49] He was reinstated following an investigation.[50]

Personal life

Gleick is the brother of author James Gleick and Elizabeth Gleick.

Honors

References

  1. ↑ "Full CV for Dr. Peter H. Gleick" (PDF). Pacific Institute. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Visionary: Finite Possibilities". Los Angeles Times Magazine. January 2010. Retrieved 2015-03-12.
  3. ↑ "War On Tap: America". NPR Books (NPR). 2010-05-17. Retrieved 2015-03-12.
  4. 1 2 "The World's Water". Pacific Institute. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  5. 1 2 "Volunteers", AGU Annual Report.
  6. 1 2 Gleick, Peter; Randy Townsend (2011-11-22). "AGU's new task force on scientific ethics and integrity begins work". Eos 92 (47): 433. Bibcode:2011EOSTr..92..433G. doi:10.1029/2011EO470009. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
  7. 1 2 "Ven Te Chow Memorial Lecture Award". International Water Resources Association. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  8. 1 2 "Top 10 Water Tweeters". Guardian Newspaper. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  9. ↑ Gleick, P.H. (1986). "Methods for evaluating the regional hydrologic impacts of global climatic changes". Journal of Hydrology 88: 97–116. Bibcode:1986JHyd...88...97G. doi:10.1016/0022-1694(86)90199-X.
  10. ↑ Gleick, P.H. (1986). "The development and testing of a water balance model for climate impact assessment: Modeling the Sacramento Basin". Water Resources Research 23 (6): 1049–1061.
  11. ↑ Gleick, P.H. (1986). "Regional hydrologic consequences of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other trace gases". Climatic Change 10 (2): 137–161.
  12. ↑ Gleick, P.H. (1989). "Greenhouse warming and international politics: Problems facing developing countries". Ambio 18 (6): 333–339.
  13. ↑ Gleick, P.H. (1989). "The implications of global climatic changes for international security". Climatic Change 15 (1/2): 309–325. doi:10.1007/BF00138857.
  14. ↑ Gleick, P.H. (1993). "Water and conflict". International Security 18 (1): 79–112. doi:10.2307/2539033.
  15. ↑ Gleick, P.H. (2002). "Soft water paths". Nature 418 (6896): 373. Bibcode:2002Natur.418..373G. doi:10.1038/418373a.
  16. ↑ Gleick, P.; Gleick, P.; et al. (2010). "Peak Water: Conceptual and Practical Limits to Freshwater Withdrawal and Use". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107 (25): 11155–11162. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10711155G. doi:10.1073/pnas.1004812107.
  17. ↑ "Peter Gleick on Peak Water", YouTube.
  18. ↑ "About Peter Gleick". Peter H. Gleick: Water and the Planet. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  19. ↑ "Peter Gleick and Pacific Institute emphasize water conservation". Retrieved February 24, 2014.
  20. ↑ Christian-Smith, Juliet; Gleick, Peter (2012). A 21st Century U.S. Water Policy (first ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 334. ISBN 9780199859443.
  21. 1 2 "Xylem 25 water Heroes". Xylem Magazine. August 3, 2012. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
  22. ↑ "Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards". Retrieved March 21, 2013.
  23. ↑ "National Geographic ScienceBlogs "Significant Figures by Peter Gleick"". National Geographic ScienceBlogs. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
  24. ↑ "Huffington Post Green Peter Gleick". Huffington Post. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
  25. ↑ "Welcome". Runningdry.org. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  26. ↑ Der durstige Planet, IMDb page.
  27. ↑ Flow: For Love of Water, IMDb page.
  28. ↑ Earth2100, IMDb page.
  29. ↑ "Last Call at the Oasis". Participant Media. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  30. ↑ "Praise for Bottled and Sold". Island Press. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  31. ↑ "Nautilus 2011 Silver Book Awards". Nautilus Book Awards. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  32. ↑ "Pacific Institute Mission". Pacific Institute. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  33. ↑ "CV for Dr. Peter H. Gleick". Pacific Institute. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  34. ↑ "The Pacific Institute Announces Leadership Transition" (Press release). Pacific Institute. 2016-03-23. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  35. ↑ Wolff, Eric (2016-03-24). "Mover, Shaker". Politico. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  36. ↑ "Peter Gleick Reports on a Looming Water Crisis". Fresh Air. NPR. November 27, 2007. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  37. ↑ Specter, Michael (October 23, 2006). "The Last Drop". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  38. ↑ "Wolman Lectures" (PDF). US National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
  39. ↑ Gleick P (2014). "Water, Drought, Climate Change, and Conflict in Syria". Weather, Climate, and Society (American Meteorological Society) 6 (3). doi:10.1175/WCAS-D-13-00059.1.
  40. ↑ "Weather, Climate, and Society Most Read Articles of 2014". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
  41. ↑ "Peter Gleick Joins Government, Business, and Academic Leaders to Discuss Progress on Groundbreaking California Climate Policies". Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  42. ↑ "Sacramento Symposium on Climate Change and California". Retrieved October 18, 2014.
  43. ↑ "2015 Sheikh Abdullah Saleh Kamel Symposium, Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies". Retrieved February 10, 2015.
  44. 1 2 Gleick, P.H., "The Origin of the Heartland Documents", 2012-02-20, Huffington Post.
  45. ↑ Gillis, Justin; Kaufman, Leslie (February 15, 2012). "Leak Offers Glimpse of Campaign Against Climate Science". The New York Times.
  46. ↑ "Activist Says He Lied to Obtain Climate Papers", New York Times, published February 20, 2012.
  47. ↑ Goldenberg, Suzanne (2012-02-25). "Peter Gleick on leave from Pacific Institute over Heartland leak". The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
  48. ↑ "Peter Gleick requests short-term leave of absence from Oakland's Pacific Institute", San Jose Mercury News, Feb 24, 2012
  49. ↑ Pacific Institute Board of Directors statement, Feb 27, 2012. The Board Statement posted on Feb 22, 2012 stated it was "deeply concerned and is actively reviewing information about the recent events" involving Gleick and the Heartland documents. It was subsequently replaced by the Feb 27, 2012 statement.
  50. ↑ Goldenberg, Suzanne (2012-06-07). "Peter Gleick reinstated by Pacific Institute following Heartland exposé". The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
  51. ↑ Power, Matthew (September 22, 2008). "Peter Gleick: Deal With the Water Crisis Now". Wired.
  52. ↑ Thomas, Matt (October 9, 2009). "Nobel Conference Lectures Archived Online". Gustavus Adolphus College. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  53. ↑ "Rockefeller Foundation Next Century Innovators Award". Rockefeller Foundation. 2012. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
  54. ↑ "Biography of Peter Gleick". 2015. Retrieved December 18, 2015.

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