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Craig Williamson, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Ecosystem Ecology at Miami University, has been invited to be a member of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Environmental Effects Assessment Panel. The purpose of this panel is to keep the Parties to the Montreal Protocol and the global community informed about the current status of ozone depletion and climate change.
The Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP) publishes an annual progress report on the various effects of ozone layer depletion and climate change, and once every four years publishes a full report for the UNEP/Ozone Secretariat and political dissemination to the Parties to the Montreal Protocol and other policy makers. It is also published in the international scientific journal, Photochemical & Biological Sciences.
Members of the EEAP are scientists working in photobiology and photochemistry worldwide. Panel members write the different report chapters and the Panel takes responsibility for the entire assessment. A draft assessment is sent out to external scientific reviewers internationally. Between major assessments, the Panel meets at least once a year and informs the Parties to the Montreal Protocol about new developments.
Williamson was a reviewer for the 2006 full report of the EEAP. He will meet with the panel in Kobe, Japan, in February to discuss the final draft of the 2010 full report. He is an author of the chapter on aquatic ecosystems.
For more information about the UNEP, go to http://ozone.unep.org.
Williamson’s research focuses on understanding the role of UV radiation in aquatic systems at levels ranging from the cell and molecular to the organism, population, community, and ecosystem. In a larger context, his research lies in understanding how regional and global environmental changes are altering aquatic communities and ecosystems.
His work is centered on alpine and subalpine lakes in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana and Wyoming; the Canadian Rocky Mountains; Lake Tahoe in California; high elevation lakes in Chile and Bolivia; and lower elevation lakes in Pennsylvania and reservoirs in Ohio.
For more information about Williamson’s global change limnology laboratory, go to www.users.muohio.edu/willia85/index.html.
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