Cameron Wake
KLT Board Member

“To be a glacial detective a person needs to be a little Stephen Hawking and a little Indiana Jones”, which describes Cameron Wake, a research associate professor from the University of New Hampshire. Cameron has served as a KLT Board member since 2003.
 
Cameron has spent two decades recovering and analyzing ice cores to reconstruct climate change over thousands of years. His work has taken him to the Himalaya, Tibetan Plateau, Greenland, and Antarctica. His knowledge of climate change fuels his passion for reducing the human impact on our climate system now and into  the future. He also directs Carbon Solutions New England, a public-private partnership which promotes collective action to achieve a clean, secure energy future while maintaining our unique natural and cultural resources.

Tom Kelly, UNH’s chief sustainability officer, has worked with Cameron for a dozen years and says “Cameron’s commitment to sharing his research with the larger community, especially decision-makers at the state, regional, and federal levels, is laudable. He is a real leader in the new movement of engaged scholarship for sustainability”. 

Cameron gave the keynote talk at KLT’s annual meeting this past September, discussing the importance of land conservation in light of global warming and sea level rise.  He urged KLT to continue conserving important coastal and upland properties that will provide critical buffers as sea level advances in the coming decades. 

We are honored to have Cam on KLT’s Board of Directors and thank  him for his steadfast commitment to serving as the interface between scientists and the public on the critically important issues around climate change.  

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UNH Magazine
UNH Faculty Excellence 2010
Climate Change Article