Dr. David Battisti
University of Washington
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David Battisti is the Tamaki Endowed Chair of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. His research is focused on understanding the natural variability of the climate system. He is especially interested in understanding how the interactions between the ocean, atmosphere, land and sea ice lead to variability in climate on time scales from seasonal to decades. His previous research includes coastal oceanography, the physics of the El Niño/Southern Osciallation (ENSO) phenomenon, midlatitude atmosphere/ocean variability and variability in the coupled atmosphere/sea ice system in the Arctic. Dr. Battisti has worked to identify the mechanisms responsible for the drought cycles in the Sahel, and to better understand the monsoon circulations. He is also working on the impacts of climate variability and climate change on food production in Mexico, Indonesia and China. Dr. Battisti's recent interests in paleoclimate include the mechanisms responsible for the remarkable "abrupt" global climate changes evident throughout the last glacial period.
Dr. Battisti has served on numerous international science panels, on Committees of the U.S. National Research Council. He served for five years as co-chair of the Science Steering Committee for the U.S. Program on Climate (US CLIVAR) and is co-author of several international science plans. He is a Senior Fellow of JISAO at UW and on the Faculty at the University of Bergen. He has published over 80 papers in peer-review journals in atmospheric sciences and oceanography, and has twice received distinguished teaching awards.

Dr. Peter Brewer
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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Peter Brewer is an ocean chemist, and Senior Scientist, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Prior to joining MBARI in 1991 he spent 24 years as a researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, rising to the rank of Senior Scientist. He has taken part in more than 40 deep-sea cruises and also has served as Chief Scientist on well over 100 ROV dives, and has served as Chief Scientist on major expeditions worldwide. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Internationally he has served as Vice-Chair of JGOFS, as a Lead Author for the 2005 IPCC, Special Report on CO2 Capture and Storage, and now serves on the IPCC WG II Fifth Assessment Report.
Dr. Brewer's research interests are broad, and include the ocean geochemistry of the greenhouse gases. He has devised novel techniques both for measurement and for extracting the oceanic signatures of global change. At MBARI his current interests include the geochemistry of gas hydrates, the bio-geochemical impacts of the growing oceanic fossil fuel CO2 signal and the multiple impacts of ocean acidification, and the development of in situ laser Raman spectrometry techniques for real-time measurement in the deep-sea.

Dr. Clara Deserx
National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Clara Deser is senior scientist in the Climate Analysis Section of the Climate and Global Dynamics Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). After receiving a B.S. degree in Earth and Planetary Sciences from MIT and a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington, Dr. Deser worked at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado before moving to NCAR in 1997. She received the early-career Meisinger Award of the American Meteorological Society in 1999, and in 2008 was elected a Fellow of the AMS.
Dr. Deser’s research encompasses a broad range of topics relating to analysis of observed and modelled climate variability and change in the coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice system. Recently these have included mechanisms of Antarctic climate variability, the response of Arctic and global climate to Arctic sea ice loss, and the contribution of unforced climate variability to uncertainty in projections of future climate change.

Dr. Shin-ichi Ito
Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute
PICES Plenary lecture
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Shin-ichi Ito is Chief Scientist of the Physical Oceanography Section in the Fisheries Research Agency of Japan’s Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute. Dr. Ito completed his graduate work in Physical Oceanography at Hokkaido University. His main research interest the relation between ocean properties and circulation and marine ecosystems, particularly in the subarctic Oyashio Current and mixed water region where it collides with the warm Kuroshio Current east of Japan. He deployed more than 30 moorings and a water glider, and his research work includes the development of a fish growth model coupled to the lower-trophic-level ecosystem model NEMURO.FISH (North Pacific Ecosystem Model for Understanding Regional Oceanography For including Saury and Herring).
Dr. Ito is Co-Chairman of the GLOBEC Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas Working Group on Modeling Ecosystem Response. Within the PICES North Pacific Marine Science Organization he has served as Co-Chairman of the MODEL Task Team and as a member of the Physical Oceanography and Climate Committee (POC), FUTURE SOFE Advisory Panel and joint PICES/ICES Working Group on Forecasting Climate Change Impacts on Fish and Shellfish.

Dr. Randall Martin
Dalhousie University
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Randall Martin is the Killam Professor in the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science at Dalhousie University, and a Research Associate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He received a B.S. from Cornell University in Engineering in 1996, a M.Sc. in Environmental Science from Oxford University in 1998, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2002 with a focus on atmospheric chemistry and satellite remote sensing. Dr. Martin is a recipient of the Langstroth Memorial Teaching Award, an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement, and a Killam Prize for exceptional young scientists. He serves as deputy model scientist for a widely-used global model of atmospheric composition (GEOS-Chem). He was recently the scientific co-chair of the IGAC/iCACGP international conference on atmospheric chemistry. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles on satellite remote sensing and global modeling of atmospheric composition.

Dr. Jim McWilliams
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Jim McWilliams is the Louis B. Slichter Professor of Earth Sciences in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCLA. He received his college degrees in Applied Mathematics: a B.S. (with honors) in 1968 from Caltech and a M.S. in 1969 and Ph.D. in 1971 from Harvard. After holding a Research Fellowship in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at Harvard (1971-74), he worked in the Oceanography Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), where he became a Senior Scientist in 1980, retaining a part-time appointment after moving to UCLA in 1994. In 2002, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. McWilliams' primary areas of scientific research are the fluid dynamics of Earth's oceans and atmosphere, both their theory and computational modeling. Particular subjects include the maintenance of the general circulations; climate dynamics; geostrophically and cyclostrophically balanced dynamics in rotating, stratified fluids; vortex dynamics; planetary boundary layers; planetary-scale thermohaline convection; the roles of coherent structures in turbulent flows; numerical algorithms; statistical estimation theory; and coastal ocean modeling. Recently he has been involved in developing a three-dimensional simulation model of the U.S. West Coast that incorporates physical oceanographic, biogeochemical, and sediment transport aspects of the coastal circulation. This model has been used to interpret coastal phenomena, diagnose historical variability in relation to observational data, and assess future possibilities.

Dr. Phil Mote
Oregon Climate Change Research Institute
Sponsored by the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium
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Phil Mote serves as director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI) at Oregon State University. After receiving his A.B. in Physics from Harvard in 1987 and his PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington in 1994, he was appointed Research Scientist in the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington in 1998 and became Washington State Climatologist in 2003 before moving to the newly-created OCCRI in 2009.
Dr. Mote’s research interests include climate variability and change in the Pacific Northwest, mountain snowpack and its response to climate variability and change, and interpretation of global model and satellite data as well as impacts of climate change on water resources, forests and shorelands, sea level rise, and adaptation to climate change.
His recent research work includes regional modeling with massive ensembles using volunteer computing, optimal design of surface climate observing networks, finescale variability of surface temperature, and satellite observations of tropical climate variability and feedbacks.

Dr. Thomas Stocker
University of Bern
Sponsored by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
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Thomas Stocker is Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics at the University of Bern. He obtained a PhD in Natural Sciences of ETH Zürich in 1987, and subsequently held research positions at the University College London, McGill University, Columbia University and the University of Hawai'i before joining the faculty at Bern in 1993. His research encompasses the development of climate models of intermediate complexity, modelling past and future climate change and the reconstruction of the chemical composition of precipitation and greenhouse gas concentrations based on ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica.
Dr. Stocker has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in the area of climate dynamics and paleoclimate modeling and reconstruction. He was awarded a Dr. Honoris Causa of the University of Versailles (France) in 2006 and the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union in 2009. After more than 10 years of service in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) he has been elected Co-Chair of Working Group I "The Physical Science Basis" of the IPCC in 2008.