Robert B. Jackson

Bio and Research:

Rob Jackson is the Nicholas Chair of Global Environmental Change and a professor in the Biology Department and Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. His research examines feedbacks between people and the biosphere, including studies of the global carbon and water cycles,biosphere/atmosphere interactions, and global change. He is currently Director of Duke's Center on Global Change and Duke's Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Laboratory. In his quest for solutions to global warming, he also directs the new Department of Energy-funded National Institute for Climatic Change Research for the southeastern U.S. and co-directs the Climate Change Policy Partnership, working with energy and utility corporations to find practical strategies to combat climate change.

Jackson has received numerous awards, including the Murray F. Buell Award from the Ecological Society of America, a 1999 Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering from the National Science Foundation (one of 19 scientists honored at the White House by President Clinton), and inclusion in the top 0.5% of most cited scientific researchers. He has more than 125 peer-reviewed scientific publications and is co-editor of the book "Methods in Ecosystem Science" (Springer, 2000). His trade book on global change, The Earth Remains Forever, was published in October of 2002. His first children's book, "Animal Mischief", was published in March of 2006 by Boyds Mills Press, the trade arm of Highlights Magazine for children. The sequel, "Not Again", is due out next year.