Glen M. MacDonald

MacDonald's research focuses on high latitude feedbacks between climate change and ecosystems, including methane emissions, and between Pacific Ocean temperature and persistent drought in various part of the world. He has linked these dynamics to past human impacts and to forecast those impacts under future climate change. These include forecast of mega-droughts in the American southwest and considerations of past climate influences on early civilizations. MacDonald has published over 140 peer-reviewed journal articles, for which he won the Cowles Award for Excellence in Publication by the AAG Biogeography Specialty Group in 1999, and again in 2004. He has also won the James Parsons Distinguished Career Award. In addition to the American Association of Arts and Sciences he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a Guggenheim Fellow.