Laurence C. Smith

• Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Geography
  University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• Professor of Geography and Earth & Space Sciences
  University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

1989, BSc in Geological Sciences, Univ. of Illinois; 1991, MSc in Geological Sciences, Indiana Univ.; 1996, PhD in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell Univ. 2006, briefed US Congress on likely impacts of northern climate change; 2007, work appeared in Fourth Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; received over US$ 6 million in external grant funding from National Science Foundation and National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for research on northern climate change. Prof. and Chair, Department of Geography and Prof. of Earth and Space Science, UCLA. Author of more than 70 research papers incl. in journals Science, Nature and PNAS. Author, The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future (2011), which describes cross-cutting themes of population demographics, globalization, natural resource demand, and climate change, and winner of the 2011 Kistler Book Award. Work covered in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The L.A. Times, The Washington Post, Discover Magazine, NPR, BBC, CBC Radio and others. Guggenheim Fellow. Awards.