UCSD Scripps Researchers Share Nobel Peace Price With Al Gore

By Ed Joyce / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published October 12, 2007 at 1:03 PM PDT

This story was published more than 16 years ago.

Several researchers at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography are part of the panel sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. 2,000 scientists worked on climate change research for the United Na

Several researchers at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography are part of the panel sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. 2,000 scientists worked on climate change research for the United Nations. KPBS Environmental Reporter Ed Joyce has details.

The chairman of the U.N. panel says Gore really had 2,000 co-laureates -- each of the scientists in the panel's research network.

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Several of those co-laureates work at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, including Richard Sommerville, V. Ramanthan, Jeff Severinghaus and Scripps Professor Lynne Talley.

Talley : Whoa! I was very excited.

Talley worked on ocean climate change as part of the panel's report earlier this year. She's one of several Scripps researchers that have contributed over the past two decades to the U.N. global climate change study.

Talley : Hundreds of papers for all the different corners of the oceans. So there's little stories here and there that people tell -- can you make a big picture out of that?

The Nobel committee cited the work of the U.N. climate change panel for bringing consensus on the connection between human activities and global warming.

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Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.

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