Peter Gleick
Peter Gleick | |
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Born | 1956 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley; Yale University |
Occupation(s) | President-emeritus and co-founder of the Pacific Institute |
Organization(s) | Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security |
Notable work | The World's Water, Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water, A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy |
Website | pacinst |
Peter H. Gleick (
In 2006 he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Gleick received the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) Ven Te Chow Memorial Award in 2011,[5] and that same year he and the Pacific Institute were awarded the first U.S. Water Prize. In 2014, The Guardian newspaper listed Gleick as one of the world's top 10 "water tweeters."[6] In 2018, Gleick received the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.[7] In 2019, Boris Mints Institute of Tel Aviv University awarded Gleick its annual BMI Prize as "an exceptional individual who has devoted his/her research and academic life to the solution of a strategic global challenge."[8] In 2023, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [9]
Career
Gleick received a B.S. from Yale University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on hydroclimatology. His dissertation was the first to model the regional impact of climate change on water resources.[10][11][12] Gleick produced some of the earliest work on the links between environmental issues, especially water and climate change, and international security, identifying a long history of conflicts over water resources and the use of water as both a weapon and target of war.[13][14][15] He also pioneered the concepts of the soft water path,[16] and peak water.[17][18]
Gleick worked as the Deputy Assistant for Energy and the Environment to the Governor of California from 1980 to 1982.[19]
In 2003, he was awarded a
His 2010, book Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water, published by Island Press, won the Nautilus Book Award in the Conscious Media/Journalism/Investigative Reporting category.[20][21]
In 2011, Gleick received the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) Ven Te Chow Memorial Award.[5] Also in 2011, Dr. Gleick and the Pacific Institute were awarded the first U.S. Water Prize.[22]
In 2012, Oxford University Press published a book written by Gleick and colleagues: "A 21st Century U.S. Water Policy,"[23] and he was named one of 25 "Water Heroes" by Xylem.[24] In 2013, Gleick was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards.[25]
In early 2013, Gleick launched a new blog at
Gleick has also been featured in a wide range of water-related documentary films, including
Pacific Institute
Peter Gleick's research addresses the cross-disciplinary connections among global environmental issues, with a focus on freshwater and climate change. In 1987, with two colleagues, Gleick started the
Climate change and water
Gleick’s Ph.D dissertation from the University of California, Berkeley, and his early research, focused on the impacts of human-caused climate change for freshwater resources. He was the first to link the output of large-scale general circulation models of the climate with a detailed regional hydrologic model to evaluate how changes in temperature and precipitation would alter streamflow, snowpack, and soil moisture, with a focus on the Sacramento River basin in California.[41][42] Among other results, this work was the first to call attention to the risks that rising temperatures would lead to accelerated snowmelt and a shift to earlier runoff in mountainous areas, leading to increased winter flood risk and reduced spring and summer runoff.[43] Many of the impacts anticipated by this early work have now been observed.[44][45] Gleick also served as co-lead author of the Water Sector Report of the first National Climate Assessment, published in 2000.[46] The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is a United States government interagency ongoing effort[47] on climate change science conducted under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990.[48][49] The NCA is a major product[50] of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) which coordinates a team of experts and receives input from a Federal Advisory Committee.
Environment and security
As a post-doctoral fellow in 1987 and 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley, Gleick published some of the earliest work addressing the risks of environmental factors for national and international security, including both climate change and water resources. Up until this time, most academic work on international security was linked to realpolitik and superpower relationships between the United States and the Soviet Union. In the 1980s, tensions between the superpowers shifted after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Simultaneously, there was growing concern about a far broader range of threats to peace, including environmental threats associated with the political implications of resource use or large-scale pollution. By the mid-1980s, this field of study was becoming known as "environmental security" and it is now widely acknowledged that environmental factors play both direct and indirect roles in both political disputes and violent conflicts. Prominent early researchers in the field include
The human right to water
Gleick also did some of the earliest work defining a
Current work
Gleick is the editor of the biennial series on the state of the world's water, called The World's Water,[4] published by Island Press, Washington, D.C., regularly provides testimony to the United States Congress and state legislatures, and has published many scientific articles. The ninth volume of "The World's Water" was released in early February 2018.[64] He serves as a major source of information on water and climate issues for the media, and has been featured on CNBC, CNN, Fox Business, Fresh Air with Terry Gross,[65] NPR, in articles in The New Yorker,[66] and many other outlets.
Gleick lectures dozens of times a year on global water resource challenges and solutions, climate science and policy, and the integrity of science. In 2008, he presented the
In September 2014, Gleick gave a keynote address at the "Global Climate Negotiations: Lessons from California" Symposium, co-hosted by the USC Schwarzenegger Institute with the California Air Resources Board and the R20 Regions of Climate Action (R20) in Sacramento, which highlighted the different policies applied by the state of California facing the impact of climate change.,[70][71] In February 2015, Gleick's work on the "Water-Energy Nexus" was highlighted in an invited keynote at the Georgetown University 2015 Annual Symposium of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.[72]
Other recent lectures include a keynote at the 2017 Symposium on the Human Right to Water in November 2017 at McGeorge School of Law,[73] a keynote “The Beacon of Science in a Fact-Free Fog” at the 2019 SkeptiCal Conference,[74] and a 2019 presentation at the World Bank’s Water Week on “Water, Climate, and Security: Building Resilience in a Fragile World.”[75]
In 2023, Gleick released a new book “The Three Ages of Water,” published by PublicAffairs/Hachette, receiving favorable reviews from David Wallace-Wells, Elizabeth Kolbert, Jerry Brown, and Greta Thunberg.[76]
Heartland Institute incident
On February 20, 2012, Gleick announced he was responsible for the unauthorized distribution of
Honors
- 1999 Elected Academician of the International Water Academy, Oslo, Norway
- 2001 Named by the BBC as a "Visionary on the Environment" in its Essential Guide to the 21st Century
- 2001 Appointed to Water Science and Technology Board of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
- 2003 Genius Award"
- 2005 Elected Fellow of the International Water Resources Association
- 2006 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2006 Elected Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Selected to Present the United States National Academy of Sciences, April 23, 2008, Washington, D.C.
- 2008 Named by Wired Magazine's Smart List as one of "15 people the next President should listen to"[85]
- 2009 Keynote Lecturer at the Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota[86]
- 2010 Named "Visionary: A Catalyst for an Enlightened Future" in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, January 3, 2010
- 2011 Winner, along with the Pacific Institute of the first U.S. Water Prize
- 2011 Winner of the IWRA Ven Te Chow Memorial Award
- 2012 Nominee for the Rockefeller Foundation Next Century Innovators Award.[87]
- 2012 Named one of 25 "Water Heroes" by Xylem.[88]
- 2013 Honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards, March 21, 2013
- 2014 Named one of world's "Top 10 Water Tweeters" by the Guardian.[89]
- 2015 Received the Leadership and Achievement Award from the Council of Scientific Society Presidents.[90]
- 2015 Received the Carla Bard Environmental Education Award from the Bay Institute.[91]
- 2018 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization
- 2019 Awarded the Boris Mints Institute Prize.[8]
- 2023 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [92]
Books
- Peter H. Gleick (editor), Water in Crisis: A Guide to the World's Fresh Water Resources. Oxford University Press, New York, 1993. ISBN 978-0-19-507628-8
- Peter H. Gleick, The World's Water 1998–1999 (Volume 1): The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Island Press, Washington D.C., 1998.
- Peter H. Gleick, The World's Water 2000–2001 (Volume 2): The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Island Press, Washington D.C., 2000.
- Peter H. Gleick and associates, The World's Water 2002–2003 (Volume 3): The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Island Press, Washington D.C., 2002.
- Peter H. Gleick and associates, The World's Water 2004–2005 (Volume 4): The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Island Press, Washington D.C., 2004.
- Peter H. Gleick and associates, The World's Water 2006–2007 (Volume 5): The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Island Press, Washington D.C., 2006.
- Peter H. Gleick and associates, The World's Water 2008–2009 (Volume 6); The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Island Press, Washington D.C., 2008.
- Peter H. Gleick and associates, The World's Water (Volume 7): The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Island Press, Washington D.C., 2011.
- Peter H. Gleick, Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water. Island Press, Washington D.C., 2010. Website: Bottled and Sold
- Juliet Christian-Smith and Peter H. Gleick (editors), A 21st Century U.S. Water Policy. Oxford University Press, New York, 2012.
- Peter H. Gleick and associates, The World's Water (Volume 8): The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Island Press, Washington D.C., 2014.
- Peter H. Gleick and associates, The World's Water (Volume 9): The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Pacific Institute, Oakland, California, 2018.
- Peter H. Gleick. The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future. PublicAffairs/Hachette, 2023 ISBN 9781541702271.[93]
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