S. Fred Singer, Ph.D.
President, SEPP
Expertise: Global climate change and the greenhouse effect, depletion of
the stratospheric ozone layer, acid rain, air pollution, importance and future
of the U.S. space program, energy resources and U.S. energy policy.
S. Fred Singer is internationally known for his work on energy and
environmental issues. A pioneer in the development of rocket and satellite
technology, he devised the basic instrument for measuring stratospheric ozone
and was principal investigator on a satellite experiment retrieved by the space
shuttle in 1990. He was the first scientist to predict that population growth
would increase atmospheric methane--an important greenhouse gas.
Now President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project, a
non-profit policy research group he founded in 1990, Singer is also distinguished
professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia.
His previous government and academic positions include Chief Scientist, U.S.
Department of Transportation (1987- 89); Deputy Assistant Administrator for
Policy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970-71); Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Water Quality and Research, U.S. Department of the Interior
(1967- 70); founding Dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary
Sciences, University of Miami (1964-67); first Director of the National Weather
Satellite Service (1962-64); and Director of the Center for Atmospheric and
Space Physics, University of Maryland (1953-62).
Singer has received numerous awards for his research, including a Special
Commendation from the White House for achievements in artificial earth
satellites, a U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award for the development
and management of the U.S.
weather satellite program, and the first Science Medal from the British
Interplanetary Society. He has served on state and federal advisory panels,
including five years as vice chairman of the National Advisory Committee on
Oceans and Atmospheres. He frequently testifies before Congress.
Singer did his undergraduate work in electrical engineering at Ohio State University and holds a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. He is the author or editor
of more than a dozen books and monographs, including Is
There an Optimum Level of Population? (McGraw-Hill, 1971), Free Market
Energy (Universe Books, 1984), and Global Climate Change (Paragon
House, 1989). Singer has also published more than 400 technical papers in
scientific, economic, and public policy journals, as well as numerous editorial
essays and articles in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New
Republic, Newsweek, Journal of Commerce, Washington Times, Washington Post,
and other publications. His latest book, Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's
Unfinished Debate,
was published in late 1997 through the Independent Institute.
Dr. S. Fred Singer (singer@sepp.org)
Science & Environmental Policy Project
1600 South Eads Street, Suite #712-S
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