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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 1984-1990, 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 1974-1987 and division leader from 1974-1987.
From 1993-2002, Dr. 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 1993-1997 and as executive director of the National Assessment Coordination Office from 1997-2001, coordinating preparation of the first comprehensive national assessment of climate change impacts on the US [16,17]. During this assignment, Dr. 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 1995-2003 and co-editor of volume 1 of the Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change.
From 2003-07, Dr. 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 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 2003-11 and a member of the synthesis team for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment from 2002-04 [20]. From 2004-2007 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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