Fonna Forman (UC San Diego): Professor of Political Science and Director, Center on Global Justice, UC San Diego. Co-Chair, UC Global Climate Leadership Council.
Veerabhadran Ramanathan (UC San Diego): Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Climate Sciences and Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. Council Member, Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Scott Friese (UC Office of the President): Assistant Director, Instructional Design, UC Online, UC Office of the President. Program lead for systemwide learning initiatives.
David Ackerly (UC Berkeley): Co-PI, Bending the Curve: Risk and Resilience expansion
Fonna Forman (UC San Diego): Vice-Chair of the Bending the Curve Report; PI of the Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions course.
Micah Farver (UC San Diego): Research Assistant, Bending the Curve expansion activities.
Scott Friese (UC Office of the President): Program lead for Bending the Curve course design and development; producer of Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions digital textbook; liaison for licensing inquiries.
Hahrie Han (UC Santa Barbara; now at Johns Hopkins): Lead author of Bending the Curve report; co-chair for creating the hybrid course; chapter contributor to the Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions digital textbook
Astrid Hsu (UC San Diego): Production coordinator of the Bending the Curve hybrid course
Adam Millard-Ball (UC Santa Cruz): Co-editor of and chapter contributor to the Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions digital textbook
Michelle Niemann: Co-editor of and chapter contributor to the Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions digital textbook
Christine Pereira (UC San Diego): Lead assistant to the editor and the producer of the Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutionsdigital textbook
Veerabhadran Ramanathan (UC San Diego): Chair of the Bending the Curve Report; founding PI of the Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions course; editor of Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions digital textbook.
Alan Roper (UC Office of the President): Instructional designer and developer of Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions hybrid and online courses.
Nicola Ulibarri (UC Irvine): Co-PI, Bending the Curve: Risk and Resilience expansion.
Other major contributors: The 23 lecturers who taped video lectures for the Bending the Curve course (see the course overview); the Educational Technology Service’s multimedia services studio at UCSD, which provided executive production for course videos (with production support from seven additional campus studios);the 21 authors of chapters for the Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions digital textbook (see textbook’s table of contents) ; and BookMatters for layout and production of the digital textbook; the California Digital Library for hosting Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions digital textbook.
Funding: Course funding provided by the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative and UC Online at the University of California, Office of the President; and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center on Global Justice, and Teaching and Learning Commons at the University of California, San Diego. Production of Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions digital textbook was funded through a Next Generation Learning Challenge grant from EDUCAUSE.
The following individuals contributed recorded lecture videos to the Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions undergraduate course.
David Ackerly (UC Berkeley): Ecology, Conservation
Amir Agha Kouchak (UC Irvine): Hydrology, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Maura Allaire (UC Irvine): Water Economics, Policy
Emma Aronson (UC Riverside): Environmental Microbiology
Max Auffhammer (UC Berkeley): Environmental Economics
Matthew Barth (UC Riverside): Transportation
Tarik Benmarhnia (UC San Diego): Epidemiology, Climate Science
Jack Brouwer (UC Irvine): Fuel Cell Sciences
Jon Christensen (UC Los Angeles): Communications
Steven Davis (UC Irvine): Earth Systems Sciences
Fonna Forman (UC San Diego): Political Science and Global Justice
Hahrie Han (UC Santa Barbara; now at Johns Hopkins): Political Science
Mark Jacobsen (UC San Diego): Economics
Crystal Kolden (UC Merced): Wildfire, Management of Complex Systems
Richard Matthew (UC Irvine): Urban Planning, Public Policy
John R. Miles (UC Irvine): Religion
Adam Millard-Ball (UC Santa Cruz): Environmental Studies
Jyoti Mishra (UC San Diego): Psychiatry
David Pellow (UC Santa Cruz): Environmental Studies and Global Justice
Per Peterson (UC Berkeley): Nuclear Science
Keith Pezzoli (UC San Diego): Urban Studies
Daniel Press (UC Santa Cruz): Environmental Studies
Veerabhadran Ramanathan (UC San Diego): Climate Sciences
Eric Rignot (UC Irvine): Glaciology
Scott Samuelsen (UC Irvine): Fuel Cell Sciences
Brett Sanders (UC Irvine): Flood Modeling, Civil and Environmental Engineering
David Sedlak (UC Berkeley): Water, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Whendee Silver (UC Berkeley): Soil Science
Gina Solomon (UC San Francisco): Global Health
Richard Somerville (UC San Diego): Communications
Daniel Sperling (UC Davis): Transportation
Matthew St. Clair (UC Office of the President): Sustainability
Arianne Tehrani (UC San Francisco): Health Equity
Mary Evelyn Tucker (Yale University): Religion
Nicola Ulibarri (UC Irvine): Urban Planning and Public Policy
David Victor (UC San Diego): Political Science
Paul Watson (GlobalArc, CEO):
Sheri Weiser (UC San Francisco): Global Medicine
Durwood Zaelke (UC Santa Barbara): Environmental Law
The following individuals contributed chapters to the Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions digital textbook.
Roger Aines (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory): Clean Energy
Max Auffhammer (UC Berkeley): Environmental Economics
Matthew Barth (UC Riverside): Transportation
Jonathank Cole (MiraCosta College): Physics
Fonna Forman (UC San Diego): Political Science and Global Justice
Hahrie Han (UC Santa Barbara; now at Johns Hopkins): Political Science
Mark Jacobsen (UC San Diego): Economics
Adam Millard-Ball (UC Santa Cruz): Environmental Studies
Michelle Niemann: Social Sciences
David Pellow (UC Santa Cruz): Environmental Studies and Global Justice
Keith Pezzoli (UC San Diego): Urban Studies
Daniel Press (UC Santa Cruz): Environmental Studies
Veerabhadran Ramanathan (UC San Diego): Climate Sciences
Eric Rignot (UC Irvine): Glaciology
Scott Samuelsen (UC Irvine): Fuel Cell Sciences
Whendee Silver (UC Berkeley): Soil Science
Gina Solomon (UC San Francisco): Global Health
Richard Somerville (UC San Diego): Communications