Michael Wolosin

Science Policy Fellow

Michael Wolosin serves as a Science Policy Fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. He assists the Director of Policy Analysis with research, drafting and editing briefs, and composing presentations related to domestic climate change policy. He also tracks both domestic and international policies involving aforestation, reforestation, and avoided deforestation as carbon mitigation tools.

Dr. Wolosin comes to the Pew Center having recently completed a doctoral degree in Ecology from Duke University (2007). His dissertation research overcame difficulties in measuring and modeling large tree crowns and light availability in closed forests to investigate competition for light. His expertise includes remote sensing of forests; forest tree structure and allometry; Bayesian hierarchical statistical models; analysis of statistical uncertainty; process models of crown competition; and forest simulation models. As a Research Fellow at EPA (summer, 2005), he modeled the disparate impacts of toxic releases into US streams through the pathway of self-caught fish consumption.

Prior to graduate school, Dr. Wolosin was an Analyst with the Human Capital Strategy Team at William M. Mercer, Inc., and an Assistant Analyst with the Congressional Budget Office’s Macroeconomic Analysis Division. He holds a BA (1995) from Brown University with concentrations in mathematics and economics.