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\n OXFORD, Miss. – After reviewing more than 1,500 <\/p>\n \n Stephen Threlkeld, UM biology professor, has served \n “Coastal areas have already started to change, and \n “In our scholarly community, research excellence is \n In the mid 1990s, Threlkeld worked as a technical \n “Each of these reports was basically done by \n The IPCC shared a Nobel Peace Prize with former \n “The chairman of the IPCC accepted the Peace Prize \n Threlkeld said the Peace Prize is a wake-up call to \n “Societies that mismanage their natural resources \n The Estuarine Research Federation is an \n “None of these accomplishments would have been \n Intrigued by pond life and high school biology \n Before joining the UM faculty in 1991, Threlkeld
\nstudies on global coastal ecologies, a respected
\nUniversity of Mississippi aquatic biologist has
\nconcluded that climate change is, indeed, real.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n
\nfor the past nine years as managing editor of
\nEstuaries and Coasts, the journal of the Estuarine
\nResearch Federation. He has handled the review of
\nresearch manuscripts examining the ecology of
\nestuaries and coasts around the world.
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\nthey’ll definitely be different from today within
\n100 years,” said Threlkeld, who recently received
\nthe Estuarine Research Federation’s Distinguished
\nService Award.
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\nusually exhibited by publishing papers in refereed
\nscientific journals,” said Paul Lago, chair of UM’s
\nbiology department. “To have one of our faculty
\nmembers help edit one of those journals is a
\nfeather in our cap.”
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\neditor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
\nChange, which released four assessment reports on
\nclimate change dating back to 1990. IPCC
\nassessments, based on peer-reviewed scientific and
\ntechnical literature, are compiled by recognized
\nexperts from around the world.
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\ndifferent scientists,” he said. “In fact, only
\nabout 10 (percent) to 20 percent of the scientists
\nhave worked on multiple IPCC reports. To me, this
\nindependence validates the findings published in
\nthe previous reports. The same data keeps coming
\nup, and it is obvious that climate change is real.”
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\nVice President Al Gore last year for work on global
\nclimate change.
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\non behalf of all of the scientists and authors who
\nhave contributed to its work, so that’s an honor I
\nfeel privileged to share,” Threlkeld said.
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\nthe globe and is hopeful it will raise public
\nawareness of climate change and restore some of the
\npublic’s respect for environmental science.
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\neventually come to regret it,” he said. “It’s not
\ntoo late, but it’s going to be painful.”
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\ninternational organization of estuarine and coastal
\nscientists. As managing editor of Estuaries and
\nCoasts, Threlkeld got UM’s Department of
\nInformation Technology to help construct a Web site
\nfor the journal and recruited Ole Miss art students
\nand faculty to help redesign its cover. He also
\nhelped streamline the journal’s manuscript
\npublishing procedures and produced a set of CD-ROMs
\ncontaining 40 years of the journal’s back issues.
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\npossible without the help of a great many
\ncolleagues at the university and around the world,”
\nThrelkeld said.
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\nclasses, Threlkeld received his bachelor’s degree
\nin biological oceanography from the University of
\nWashington. He also earned a doctoral degree in
\nzoology from Michigan State University.
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\ntaught at the University of California-Davis and
\nUniversity of Oklahoma. He also served as director
\nof the National Science Foundation’s population
\nbiology and physiological ecology program and was
\ndirector of Fordham University’s field station.
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