EESI Associates Promoted

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Jim Kubicki, and Michael Mann, all EESI associates, will be promoted to full professors as of July 1.

Anandakrishnan, who is in the Department of Geosciences, is an expert in the complex mechanics and stability of the world's large ice sheets. Considered one of the most innovative and rugged glacial geologists, he is the co-director of the Penn State Ice and Climate Research Center. Anadakrishnan also leads Penn State's participation in the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), an NSF Science and Technology Center at the University of Kansas.

Kubicki, also in geosciences, has established himself among the world's elite theoretical geochemists. His research program has ever-growing implications for environmental science, nanomaterials and energy. Kubicki also serves as the associate director of the Penn State Center for Environmental Kinetics.

A member of the Department of Meteorology, Mann is the director of the Earth System Science Center, one of EESI’s seven centers. He is recognized internationally as an expert in climate change and reconstructing past climate patterns to predict future global changes. Mann is the co-author of Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming and the co-founder of RealClimate.org, a Web site recognized as one of the top 15 ‘green’ sites by Time Magazine. In 2002, he was selected as one of the 50 leading visionaries in science and technology by Scientific American, and in 2007, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with other lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate (IPCC) reports.