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Jerry M. Melillo ’65

Jerry M. Melillo ’65, Distinguished Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), was named chair of a joint public-private sector committee that will produce the next National Climate Assessment report for the United States. Melillo, co-author of the landmark report to Congress, “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States,” issued by the USGCRP, was also a lead author on both the 1990 and 1995 Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and he served in President Clinton’s Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1996–97. He has been on the scientific staff at MBL since 1976, and is a professor of biology at Brown University. At Wesleyan, he majored in biology and then earned his MAT in 1968, followed by his doctorate from Yale. His research focuses on the impacts of human activities on the biogeochemistry of terrestrial ecosystems, and modeling analysis of the feedbacks and impacts of climate change.
Jerry M. Melillo ’65, Distinguished Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), was named chair of a joint public-private sector committee that will produce the next National Climate Assessment report for the United States. Melillo, co-author of the landmark report to Congress, “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States,” issued by the USGCRP, was also a lead author on both the 1990 and 1995 Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and he served in President Clinton’s Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1996–97. He has been on the scientific staff at MBL since 1976, and is a professor of biology at Brown University. At Wesleyan, he majored in biology and then earned his MAT in 1968, followed by his doctorate from Yale. His research focuses on the impacts of human activities on the biogeochemistry of terrestrial ecosystems, and modeling analysis of the feedbacks and impacts of climate change.