Climate Change, Perry World House Climate scientist Michael Mann to join Penn faculty

Environmental scientist Michael E. Mann will be joining the Penn faculty as of Sept. 1 as a Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. He will also be the inaugural director of a new Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media (PCSSM), a Perry World House faculty fellow, a fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, and a distinguished research fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center.

Mann’s research focuses on climate variability and extremes, paleoclimate, tropical cyclones, and climate education and policy. In 1999, he and his colleagues produced a reconstruction of temperature changes over the past 1,000 years that demonstrated a pronounced human impact on climate. Described as the “hockey stick” graph because of its dramatic upward curve, the work was for many years a focal point for attacks by climate science skeptics.

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