John Harte
Professor of Environmental Science, University of California, Berkeley

John Harte is an internationally-renowned scientist whose research interests include climate-ecosystem interactions, theoretical ecology, and environmental policy. He is the recipient of a Pew Scholars Prize in Conservation and the Environment, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2001 Leo Szilard prize from the American Physical Society, the 2004 UC Berkeley Graduate Mentorship Award, a Miller Professorship, and is a co-recipient of the 2006 George Polk award in journalism. He is an elected Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society. Dr. Harte has served on six National Academy of Sciences committees and has authored over 180 scientific publications, including six books. One of those books, “Consider a Spherical Cow,” is a widely used textbook on environmental modeling.