Rebecca Jane Barthelmie is an atmospheric scientist and scholar of wind energy, including the effects of climate change on wind energy, estimation of the power production of wind farms, and the wakes created downwind from wind turbines. She has been called "the recognized expert on British offshore wind farms". [1] Educated in England, she has worked in Denmark, Scotland, and the US, where she is a Croll Fellow and professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University.
Barthelmie has a Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia, [2] where she was affiliated with the Climatic Research Unit from 1985 to 1992. [3] After working for the Risø National Laboratory in Denmark (which later became incorporated into the Technical University of Denmark) she moved to the University of Edinburgh in Scotland as a professor of engineering in 2006. [4]
She became a professor of atmospheric science and sustainability at Indiana University Bloomington in the US before moving in 2014 to her present position at Cornell University. [2] She was Otto Mønsted Guest Professor at the Technical University of Denmark in 2015, [5] and a Fulbright Scholar there in 2018; [6] she continues to hold an honorary professorship at the university. [7]
She is a former co-editor-in-chief of the journal Wind Energy . [8]
Barthelmie was the 2009 recipient of the Academy Scientific Award of the European Wind Energy Academy. [1]
Indiana University Bloomington is a public research university in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. It is the flagship campus of Indiana University and its largest campus, with over 40,000 students. Established as the state's seminary in 1820, the name was changed to "Indiana College" in 1829 and to "Indiana University" in 1838.
David Starr Jordan was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist during his research career. Prior to serving as president of Stanford University, he served as president of Indiana University from 1884 to 1891.
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Michael Alexander McRobbie is an Australian–American computer scientist and university administrator. He served as the 18th president of Indiana University from 2007 to 2021. Upon stepping down from the IU presidency, McRobbie was replaced by Pamela Whitten, who became the 19th president of Indiana University on July 1, 2021. On July 1, 2021, he assumed the titles of university chancellor, president emeritus and university professor. He is the third person to serve as university chancellor in the university's more than 200-year-old history.
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Jean P. Palutikof is a climate scientist and is founding director of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. She has held this position since 2008. Prior to this, Palutikof was based at the UK Met Office during which time she managed the production of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report for Working Group II.
Lisa Pratt is an American biogeochemist and astrobiologist who served as the 7th Planetary Protection Officer for NASA from 2018 to 2021 under President Donald Trump. Her academic work as a student, professor, and researcher on organisms and their respective environments prepared her for the position, in which she was responsible for protecting Earth and other planets in the solar system from traveling microbes. She is a Provost Professor Emeritus of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences for Indiana University Bloomington.
Virginia J. Vitzthum is an American anthropologist and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University, where she is also a senior scientist at the Kinsey Institute. She is also the director of the Kinsey Institute's Evolutionary Anthropology (EVA) Laboratory and the co-director of their Human Biology Laboratory. Her research focuses on women's reproductive health in different cultures around the world. She originally joined the faculty of Indiana University in 2008, and was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011. In 2017, she was awarded a Fulbright Program fellowship at the University of Iceland.
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Kimberly A. Novick is an environmental scientist and a Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research mostly includes the study of land-atmosphere interactions. She received the Thomas Hilker Early Career Award in Biogeosciences from American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2019.
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Nicola Lucia B. Pohl is an American chemist who is the Joan & Marvin Carmack Chair at Indiana University Bloomington. She also serves as Associate Dean of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. Her research considers new approaches to make and analyse sugars. In 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Laura Henderson Lewis is an American electronic materials scientist and engineer. She is a distinguished university professor at Northeastern University, having previously served as the department chair of Northeastern University's chemical engineering department. Prior to her Northeastern University position, she was a research group leader and associate department chair in the nanoscience department of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
Patricia Silveyra is an Argentine-American lung physiologist, professor, and chair of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health. Her research interests include sex differences in innate immunity, lung disease, air pollution exposure effects, and mechanisms by which sex hormones control lung immunity.
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