Douglas Cripe

Douglas Cripe is an expert on climate, water, oceans, and science and technology, and he served as Work Programme Coordinator at the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Secretariat, in Geneva. He received his PhD in Physical Geography (climatology) from Kent State University and MSc in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State University. Before joining the GEO, Dr. Cripe was a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE) at the University of Geneva and has served as assistant editor for the Environmental Science & Policy Journal (Elsevier) he also served as the coordinator for the climate module of the Environmental Diplomacy course offered jointly with UNEP and the Graduate Institute of Geneva, and worked several years as a Research Associate in climate modelling at Colorado State University. Currently, he is working as Scientific Officer at Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Secretariat.