University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) Dean Jonathan Overpeck has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He is one of 120 members and 24 international members elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. 

An interdisciplinary climate scientist, Overpeck is an expert on climate change, climate-vegetation interactions, earth history, environmental science and sustainability. He has authored or co-authored over 230 publications that have been cited over 60,000 times. Overpeck advocates both scholarly and real-world impact, particularly the need for public higher education to emphasize both. He has also worked hard to strengthen the focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in the study and practice of environmental work and sustainability. His time has been invested heavily in university, city and state efforts to help create a 21st-century economy that is robust, free of climate change, sustainable and just, and continues to push hard for innovative ways that universities and their partners can accelerate an end to the climate and other environmental crises that plague our planet.

Overpeck is also the William B. Stapp Collegiate Professor of Environmental Education at SEAS, as well as a Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and a Professor of Climate and Space Science Engineering at U-M.

Read the release from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.