National Climate Service - What Does It Mean For Producers?

Peter Schultz is the director of the U.S. Climate
Change Science Program Office (CCSPO). His
current responsibilities include management of
CCSPO’s program-wide scientific integration,
planning, prioritization, and assessment
activities through coordination with the CCSP
director (a senior manager from NOAA), the
CCSP principals, and the CCSP interagency
working groups. He joined CCSPO in 2004 as
the associate director for science Integration.
Prior to that he worked for several years at
the National Academies where he directed or
co-directed a dozen scientific studies related
to global environmental variability and change.
He also directed the creation of the National
Academies new museum exhibition on climate
change. Schultz has also worked at the NOAA
Climate Analysis Center on global-scale remote
sensing of vegetation, and as a post-doc
at Penn State on integrated assessment of
climate change. He holds MS and PhD degrees
in geosciences from Penn State where he
conducted research using climate, carbon cycle,
and integrated assessment models. He holds a
BS in geology from Virginia Tech. In his spare
time, he enjoys coaching and playing soccer and
hockey, competing in kayak slalom, and skiing.