Technical Advisory Board

TerraPass has assembled a world class Technical Advisory Board to advise us on the latest in climate science. Both Bill Moomaw and Bill Schlesinger bring a wealth of science expertise to our company. Additionally, the board periodically reviews our carbon reduction strategy and choice of projects.

Bill Moomaw

William Moomaw is Professor of International Environmental Policy at Tufts University, and Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy. His teaching and research focus on issues such as quantitative indicators of environment and development; sustainable development; trade and environment; technology and policy implications for climate change; water and climate change; biodiversity; and negotiation strategies for environmental agreements.

In addition to his roles at Tufts, Bill is Senior Co-Director, Global Development and Environment Institute; Co-Director, Public Disputes Program, Program on Negotiations; Convening Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2001; Board of Directors, Consensus Building Institute; Science Advisory Committee, Earthwatch; and Lead author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2003.

Bill earned his BA from Williams College and PhD in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Bill Schlesinger

William H. Schlesinger is James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry, and Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University.

After completing his BA at Dartmouth and PhD at Cornell, he joined the Duke faculty in 1980. He is the author or coauthor of over 160 scientific papers and the widely-adopted textbook Biogeochemistry: An analysis of global change (Academic Press, 2nd ed. 1997). He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2003. He was President of the Ecological Society of America for 2003-2004.

Currently, Schlesinger focuses his research on global change ecology. He is the co-principal investigator for the Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment (FACE) Experiment in the Duke Forest, a project that seeks to explain how an entire forest ecosystem (vegetation and soils) will respond to elevated carbon dioxide. He has also extensively studied desert ecosystems and their response to global climate change. From 1991 to 2000, he served as Principal Investigator for the NSF-sponsored program of Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) at the Jornada Basin in southern New Mexico.

His past work has taken him to diverse habitats, ranging from Okefenokee Swamp in southern Georgia to the Mojave Desert of California. His research has been featured on NOVA, CNN, NPR, and on the pages of Discover, National Geographic, The New York Times, and Scientific American.

Schlesinger has testified before U.S. House and Senate Committees on a variety of environmental issues, including preservation of desert habitats and global climate change.