Dr. Christopher Potter is currently a Research Scientist in the Ecosystem Science and Technology Branch at NASA-Ames. He holds a Ph.D. and a Master's degree in forest ecology from Emory University. This year he was awarded NASA's Public Service Medal for development of the first and only computer model for global ecosystem exchange of all major biogenic trace gases with the atmosphere. His research at Ames on computer simulations of greenhouse gas fluxes from the terrestrial biosphere using satellite data drivers (otherwise known as the NASA-Ames "Breathing Earth" model) has been prominently featured in NASA's promotional documents for the Earth Observing System Interdisciplinary Science Program. He currently sits on the influential Public Affairs Committee of the Ecological Society of America and has contributed to several recent reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has also served on the National Research Council Steering Committee on Global Change Data Information Systems. In addition, he has extensive international experience in science and technology policy, having served for two years as a Diplomacy Fellow (sponsored by AAAS) with the U. S. Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C. He came to Ames in 1990 as a National Research Council (NRC) Associate. He is the author on over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

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