The Global Cryosphere: Past, Present and Future

About Roger BarryThian Yew Gan

Roger Barry is Director of the World Data Center for Glaciology a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and a Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder. He served as Director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center from 1981-2008. His teaching and research has been in climate change arctic and mountain climates and snow and ice processes. He has published 20 textbooks more than 200 articles and supervised 55 graduate students. He was co-Vice Chair of the Climate and Cryosphere Project of the World Climate Research Programme from 2000-2005. Roger was a Guggenheim Fellow (1982-1983) and a Fulbright Teaching Fellow (Moscow 2001). He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He is a winner of the Goldthwait Polar Medal (2006); the Founder''s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society London (2007); the F. Matthes award of the Cryospheric Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (2007); and the Humboldt Prize (2009-2011). He shared the Nobel Peace Prize with other team members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007). He has been a Visiting Professor in Australia (1975) France (2004) Germany (1994 2009 2010) Japan (1983) New Zealand (1986) Russia (2001) Switzerland (1983 1990 1997) and the United Kingdom (1997). He is fluent in French German and Russian. Thian Yew Gan is a Professor at the University of Alberta Edmonton and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. His teaching and research has been in snow hydrology remote sensing hydrologic modeling hydroclimatology data analysis climate change impact on hydrologic processes and water resources management and planning. Thian has supervised 30 graduate students and published over 60 refereed papers in various international journals of the American Geophysical Union American Meteorological Society Royal Meteorological Society Elsevier Science the American Society of Civil Engineers and others. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) (2010); Visiting Scientist at Cemagraf France (2009); a CIRES Visiting Fellow at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) of the University of Colorado Boulder (2007 2008); Guest University Professor at the Technical University of Munich (2006-2007); Adjunct Professor at Utah State University (1998-2005); Honorary Professor at Xian University of Technology China (since 2004); Honorary Professor at Yangtze University China (2010-2013); Visiting Professor at Kyoto University and JSPS Fellow Japan (1999-2000); Guest Professor at Saga University Japan (1999); Assistant Professor at the Asian Institute of Technology of Thailand (1989-1990); and regional hydrologist of the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (1992-1993) on snow measurements and mapping at the Arctic.