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GSA-USGS Congressional

Science Fellow Named

GSA and the U.S. Geological Survey are consistently engaged on issues of science policy and community.
pleased to announce that Charles Gertler For instance, as co-chair of the 11 annual Graduate Climate
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will serve as the 2020–2021 GSA-USGS Conference, Gertler helped expand emphasis on the social sci-
Congressional Science Fellow. He will ences, science outreach, and the science-policy interface.
spend a year working in the office of Before his Ph.D., Gertler worked for an intergovernmental
Senator Edward Markey (D-MA). environmental research organization in Kathmandu, Nepal,
Charles Gertler is a climate scientist with where he led a field campaign to assess the effects of air pollu-
a broad background in the earth sciences tion on high-altitude Himalayan glaciers. Gertler holds an
and public policy. He has worked on the M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge in glaciology and an
physics of the atmosphere, glaciers, and sea A.B. from Harvard College in Environmental Science and Public
Charles Gertler
level, as well as geoengineering, air quality, Policy, where his thesis addressed the potential for utility-scale
and energy policy. Gertler recently earned his Ph.D. at MIT, where solar power in China. He is thrilled to bring these experiences to
his doctoral work focused on the extratropical storm tracks and Capitol Hill and build on them as the GSA-USGS Congressional
their response to climate changes. Outside of research, he has been Science Fellow.

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