22 Facts About Peter Gleick

Peter H Gleick is an American scientist working on issues related to the environment.

In 2011, Gleick was the launch chairman of the "new task force on scientific ethics and integrity" of the American Geophysical Union.

Peter Gleick received the International Water Resources Association Ven Te Chow Memorial Award in 2011, and that same year he and the Pacific Institute were awarded the first US Water Prize.

Peter Gleick's dissertation was the first to model the regional impact of climate change on water resources.

Peter Gleick produced some of the earliest work on the links between environmental issues, especially water and climate change, and international security, identifying a long history of conflicts over water resources and the use of water as both a weapon and target of war.

Peter Gleick pioneered the concepts of the soft water path, and peak water.

Peter Gleick worked as the Deputy Assistant for Energy and the Environment to the Governor of California from 1980 to 1982.

In 2011, Peter Gleick received the International Water Resources Association Ven Te Chow Memorial Award.

In 2013, Peter Gleick was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards.

Peter Gleick served on the scientific advisory boards of Thirst, Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk and other water-related films.

In 1987, with two colleagues, Peter Gleick started the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, an independent non-profit policy research center currently located in Oakland, California.

Peter Gleick was the first to link the output of large-scale general circulation models of the climate with a detailed regional hydrologic model to evaluate how changes in temperature and precipitation would alter streamflow, snowpack, and soil moisture, with a focus on the Sacramento River basin in California.

Peter Gleick served as co-lead author of the Water Sector Report of the first National Climate Assessment, published in 2000.

Peter Gleick has continued to focus on these issues and created and maintains the Water Conflict Chronology, a comprehensive online database of violence associated with water resources, published by the Pacific Institute.

Peter Gleick did some of the earliest work defining a human right to water.

Peter Gleick is the editor of the biennial series on the state of the world's water, called The World's Water, published by Island Press, Washington, DC, regularly provides testimony to the United States Congress and state legislatures, and has published many scientific articles.

Peter Gleick serves as a major source of information on water and climate issues for the media, and has been featured on CNBC, CNN, Fox Business, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NPR, in articles in The New Yorker, and many other outlets.

Peter Gleick was a 2009 Keynote Lecturer at the Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College.

In 2014, Peter Gleick published a peer-reviewed article in the American Meteorological Society journal "Weather, Climate, and Society" that addressed the role of drought, climate change, and water management decisions in influencing the civil war in Syria.

In September 2014, Peter Gleick gave a keynote address at the "Global Climate Negotiations: Lessons from California" Symposium, co-hosted by the USC Schwarzenegger Institute with the California Air Resources Board and the R20 Regions of Climate Action in Sacramento, which highlighted the different policies applied by the state of California facing the impact of climate change.

On February 20,2012, Peter Gleick announced he was responsible for the unauthorized distribution of documents from The Heartland Institute in mid-February.

Peter Gleick reported he had received "an anonymous document in the mail describing what appeared to be details of the Heartland Institute's climate program strategy", and in trying to verify the authenticity of the document, had "solicited and received additional materials directly from the Heartland Institute under someone else's name".