Alan Robock

Alan Robock is a Distinguished Professor of climate science in the department of environmental sciences at Rutgers University. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1970 with a B.A. in meteorology, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an S.M. in 1974 and PhD in 1977, both in meteorology. Before graduate school, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. He was a professor at the University of Maryland, 1977-1997, and the State Climatologist of Maryland, 1991-1997, before coming to Rutgers in 1998. Professor Robock was a lead author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.