AAAS Roger Revelle Fellows in Global Stewardship

L. Jeremy Richardson
2007-08 Roger Revelle Fellow in Global Stewardship

Before starting his tenure as the Revelle Fellow, Jeremy Richardson was the John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow at the American Astronomical Society (AAS). In this capacity, he coordinated public policy and government relations activities for the AAS, tracked federal funding for astronomy research, and led grass-roots lobbying efforts.

Previously, Jeremy spent over six years at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (three as a graduate student from the University of Colorado and three as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow), where he characterized the atmospheric properties of a planet over 150 light years away. His research culminated in the first observed emission spectrum of an extrasolar planet and revealed tantalizing evidence for the composition of the planet’s atmosphere, a discovery featured in the New York Times in February 2007.

Trained as a physicist, Jeremy recently decided to refocus his professional efforts on technological and policy solutions to the climate crisis. He was selected to attend a training session through The Climate Project to present Al Gore’s slide show on climate change and raise public awareness of the issue, and he has given the slide show to a variety of audiences. Jeremy has elected to use the Revelle Fellowship to work directly with The Climate Project to research potential solutions to the climate crisis and to track both state and national legislative developments to inform presenters.