Bette Otto-Bliesner
Bette Otto-Bliesner
Bette Otto-Bliesner received her M.S. and Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder Colorado. Her research is focused on using computer-based models of Earth’s climate to investigate past climate change and climate variability across a wide range of time scales. Otto-Bliesner is particularly interested in climate change forced naturally over the glacial-interglacial cycles of the last million years.
She serves on the Scientific Steering Committees for the International Geosphere- Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Past Global Changes (PAGES) and the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project PMIP2. She was a lead author for “Chapter 6, Paleoclimate,” of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 and a committee member for the National Academy of Sciences report on “Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Past 1000-2000 Years: Synthesis of Current Understanding and Challenges for the Future.”
Otto-Bliesner is active in education and outreach activities. She is a member of the NCAR Exhibits Science Advisory Committee. She has been involved in American Geophysical Union activities, including serving as the first chair of the Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Focus Group, and on the committee that drafted the revised AGU Position Statement on the “Human Impacts on Climate.” For more information on her work and links to her publications, please see: http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/ottobli/