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Todd Sanford
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Global Warming-Science and ImpactsProfile
Dr. Todd Sanford is a climate scientist with the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). His main areas of focus are the public health impacts of climate change and the “social cost” of carbon—the various financial costs associated with climate change.
Before joining UCS, Dr. Sanford was a research scientist at the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder. There he designed and built a field instrument to measure optical and chemical properties of atmospheric aerosols. He participated in NASA aircraft field missions to study aerosol properties in the tropical upper atmosphere. In addition, he conducted climate modeling studies looking at global climate impacts of various climate forcing scenarios, effects of stratospheric water vapor changes on global warming, and the efficacy of various greenhouse gas trading schemes.
For the past 10 years, Dr. Sanford has been involved in public lands policy, specifically focusing on wilderness, and worked as an ecological restoration volunteer with a Colorado-based nonprofit.
Dr. Sanford received a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Colorado and a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Purdue University.
