ANDERS CARLSON

Anders uses his broad climate expertise to advance Our Children’s Trust legal strategy and communications campaigns designed to reduce atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Anders has studied climate change and its impacts for 25+ years.   

As an academic researcher and professor, Anders focused on icesheet and glacier changes, their attendant impacts on sea level and climate, abrupt climate change, and the role of greenhouse gases and Earth’s orbit in driving regional to global climate change. In addition to the lower 48 and the North Atlantic, his field areas have included Alaska, Arctic Canada, Greenland, Svalbard, mainland Scandinavia, Patagonia, and Antarctica. He was an academic for 11+ years serving as an Associate Professor at Oregon State University and University of Wisconsin-Madison.  

He serves as President of Oregon Glaciers Institute, which documents the health of Oregon’s glaciers and their responses to climate change to determine their future viability. Anders contributes to his field through frequent interviews, articles, and op-eds, coupled with 90+ scientific publications.  

Anders received his PhD in glacial geology and oceanography from Oregon State University, MS from University of Wisconsin-Madison in glacial geology, and BA from Augustana College. He was a postdoctoral scholar focused on paleoclimate at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.