Kelly Wanser

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NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States of America
Education
  • BA in Economics
  • Philosophy, politics and economics
Alma mater
  • Boston College
  • University of Oxford
Occupation
  • Technologist
  • Climate activist
Known forKnown for her support for research into climate intervention technologies to understand their potential as “emergency medicine” for global warming, including a 2019 TED
Scientific career
FieldsClimate intervention
Websitesilverlining.ngo

Kelly Wanser is an American technologist and climate activist. She is most known for her support for research into climate intervention technologies to understand their potential as “emergency medicine” for global warming, including a 2019 TED talk.[1]

Wanser is the founder and executive director of SilverLining, a nonprofit organization that works that works to advance policy and research on near-term climate risks and responses.[2][3] In October 2020, SilverLining announced a fund to support research in approaches to increasing the reflection of sunlight from the atmosphere (“solar climate intervention”), the only fund of its kind in the world, providing $3m in grants to U.S. and international teams.[4]

Advocacy

In 2008, while while working in the technology sector, Wanser met scientists Ken Caldeira, Steve Schneider, John Latham and others who educated her on climate change and the possibility of cooling climate by reflecting sunlight through dispersing particles to increase the reflection of sunlight from the atmosphere and clouds. [5] During this period, she was part of a small community of early pioneers in the field [6] and coined the term Marine Cloud Brightening to describe the potential to increase the reflectivity of low-lying marine clouds by injecting them with aerosols.[7]

In 2009, volunteering her time while working in the technology sector, Wanser co-founded the Marine Cloud Brightening Project at the University of Washington, hosting the first meetings of collaborators in Seattle and Edinburgh and securing a small amount of research funding.[8][9]

In 2017, Wanser testified before the United States House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in a hearing called by Republican legislators known to dispute climate change science.[10] The hearing was subsequently described as an unusual “rational discussion on climate change” by the committee.[11] Wanser continued to work with research teams, congressional offices and science agencies to identify research priorities.[12]

In 2018 Wanser founded SilverLining, a science-based policy and advocacy organization, to advance research in options to address near-term climate risk, where she helped advance a study by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences [13] and funding and legislative proposals in the U.S. Congress.[14][15][16][17]

In 2018, Wanser also joined the Board of Biocarbon Engineering, now known as Dendra Systems, as its first Director. Operating in the UK and Australia, the company uses data, AI, drones and other technologies to restore and manage native ecosystems.[18]

In 2019 Wanser spoke at the 2019 TEDSummit. In her talk, entitled “Emergency Medicine for our Climate Fever”, she characterized current climate mitigation efforts as “a slow-moving solution to a fast moving problem” and encouraged research to “understand our options” for climate intervention technologies.[19]

Previously, she served as an advisor to Ocean Conservancy on applying advanced analytical methods to understanding ocean-climate risk. She also served as an advisor to the Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and is a member of the President’s Circle of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.[20]

Education and career

After a short period of time in corporate strategy consulting, Wanser spent many years as an entrepreneur and executive in the field of IT infrastructure, founding and leading a sequence of companies in email, security and networking.[21] Her first company, epidemic.com, ran a widely panned Superbowl ad in 2000.[22]

She is the author of over 20 patents.[23]

Wanser received a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Boston College, and studied Philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford. She served as a volunteer lecturer in economics and philosophy at St. John's College, Belize.

Family life

The daughter of a career salesman and a social worker, Wanser grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah and Fort Worth, Texas, in a family that fostered children and sponsored a refugee family from Cambodia. In 1986, her parents adopted a 2-year-old son from Mexico, James Francisco Wanser, who was killed in a car accident at the age of 19, leaving behind two daughters, who are central to Wanser’s family life.

Kelly Wanser in the media

  

References

  1. ↑ Wanser, Kelly. "Emergency medicine for our climate fever". TED. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  2. ↑ "Legislation Aims At Atmospheric Climate Intervention Research". Escalon Times. December 24, 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  3. ↑ Showstack, Randy (May 13, 2019). "Study Will Examine Risks and Benefits of Climate Interventions". Eos. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  4. ↑ Flavelle, Christopher (28 October 2020). "As Climate Disasters Pile Up, a Radical Proposal Gains Traction". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  5. ↑ Jacobs, Jason. "Ep 50: Kelly Wanser, Executive Director at SilverLining". My Climate Journey. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  6. ↑ Goodell, Jeff (2010). How to cool the planet : geoengineering and the audacious quest to fix earth's climate. Carlton North, Vic.: Scribe Publications. p. 186. ISBN 9781921640568.
  7. ↑ "Witness Biography" (PDF). U.S. House of Representatives. Retrieved June 10, 2020. As linked from "Geoengineering: Innovation, Research, and Technology", 115th US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology Hearing, November 8, 2017
  8. ↑ Morton, Oliver (2015). The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World. Princeton Press. ISBN 9781400874453.
  9. ↑ Kintisch, Eli (2010). Hack the Planet: Science's Best Hope - or Worst Nightmare - for Averting Climate Catastrophe. Wiley Press. ISBN 9780470524268.
  10. ↑ Leavenworth, Stuart. "We can brighten clouds to reflect heat and reduce global warming. But should we?". mcclatchydc.com. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  11. ↑ Johnson, Scott K. (November 9, 2017). "US House Science Committee just had a rational hearing about climate". Ars Technica. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  12. ↑ Temple, James (December 20, 2019). "The US government has approved funds for geoengineering research". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  13. ↑ Showstack, Randy (13 May 2019). "Study Will Examine Risks and Benefits of Climate Interventions". Eos. American Geophysical Union. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  14. ↑ Temple, James (December 20, 2019). "The US government has approved funds for geoengineering research". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  15. ↑ "Rep. McNerney Introduces Legislation to Authorize Atmospheric Climate Intervention Research". Congressman Jerry McNerney. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  16. ↑ Simon, Matt (December 11, 2017). "The US Flirts With Geoengineering to Stymie Climate Change". Wired. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  17. ↑ Pontecorvo, Emily (8 January 2020). "The climate policy milestone that was buried in the 2020 budget". Grist. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  18. ↑ Peters, Adele (16 September 2020). "This startup just raised $10 million to restore ecosystems by drone". Fast Company. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  19. ↑ Wanser, Kelly. "Emergency medicine for our climate fever". TED. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  20. ↑ "Kelly Wanser – The Presidents' Circle of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine".
  21. ↑ Jennings, David. "Kelly Wanser CEO of Cold Spark email solutions poses showing the..." Getty Images. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  22. ↑ "Super Bowl Ads Spur Traffic Gains". ClickZ. 1 February 2000. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  23. ↑ "Kelly A. Wanser Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com.

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