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Lisa ShafferDirector of International Relations at SIO and Adjunct Professor at IR/PS UCSD/SIO, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0210 Phone: (858) 822-2489 Fax (858) 453-0167 Email: lshaffer@ucsd.edu A specialist in international environmental cooperation and science policy, Lisa Shaffer, Ph.D., teaches about the interface between science and policy. At Scripps Institution of Oceanography, she is responsible for strategic relationships between Scripps and counterpart institutions around the world. She is the Policy Director for the Scripps Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (CMBC) and is coordinator of a graduate seminar on Marine Science, Law, and Policy, offered jointly by Scripps, IR/PS, the UCSD Departments of Economics and Political Science, and the law school of the University of San Diego. She was a principal creator and the first executive director of the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) involving senior officials from 20 oceanographic institutions in 14 countries plus international organizations. Shaffer is part of the strategic planning efforts for Scripps and supports Scripps' collaboration with other elements at UCSD to establish and expand interdisciplinary programs in the framework of sustainability. She served as a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Global Change Research and contributed to their recent report The Science of Regional and Global Change: Putting Knowledge to Work. She is Executive Director of the University of California Revelle Program on Climate Science and Policy, in collaboration with the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and IR/PS. Prior to moving to UCSD, she spent more than 25 years in Washington,
DC, heading the international offices of NASA's earth science program
and NOAA's environmental satellite and data service, and working in the
private sector. She has worked extensively on issues of data and information
policy and remote sensing. She also taught in the University of California's
Washington program.
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