Jonathan Taylor Overpeck is an American climate scientist.[1] Since 2017, he has served as the Samuel A. Graham Dean of the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability.[2] Overpeck has authored more than 220 scientific publications. In 2007, he was a coordinating lead author on a report for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.[3]
Overpeck obtained an undergraduate degree in geology from Hamilton Collegein Clinton, New York.[4] He has an MSc and PhD in Geological Sciences (1981 and 1985) from Brown University in Rhode Island and then became a Post-doctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University jointly with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.[5]
Prior to joining the University of Michigan, Overpeck was faculty at the University of Arizona, where he was the director of Institute for the Study of Planet Earth.[1][3] He became the Samuel A. Graham Dean of the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability in 2017.[2] He has been active in university,[6] city[7] and state[8] efforts to mitigate climate change. In 2015, Overpeck was elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union.[9]
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