Corell recently completed an appointment as a Senior Research Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Dr. Corell is actively engaged in research concerned with both the sciences of global change and with the interface between science and public policy, particularly research activities that are focused on global and regional climate change and related environmental issues. He serves as the Chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), which is an international assessment of the impacts of climate variability, change, and UV increases in the Arctic Region. He is the chair of an 18-country international planning effort to outline the major Arctic-region research challenges for the decade or so ahead. He lead an international strategic planning group that developed the strategy for and the programs and activities designed to harness science, technology and innovation for sustainable development.
Prior to January 2000, he was Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation where he had oversight for the Atmospheric, Earth, and Ocean Sciences, the NSF’s Polar Programs, and the NSF Global Change Program. While at the NSF, Dr. Corell also served as the chair of the President’s National Science and Technology Council’s committee that has oversight of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and he was chair of the international committee of government agencies funding global change research. Further, he served as chair and principal U.S. delegate to many international bodies with interests in and responsibilities for climate and global change research programs. Prior to joining the NSF in 1987, he was a Professor and academic administrator at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Corell is an oceanographer and engineer by background and training, having received Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees at Case Western Reserve University and MIT and he has held appointments at the Woods Hole Institution of Oceanography, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Washington, and Case Western Reserve University.