Rob Dunbar

Rob is the WM Keck Professor of Earth Sciences and a Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. He leads a research group that works on past, present and future climate change and its impact on oceans and coastal environments. He regularly works with governments as well as the United Nations and several NGOs to help develop and implement solutions to environmental and resource problems. Rob is an experienced field scientist and has led over 70 research expeditions and voyages since 1980 with most focused-on Antarctica and Indo-Pacific regions. He has studied the impact of sea ice on local and regional climates, as well as unique microbial communities that exist within and beneath sea ice. In 2016, he was awarded the medal of Antarctic Research by the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR). He currently serves on the US National Academies Board on Atmospheric Science and as a Trustee for the Consortium for Ocean Leadership.