Carter CV
Keynote Presentations from the 3rd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 2 - 14 September 2008
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Speaker: Timothy Carter Tim.Carter -at- ymparisto.fi Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), PO Box 140, FIN-00251 Helsinki, Finland |
Title of the talk: European ecosystems in alternative future worlds (pdf: 4MB)
Biosketch
Timothy Carter is a Research Professor at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Helsinki with over 25 years of research experience in the field of climate change impacts and adaptation. Educated in the UK, Carter 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 has co-ordinated or participated in several multi-institutional national and international projects on climate impacts, global change scenarios and climate change adaptation. Cater has served as a Lead Author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Second, Third and Fourth Assessment Reports and has published 3 books, over 85 refereed papers, reports and book chapters, and more than 75 other publications.
