Four researchers spread out across the greater University of Washington area are among the 721 experts invited to participate as lead authors and editors in the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

Two PCC board members, Kyle Armour, an assistant professor of oceanography and atmospheric sciences, and Kristie Ebi, a professor of global health and environmental and occupational health sciences were selected to help write the AR6.

Amour was selected to be a lead author for Chapter 7 of Working Group I, which centers around the “Earth’s energy budget, climate feedbacks, and climate sensitivity”. Kristie Ebi was selected to be a review editor for chapter 1 of Working Group II, which assesses the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural systems to climate change.

On top of this, Richard Feely, of NOAA PMEL, was selected to be a review editor and Jeremy Hess, an associate professor of global health, was appointed to be a lead author for chapter 6 of Working Group II.