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  Professor Oran Young is professor emeritus and co-director of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California Santa Barbara. His research focuses on theoretical issues relating to the roles social institutions play as elements of governance systems, with applications to the atmosphere, the oceans, and the polar regions. He also does comparative research on environmental governance processes in China and the United States. Dr. Young served for six years as founding chair of the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change of the US National Academy of Sciences. He chaired the Scientific Steering Committee of the international project on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC). He was a founding co-chair of the Global Carbon Project and from 2005 to 2010 chaired the Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change. An expert on Arctic issues, Dr. Young chaired the Steering Committee of the Arctic Governance Project and is the senior counselor to the North Pacific Arctic Conference. Past service in this realm includes co-chair of the Working Group on Arctic International Relations, co-chair of the NAS Committee on Arctic Social Science, member of the US Polar Research Board, founding board member of the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, vice-president of the International Arctic Science Committee, chair of the Board of Governors of the University of the Arctic, consultant to the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region, and co-chair of the 2004 Arctic Human Development Report. Dr. Young holds honorary doctorates from UiT the Arctic University of Norway and the University of Lapland. He is the author or co-author of more than 30 books. His recent books include: Governing Complex Systems: Social Capital for the Anthropocene, and Grand Challenges of Global Governance: Global Order in Turbulent Times.

  Dr Jenny Baeseman began her love of the cold growing up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, USA. She has a BSc in Water Chemistry from the University of WI - Stevens Point, an MSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota, a PhD also in Civil Engineering with an environmental emphasis from the University of Colorado, and postdoctoral training in Geosciences from Princeton University. She has spent four seasons in Antarctica, three in the McMurdo Dry Valleys and one on the peninsula. She has held several high-level international science leadership positions and continues research in her spare time through an adjunct position at the International Arctic Research Center (IARC) at the University of Alaska – Fairbanks. Currently she is looking for consulting opportunities to help facilitate international science and education projects. 

Jenny was very involved in the planning of the International Polar Year (IPY 2007-2009) and, through this, co-founded and subsequently became the Founding Director of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), which grew to over 3500 members from 76 countries under her leadership. One of her main objectives in developing APECS was to help young researchers combine their interests in interdisciplinary polar science with education and outreach and gain international leadership through professional development activities.

In April 2012, she turned over the reins of the early career group to become the Director of the Climate and the Cryosphere Project (CliC), sponsored by the WCRP (World Climate Research Programme). During her tenure at CliC, she reinvigorated project after 5+-year term of low activity into a highly visible, collaborative and effective global change project with 15 shorter-term activities with defined outcomes, meaningfully involving more than 500 global cryosphere and climate scientists. She also developed the CliC Fellows program creating engaging opportunities for early career researchers. 

In July 2015, she became the Executive Director of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) where she was the first woman to hold the post for the 60-year old organization, and the first non-UK resident. In the short time with SCAR, she increased the reach of SCAR communications from 500 to over 5000, lead creation of new organizational strategic plan, facilitated membership restructure to increase annual income, created and modernized administrative and office procedures for increased efficiency, enhanced internal and external communications, designed and implemented a new website including digitizing 60 years of organizational history and coordinated the “Celebrating Women in Antarctic Research” Wikibomb activity which added over 100 biographies of female Antarctic researchers to the world’s largest encyclopedia. In addition she managed the majority of SCAR’s activities within the 30+ working groups dealing with Antarctic research and capacity building, planned the SCAR Open Science Conferences and other meetings, and assisted with the creation and implementation of policy documents for the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings. 

After spending almost a decade over seas managing international science organizations, Jenny decided it was time to come back to her home state of Wisconsin and put her talents to work in the US. She currently resides in Madison, WI with her husband Øystein and is looking forward to getting a dog and a kitten soon. 

One of Jenny's personal goals is to make sure everyone she meets knows that polar bears don't eat penguins - as they live at different Poles.

 Dr. Robert Corell is an American global climate scientist.  principal for the Global Environment & Technology Foundation, an ambassador for ClimateWorks, professor II at the University of the Arctic's new Institute of Circumpolar Reindeer Husbandry, a professor II at the University of Tromso, and director of the Sarasota, Florida-based Climate Adaptation Center (CAC).    

He is a partner of the Sustainability Institute and its C-ROADS Climate Interactive Initiative, and head of US Office for the Global Energy Assessment. In 1996 he was Awarded Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit by the President of Brazil. In 2003 a Mountain region in Antarctic was named the "Corell Cirque" in his honor. He contributed to the assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organization that was co-awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, and in 2010 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine by the Norges veterinærhøgskole (Norwegian School of Veterinarian Science). He joined the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment in 2006 as vice president for programs and policy (until January 2010).   

Dr. Corell served as an affiliate of the Washington Advisory Group and is a senior policy fellow at the Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society. He recently[when?] completed an appointment that began in January 2000 as a senior research fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Corell has been quoted in the Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Golf Digest, CBS News' 60 Minutes, and many additional public media outlets such as Skavlan. Corell is actively engaged in research concerned with the sciences of global change and the interface between science and public policy, particularly research activities that are focused on global and regional climate change, related environmental issues, and science to facilitate understanding of vulnerability and sustainable development. He co-chairs an international strategic planning group that is developing a strategy designed to harness science, technology, and innovation for sustainable development; serves as the chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment; counsels as senior science advisor to ManyOne.Net; and is chair of the board of the Digital Universe Foundation. Corell was assistant director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation, where he had oversight for the Atmospheric, Earth, and Ocean Sciences and the global change programs of the National Science Foundation (NSF). He was also a professor and academic administrator at the University of New Hampshire. 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. He has also held appointments at the Woods Hole Institution of Oceanography, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Washington, and Case Western Reserve University.

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