Jonathan Overpeck

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Jonathan Taylor Overpeck, born in 1957, is an American climate scientist. Since 2017 he has served as the Samuel A. Graham Dean of the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability. He has written more than 220 scientific publications. In 2007 he was a coordinating lead author for an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, and the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for that work. He studied geology at Hamilton College and earned his MSc and PhD in Geological Sciences from Brown University in 1981 and 1985. He did postdoctoral research at Columbia University with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Before joining Michigan, he was on the faculty at the University of Arizona, where he directed the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth. In 2015 he was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union.