Listen to Rawlins' Academic Minute Here
"Dr. Michael Rawlins is an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst and the manager of its Climate System Research Center. He was a visiting Research Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College prior to his appointment at Amherst and a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow from 2007-2009. In 2010 Dr. Rawlins led a study in collaboration with researchers at 17 institutions around the world which documented an intensification of the Arctic’s freshwater cycle. His current research focuses on regional climate variability and change with an emphasis on Arctic water and carbon cycles. He is the principle investigator of a NASA supported project in which he and his colleagues are synthesizing information from multiple data source which quantify carbon cycle processes across northern Eurasia. Dr. Rawlins is a 2015 University of Massachusetts Public Engagement Faculty Fellow. He holds BS and MS degrees from the University of Delaware and received his PhD from the University of New Hampshire in Earth and Environmental Sciences in 2006." (The Academic Minute, 5/26/15)