Dr. Will Howard

Biography

Will Howard is a Visiting Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society within the Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions at the Australian National University. He leads research on climate science adaptation, climate policy, and negative emissions issues. Dr. Howard earned his Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Brown University and has served as a Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University. His previous roles include lecturing in oceanography at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, USA, and conducting research at the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre. He has worked with the Office of the Chief Scientist in Canberra from 2010 to 2017, where he was Head of Science from 2016 to 2017. Dr. Howard initiated the Sedimentary Basin Management Initiative at the University of Melbourne’s School of Earth Sciences, focusing on managing sedimentary basins. He is a member of the National Committee on Earth System Science and continues to research marine climate change, particularly the impacts of ocean acidification.

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