Jane Long (climatologist)

Jane C. S. Long is an American energy and climate scientist. She was Associate Director at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is known for being a climate strategist. As Associate Director for Energy and Environment Directorate at Livermore she led programs in Earth System Science and Engineering, Nuclear System Science and Engineering, National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center, and the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry including disciplines ranging from Earth sciences.

Career

Principal Associate Director at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Co-Chair of the Task Force on Geoengineering UC Berkeley

Co-chair of the 2011 California Council on Science and Technology for California's Energy Future Committee

Co-chair of the National Commission on Energy Policies Task Force on Geoengineering

Dean of the Mackay School of Mines at University of Nevada, Reno, Director of the Great Basin Center (1997-2003)

Elected as an American Academy for the Advancement of Science Fellow 2012

Summary

Dr. Jane Long retired from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2012), where she worked as a top director and research fellow. She focused on global strategy, energy, and the environment. She is a contributing scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund while also serving as a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley.

She has led many big projects on energy and climate policy. She co-chaired studies on how California can meet its clean energy goals and worked on national and state panels about geoengineering and climate adaptation.