Faculty

Paul Edwards is a professor in the UM School of Information and Dept. of History. His research concerns the history and politics of knowledge and information infrastructures, especially the ones surrounding climate science and climate change. He wrote A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010) and co-edited Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2001). Most of his writing is available at his website, pne.people.si.umich.edu.

Professor Ricky Rood’s current research is focused on bridging the study of weather and climate. He is funded by NASA to study dynamical features as objects and to develop new methods for analyzing climate models. He is funded by the Department of Energy to study sub-scale mixing processes in climate models. At the University of Michigan, he teaches a class on climate change and the interface of climate change with all aspects of society. This has evolved into a class on problem solving in climate change. This is a graduate class, taught in concert with the School of Natural Resources & Environment. The class includes business students, policy students, as well as students from several science departments. In addition, Ricky has funding to study urban heat waves, human heat health warning systems, and how to govern open source / open innovation communities.