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{{short description|American meteorologist (born 1942)}}
'''Michael Calvin MacCracken''' (born 1942), has been chief scientist for climate change programs with the Climate Institute in Washington, D.C., since 2002; he was also elected to its board of directors in 2006.
==Early life==
Born in [[Schenectady]], New York, he graduated from [[Tenafly High School]] in 1960 before receiving his B.S. in engineering from [[Princeton University]] in 1964 and his Ph.D. in applied science from the [[University of California Davis]] in 1968. His dissertation involved development and application of an early [[global climate model]] to analyze the plausibility of then current hypotheses for the causes of [[ice age]] cycling.
==Academic research==
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Project director (1976–1979) of the [[United States Department of Energy]]’s Multistate Atmospheric Power Production Pollution Study, which focused on [[acid precipitation]] in the northeastern US, and was a program adviser (1979–93) for various components of DOE’s Carbon Dioxide Research Program, including serving as lead editor of two volumes of DOE’s 1985 assessments on climate change. From 1984 to 1990, he served as U.S. co-chair of Project 02.08–11 under Working Group VIII of the US/USSR Joint Committee on Cooperation in the Field of Environmental Protection. At LLNL, he served as deputy division leader for atmospheric and geophysical sciences from 1974 to 1987 and division leader from 1974 to 1987.
From 1993 to 2002, MacCracken was on assignment from LLNL to the interagency Office of the [[U.S. Global Change Research Program]] (USGCRP) in Washington D.C., as senior global change scientist. With the Office, he served as its first executive director from 1993 to 1997 and as executive director of the National Assessment Coordination Office from 1997 to 2001, coordinating preparation of the first comprehensive national assessment of [[effects of climate change|climate change impacts]] on the US [16,17]. During this assignment, MacCracken also served as a co-author/contributing author for various chapters in the assessment reports of the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] (IPCC), as well as coordinating preparation of the official U.S. Government reviews of the Second and [[Third IPCC Assessment Report]]s. He also served as president of the International Commission on Climate from 1995 to 2003 and co-editor of volume 1 of the Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change.
From 2003 to 2007, MacCracken served as president of the [[International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences]] (IAMAS) and on the executive committees of [[International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics]] (IUGG), members of which are the [[National Academy of Sciences (disambiguation)|national academies of science]] or their equivalent in about 65 nations. He also was a member of the executive committee of the Scientific Committee for Oceanic Research (SCOR) from 2003 to 2011 and a member of the synthesis team for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment from 2002 to 2004 [20]. From 2004 to 202007 he served on a scientific expert group convened by [[Sigma Xi]] and the UN Foundation at the request of the UN [[Commission on Sustainable Development]] to suggest the best measures for mitigating and adapting to global climate change.
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*7. Duewer, W., M. C. MacCracken, and J. Walton, 1978: The Livermore regional air quality model: II. Verification and sample application in the San Francisco Bay Area. J. Appl. Meteorol., 17, 273–311.
*8. MacCracken, M. C., 1979: The Multistate Atmospheric Power Production Pollution Study—MAP3S: Progress Report for FY-1977 and FY-1978, US Department of Energy Report DOE/EV-0040, July. Also MacCracken, M. C., 1978: MAP3S: An investigation of atmospheric, energy related pollutants in the northeastern United States. Atmos. Environ., 12, 649–659.
*9. MacCracken, M. C. (chairman), E. Aronson, D. Barns, S. Barr, C. Bloyd, D. Bruns, R. Cushman, R. Darwin, D. DeAngelis, M. Edenburn, J. Edmonds, W. Emanuel, D. Engi, M. Farrell, J. Hales, E. Hillsman, C. Hunsaker, A. King, A. Liebetrau, B. Manowitz, G. Marland, S. McDonald, [[Joyce E. Penner|J. Penner]], S. Rayner, N. Rosenberg, M. Scott, M. Steinberg, W. Westman, D. Wuebbles, and G. Yohe, 1990: Energy and Climate Change. Report of the DOE Multi-Laboratory Climate Change Committee. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL, 161 pp.
*10. MacCracken, M. C., and F. M. Luther (Eds.), 1985: Projecting the Climatic Effects of Increasing Carbon Dioxide, DOE/ER-0237, US Department of Energy, Washington, DC, 381 pp.
*11. MacCracken, M. C., and F. M. Luther (Eds.), 1985: Detecting the Climatic Effects of Increasing Carbon Dioxide. DOE/ER-0235, US Department of Energy, Washington, DC, 198 pp.
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*18. MacCracken, M. C., and J. S. Perry (editors), 2002: Encyclopedia of Global and Environmental Change, Volume 1: The Earth System: Physical and Chemical Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, one of five volumes under chief editor T. Munn, John Wiley and Sons, London, 773 pp.
*19. Michael MacCracken, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120425080236/http://www.iamas.org/officers/bureau/IA-MMCra.html Past-President IAMAS (2007–2011)], International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences. Accessed August 9, 2011
*20. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), 2004: Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, Cambridge University Press, 140 pp. [link to https://web.archive.org/web/20170924094921/http://www.acia.uaf.edu/]
*21. [http://www.oei.es/decada/SEG_Report.pdf Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change (SEG)], 2007: Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable, Rosina M. Bierbaum, John P. Holdren, Michael C. MacCracken, Richard H. Moss, and Peter H. Raven (eds.), Report prepared for the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development by Sigma Xi, Research Triangle Park, NC, and the United Nations Foundation, Washington, DC, 144 pp.
*22. MacCracken, M. C., 2009: [http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/wbkwbrwps/4938.htm Beyond Mitigation: Potential Options for Counter-Balancing the Climatic and Environmental Consequences of the Rising Concentrations of Greenhouse Gases], Background Paper to the 2010 World Development Report, Policy Research Working Paper (RWP) 4938, The World Bank, Washington, DC, May 2009, 43 pp.
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