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Brian O'Neill Brian O’Neill is a Scientist III in the Institute for the Study of Society and Environment (ISSE) at NCAR. He also leads the Population and Climate Change (PCC) Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. He holds a Ph.D. in Earth Systems Science and an M.S. in Applied Science, both from New York University.

Brian’s research interests are in the field of integrated assessment modeling of climate change, which links socio-economic and natural science elements of the climate change issue in order to address applied, policy-relevant questions. Particular areas of focus include the relationship between demographic change and greenhouse gas emissions, the characterization of uncertainty and its role in decision analysis, and scenario analyses linking long-term climate change goals to shorter-term actions.

He has worked as a member of the science staff of the Environmental Defense Fund in New York, and as an Assistant and Associate Professor (Research) at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. In 2004, he received a European Young Investigator (EURYI) award which provides principal funding for the PCC Program at IIASA. He has published in a variety of journals, including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science – USA, and Population and Development Review. He has also served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report in a volume on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (Working Group II), and for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) in a volume on Scenarios.

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