Steffen CV
Keynote Presentations from the 2nd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 1 - 13 September 2007
Speaker: Will Steffen
Will.Steffen -at- anu.edu.au
Director, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
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Title of the talk: The Anthropocene: From hunter-gatherers to a global geophysical force (pdf: 5MB)
Biosketch
Professor Will Steffen is the Director of the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, and is also the Director of ANU's Institute for Environment. Prior to taking up his ANU appointments, from July 2004 through October 2005, Steffen was Science Adviser, Australian Greenhouse Office, and Visiting Fellow, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Australian Government, Canberra. From 1998 to mid-2004, he served as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, headquarted in Stockholm, Sweden. Steffen received his PhD in inorganic chemistry in 1975 from the University of Florida, USA. His research interests span a broad range within the field of Earth System science, with a special emphasis on terrestrial ecosystem interactions with global change, the global carbon cycle, incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis, and sustainability and Earth System science.
