Global Warming

Patricia Glick, Senior Climate Specialist, Seattle, WA
Glick has been instrumental in helping NWF build a targeted grassroots global warming campaign, recognizing the critical importance of bringing the issue of global warming home to Americans in order to galvanize them toward action. Much of her work has focused on translating the science of global warming and its impacts on fish and wildlife into creative and understandable outreach tools. Titles she has authored include The Birdwatcher’s Guide to Global Warming, The Waterfowler’s Guide to Global Warming and The Gardener’s Guide to Global Warming. In addition, Glick conducts presentations and works closely with the media to help communicate the issue to stakeholders and the public. Prior to joining NWF, Glick served two years as a Senior Fellow for the Sierra Club in Washington, D.C., where she worked with the Club’s Global Warming and Energy Program. Glick received a master’s degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor’s degree from Sweet Briar College in Virginia.

Dr. Douglas Inkley, Senior Science Advisor, Reston, VA
Inkley is a certified wildlife biologist with expertise in ecology and wildlife management, and is the National Wildlife Federation’s Senior Scientist. Inkley has worked on a broad diversity of wildlife issues including endangered species conservation, state wildlife funding, national wildlife refuge legislation, waterfowl conservation and wetlands conservation. Frequently working with the media and as a public speaker, his current focus is on the impacts of global climate change on fish and wildlife resources. Inkley served as Chair of The Wildlife Society’s Global Climate Change and Wildlife Technical Review Committee and was the lead author of the 2004 report Global Climate Change and Wildlife in North America published by The Wildlife Society. He received the 2005 Conservation Education Award from The Wildlife Society as the lead aurthor of the Global Climate Change and Wildlife in North America. He received the 2007 Communications Award from Ducks Unlimited for work on publicizing climate change impacts on wildlife. Inkley studied wildlife ecology throughout his academic career, with degrees in zoology and physiology (Ph.D.-University of Wyoming), natural resources planning (M.S.-University of Vermont) and wildlife management (B.S.-Michigan State University).

Dr. Amanda Staudt, Climate Scientist, Washington, DC
Staudt provides scientific expertise for the National Wildlife Federation’s activities on global warming. Prior to joining NWF, Staudt was a senior program officer at the National Academies, where her work focused on climate change, air quality, and weather impacts on transportation. As a key liaison between the scientific community and the federal agencies that support climate change research, she directed the National Academies Climate Research Committee and helped author more than a dozen reports on topics including the U.S. strategy for supporting climate change research, radiative forcing of climate, past records of surface temperature, and practices for effective global change assessments. She holds a Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences and an A.B. in environmental engineering and sciences from Harvard University. She is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Jeremy Symons, Director, Global Warming Campaign,
Washington, DC
Symons oversees NWF’s global warming campaign and is the organization’s chief lobbyist on energy and global warming issues. He has served as a spokesperson on environmental and energy issues on NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, CNN, ABC World News Tonight, National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and other media outlets. In 2004, Symons was recognized as one of the nation’s “Top Nonprofit Lobbyists” by The Hill newspaper. Before joining NWF in 2001, Symons served as climate policy advisor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. During his six years at EPA, he helped formulate national and international policy options, conducted outreach and education on global warming to Congress and the public, and helped develop public-private partnerships with industry to reduce emissions of heat-trapping pollution. Symons holds a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from Brown University.

Tim Warman, Associate Director, Global Warming Campaign, Washington, DC
Warman has worked on natural resource conservation issues for the past 24 years, with particular expertise in land, soil and water conservation. His experience includes working directly with farmers and landowners to implement on-the-ground conservation projects and with state and federal agriculture and natural resource management agencies to successfully implement the Conservation Reserve Program and the Wetlands Reserve Program. He has also developed and achieved passage of conservation program legislation at the local, state and federal levels. Warman led the American Farmland Trust’s successful initiative to create a national farmland protection program in 1996 and to expand the program in 2002. He served as vice president for programs for six years at American Farmland Trust and as executive director of the Land Trust of Virginia in 2005. Warman joined NWF in December 2005. He holds a master’s and bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland’s College of Agriculture.

Kurt Zwally, Manager, Global Warming Solutions, Washington, DC
Zwally has specialized in clean energy technologies and climate change mitigation since 1996. He provides expertise for the National Wildlife Federation’s activities on global warming solutions – working at the federal and state levels, and with the private sector. Prior to joining NWF he worked in the private sector with a firm that specializes in helping companies understand their financial risk in a carbon-constrained world, and those interested in investing in mitigation projects. He also served in various positions at the U.S. Department of Energy, including most recently as deputy director of international programs in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Zwally has a master’s degree in public policy from George Mason University, and a bachelor’s degree in a combination of economics and political science from the University of Massachusetts.