U.S. House of Representatives - 2010

ENGINEERING THE CLIMATE:
RESEARCH NEEDS AND STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION


TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS v
BACKGROUND 1
SUMMARY OF HEARINGS 3
RESEARCH NEEDS 7
U.S. RESEARCH CAPACITIES 8
National Science Foundation 9
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 12
Department of Energy 17
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 22
Environmental Protection Agency 26
U.S. Department of Agriculture 28
Other Federal Agencies 30
ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS 32
GENERAL FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 38
ADDITIONAL SOURCES 45

APPENDIX : United States—United Kingdom Joint Agreement 47

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Cornell University's Climate Change Debunker Doug MacMartin - Ph.D
Debunks Dane Wigington's ... GeoEngineeringWatch.org ... lol

The SilverLining Safe Climate Research Initiative has awarded a $500,000 grant to a Cornell engineering researcher, who will model the effects of introducing reflective aerosols into the stratosphere, which could deflect enough sunbeams to reduce Earth’s temperature and limit climate change impact.

Doug MacMartin, senior research associate in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will lead a team from the Cornell Climate Engineering group. The SilverLining grant will be matched by an anonymous donor for a $1 million total grant, administered through the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, which provided seed funding.

Douglas MacMartin
Senior Research Associate
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Senior Lecturer

dgm224@cornell.edu

Biography
Douglas MacMartin is a Senior Research Fellow in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University.  His research focuses on climate engineering (also known as solar geoengineering or climate intervention) with the aim of helping to develop the knowledge base necessary to support informed future societal decisions in this challenging and controversial field.  He has published extensively on the subject, and in addition to public and academic presentations has provided briefings to the UN Environment Program and testimony to the US Congress, and was a member of the US National Academies panel that made recommendations on both research and governance in March 2021. He received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 1992; previous positions include United Technologies Research Center (1994-2000) and the California Institute of Technology (2000-2015).  His research is funded by NSF and by the Cornell Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.

Research Interests
Dr. MacMartin works at the interface between engineering feedback analysis and climate dynamics, using tools from engineering dynamics and control to solve critical questions in climate science. His primary focus is on solar geoengineering or albedo modification (understanding whether we can "control" Earth's climate), he also conducts research on other applications in climate dynamics, such as climate variability (e.g. of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or the El Nino/Southern Oscillation). Research interests also include dynamics and control of structural vibration, noise, and flows.
* Space Science and Engineering
* Energy and the Environment

Selected Publications
* MacMartin, D G., B. Kravitz, J C. Long, P J Rasch.  2016. "Geoengineering with stratospheric aerosols: What do we not know after a decade of research?."  Earth's Future 4 (11): 543-548.
* MacMartin, D G., B Kravitz.  2016. "Dynamic climate emulators for solar geoengineering."  Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 16 (24): 15789-15799.
* Kravitz, B., D G. MacMartin, P J. Rasch, H Wang.  2016. "Technical Note: Simultaneous fully dynamic characterization of multiple input-output relationships in climate models."  Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 1-20.
* MacMartin, D G., L. Zanna, E Tziperman.  2016. "Suppression of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Variability at Increased CO 2."  Journal of Climate 29 (11): 4155-4164.
* Kravitz, B., D G. MacMartin, H. Wang, P J Rasch.  2016. "Geoengineering as a design problem."  Earth System Dynamics 7 (2): 469-497
 
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Selected Awards and Honors
* Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (Cornell University) 2016
* AACC O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper, Applications (American Control Conference) 2011
* Outstanding Achievement Awards for technical contributions in helicopter cabin active noise control for laboratory demonstration and successful flight test (UTRC) 1994

Education
* B.A.Sc. (Engineering Science), University of Toronto, 1987
* S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1990
* Ph.D. (controls; minor structural dynamics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1992
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Websites
* Climate Engineering

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