Keynote Presentations
from the
AVEC
International
Summer School, Peyresq, 14-27 September 2003
Speaker: Timothy Carter
tim.carter<at>ymparisto.fi
Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), PO Box 140, FIN-00251 Helsinki, Finland
Title of the talk: Scenarios
of global change (pdf: 4 Mb)
Biosketch
Timothy Carter is a Research Professor at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Helsinki with over twenty years of research experience in the field of climate change impacts. Carter was born in England and obtained his first degree in Geography at the University of London and his Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham. He worked on an international project on climate change and agriculture at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria during 1983-87, returned to Birmingham for three years as a Research Fellow on a European Commission (EC)-funded agricultural project, and moved to Finland in 1990, joining the Agricultural Research Centre of Finland to work in the newly established Finnish Research Programme on Climate Change (SILMU). With an office in Helsinki at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, he co-ordinated SILMU studies on climate change and agriculture and climate scenario development as well as the Finnish component of two EC projects. He moved to SYKE in 1999 where he now leads a multi-institutional project on global change scenarios under the Finnish Global Change Research Programme (FIGARE). He is also involved in scenario development and impact assessment work for EC projects in Europe, and globally for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in his role as a Lead Author in the Second and Third Assessment Reports. He has published 3 books, over 60 refereed papers, reports and book chapters, and more than 50 other publications.
