Dr. Gunter Weller
Professor of Geophysics Emeritus
Alaska Climate Research Center
Geophysical Institute
Education:
- Diploma Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, Aeronautical Engineering, 1956
- B. Sc. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Physics, 1962
- M. Sc. University of Melbourne, Meteorology, 1964 (Honors)
- Ph. D. University of Melbourne, Meteorology/Glaciology, 1968
PAST POSITIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Experimental Officer, Weapons Research Establishment, Australia, 1957-58
Meteorologist, Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, Australia, 1959-60
Meteorologist in Charge, Mawson Station, Antarctica, 1961
Research Assistant, Meteorology Department, University of Melbourne, 1962-63
Glaciologist, Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions, January 1964-June 1967 (Mawson Station, Antarctica, 1965)
Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, July 1967-June 1968 (Plateau Station, Antarctica)
Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, July 1968-June 1970
Associate Professor, Geophysical Institute, July 1970-June 1973
Program Manager, Polar Meteorology, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, May 1972-June 1974 (on leave from UA)
Professor of Geophysics, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, July 1973- Feb. 1997
Acting Assistant Director, Geophysical Institute, July 1974-December 1974
Project Manager, NOAA Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program, Arctic Project Office, University of Alaska, Jan. 1975-Sept.1982
Associate Director for Planning, Geophysical Institute, Jan.1978-Dec. 1983
Deputy Director and Assistant Research Director, Meteorology and Glaciology, Geophysical Institute, January 1984-August 1986
Project Director, NASA-University of Alaska "Alaska SAR Facility", University of Alaska, September 1986-December 1993
Deputy Director, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, June 1990-Feb. 1997
PRESENT POSITIONS
Director,
Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research, University of Alaska Fairbanks, March 1990-present
Director, Science Management Office,
NSF ARCSS-LAII: Land-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions Studies, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Jan. 1994-present
Director,
NOAA-UAF Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR), University of Alaska Fairbanks, May 1994-present
Professor of Geophysics Emeritus, May 1997-present
MAJOR SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES
NATIONAL:
- Polar Research Board, National Research Council, 1975-79, 1984-90 (Chairman of the Board, 1985-90)
- Founding Chairman, Committee on Polar Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, 1981-83
- Climate Research Committee, National Research Council, 1981-84
- Executive Secretary, AAAS Arctic Division, 1982-93, (president 1973-74)
- Chairman, ERS-1 SAR Sea Ice Study Team, NASA, 1982-85
- Board of Trustees, Universities Space Research Association, 1983-84
- Polar Oceans Climate Studies Panel, National Research Council, 1984-87
- Executive Committee, NOAA Panel on Climate and Global Change, 1987-90
- Board on Global Change, National Research Council, 1991-94
INTERNATIONAL:
- President, International Commission on Polar Meteorology, IUGG, 1980-83
- Chairman, IGBP Steering Committee, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1988-92
- Chairman, Working Group on Global Change, International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), 1990-97
- Project Leader, Bering Sea Impacts Study (BESIS), IASC, 1994-present Group of Specialists on Global Change and the Antarctic (GLOCHANT), SCAR, 1997-present
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- American Geophysical Union
- American Meteorological Society
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
- Arctic Institute of North America, Fellow
- International Glaciological Society
HONORS
- British Polar Medal, awarded by the Commonwealth of Australia, 1969 Names of geographic features: Mt. Weller, 67°S, 51°E, Antarctica (Australia) Weller Bank, 71°N, 151°E, Arctic Ocean (US)
- Edith Bullock Prize for Excellence (incl. $15,000), University of Alaska, 1993
PUBLICATIONS:
More than 100 publications, most of them in refereed journals, on meteorology, glaciology, climate and global change, satellite remote sensing, and resource and environmental problems in the polar regions. The most recent papers include:
Weller, G., 1996. Tundra climate, In: Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, Oxford University Press, 783-786
Weller, G. and P. Anderson, eds., 1998. Implications of global change in Alaska and the Bering Sea region. Proceedings of a workshop on 3-6 June 1997, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 157 pp.
Weller, G., 1998. Regional impacts of climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic. Annals of Glaciology, 27, 543-552.
Weller, G., 1998. International programs in the Western Arctic/Bering Sea region. Arctic Research of the United States, 12, 3-6.
Weller, G., 1999. The weather and climate of the Arctic. In: The Arctic-A Guide to Research in the Natural and Social Sciences, ed. M. Nuttall and T. Callaghan, Harwood Academic Press, (in press).
Weller, G. 1999. "Glacier", Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia (in press).
Weller, G., 1999. "Iceberg", Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia (in press).
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The Alaska Climate Research Center is funded by the State of Alaska.
Gunter Weller: gunter@gi.alaska.edu
Last reviewed or update: 28 November, 2000