Breakout Session I

Global/U.S. Climate Change and Impacts

			William Easterling
			Dr. Easterling is a Professor of Geography (with a courtesy appointment in Agronomy) and Dean of the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. he was trained as an economic geographer and climatologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His current research focuses on: African-Related Studies of Climate and Decision-Making, Climate Change and Food Security, Crop Modeling of Climate-Plant Interactions, Human-Environment Interactions, Integrated Regional Assessment, and Adaptation to Climate Change. He Received his B.A. in Geography and History, his M.S. in Economic Geography, and his Ph.D. in Geography-Climatology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

			Jerry Hatfield
			Dr. Jerry L. Hatfield is the Laboratory Director of the USDA-ARS National Soil Tilth Laboratory in Ames, Iowa. He received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 1975 in the area of Agricultural Climatology and Statistics a M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Kentucky in 1972, and B.S. from Kansas State University in Agronomy in 1971. He served on the faculty of the University of California-Davis as a biometeorologist from 1975 through 1983 and then joined USDA-Agricultural Research Service in Lubbock, Texas as the Research Leader of the Plant Stress and Water Conservation Research Unit from 1983 through 1989. He was appointed Laboratory Director of the National Soil Tilth Laboratory in 1989. Dr. Hatfield currently serves as the Technical Leader for the air quality projects within USDA-ARS and responsible for fostering interactions among research locations and is co-leader of the Air Quality Working Group of the USDA-EPA AFO Research Task Force. He was part of the IPCC process that received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the author or co-author of 354 publications and the editor of 10 monographs including Nitrogen in the Environment: Sources, Problems and Management.