David Titley
{{Short description|American oceanographer}}
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| fields = Meteorology, oceanography
| workplaces = U.S. Navy, NOAA Corps, Penn State
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| thesis_title = Intensification and structure change of super Typhoon Flo as related to the large-scale environment
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David William Titley{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/100th-congress/1234|title=PN1234 — Navy|date=September 30, 1988|website=U.S. Congress|accessdate=2017-09-16}} (born 1958){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DD8BVZeVFP4C&pg=PA238 |title=Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy on Active Duty |date=October 1, 1990 |page=238 |publisher=Bureau of Naval Personnel |access-date=2021-06-15}} is a professor of meteorology at Pennsylvania State University and the founding director of their Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk. He was also NOAA's chief operating officer from 2012 to 2013. Before assuming these positions, he was a rear admiral in, and the chief oceanographer of, the U.S. Navy, in which he served for 32 years.{{cite web |url=https://www.sia.psu.edu/faculty/titley |title=David Titley |author= |date= |website=PSU.edu |publisher=Pennsylvania State University |access-date=August 9, 2016 |quote=}} He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
Life
Titley graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. degree in meteorology. He later attended the Naval Postgraduate School, earning an M.S. degree in meteorology and physical oceanography in 1989{{cite book |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/36733342.pdf |title=Graduation Exercises |date=December 21, 1989 |publisher=Naval Postgraduate School |location=Monterey, California |access-date=2021-06-15}} and a Ph.D. degree in meteorology in 1998.{{Cite web|url=http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio_ret.asp?bioID=438|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724052843/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio_ret.asp?bioID=438|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 24, 2013|title=Navy.mil Leadership Biographies|last=Petty|first=Dan|website=Navy.mil|language=en|access-date=2018-04-12}}
Titley initiated the Navy's Task Force on Climate Change, and serves on the CNA Corporation's Military Advisory Board.{{cite web | url=http://missoulian.com/news/opinion/columnists/for-a-more-secure-america-we-must-tackle-climate-change/article_aed11e1a-0921-11e4-a116-001a4bcf887a.html | title=For a more secure America, we must tackle climate change | work=Missoulian | date=13 July 2014 | accessdate=14 July 2014 | author=Titley, David}} He was formerly agnostic about climate change, but later changed his mind after looking at the evidence of what factors influence climate–which are, according to Titley, "what are the larger things doing – what is the ocean doing? What is the sun doing? And what's our atmosphere doing?"{{cite web | url=https://www.npr.org/2011/03/04/134265283/navigating-in-a-changing-climate | title=Navigating In A Changing Climate | work=NPR | date=4 March 2011 | accessdate=14 July 2014 | author=Flatow, Ira}} Since then, he has described climate change as "one of the driving forces in the 21st century" and said that it contributed to the 2011 Arab Spring.{{cite web | url=http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/04/david_titley_climate_change_war_an_interview_with_the_retired_rear_admiral.single.html | title="Climate Change War" Is Not a Metaphor | work=Slate | date=18 April 2014 | accessdate=14 July 2014 | author=Holthaus, Eric}}
The Department of Defense requested that Titley present on their behalf at both Congressional Hearings and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meetings from 2009 to 2011.{{Cite news|url=https://climateandsecurity.org/advisory-board/rear-admiral-david-w-titley-usn-ret/|title=Rear Admiral David W. Titley, USN (Ret)|date=2014-01-26|work=The Center for Climate & Security|access-date=2021-06-15|language=en-US}}
Titley is a member of the Hoover Institution's Arctic Security Initiative, and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State, the Center for Climate and Security, Columbia University's Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, and the Association of Climate Change Officers. He is a member of the National Academies of Science committee on Geoengineering and the Center for Naval Analysis' Military Advisory Board and co-chairs the National Research Council's "A Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences" committee. Titley sits on the [http://thebulletin.org/science-and-security-board Science and Security Board] at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which among other things, enables him to participate in the discussions that determine the position of the Bulletin's famed Doomsday Clock.{{cite journal |first1=Lynn |last1=Eden |first2=Robert |last2=Rosner |first3=Rod |last3=Ewing |first4=Sivan |last4=Kartha |first5=Edward |last5=Kolb |first6=Lawrence M. |last6=Krauss |first7=Leon |last7=Lederman |first8=Raymond T. |last8=Pierrehumbert |first9=M. V. |last9=Ramana |first10=Jennifer |last10=Sims |first11=Richard C. J. |last11=Somerville |first12=Sharon |last12=Squassoni |first13=Elizabeth J. |last13=Wilson |first14=David |last14=Titley |first15=Ramamurti |last15=Rajaraman |title=Three minutes and counting |url=http://thebulletin.org/three-minutes-and-counting7938 |journal=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists |date=19 January 2015 |access-date=10 August 2015 |archive-date=22 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122191217/http://thebulletin.org/three-minutes-and-counting7938 |url-status=dead }} Titley is also on the Advisory Board of the Citizens' Climate Lobby.{{Cite web|title = About CCL - Citizens' Climate Lobby|url = http://citizensclimatelobby.org/about-ccl/#advisoryboard|website = Citizens' Climate Lobby|accessdate = 2015-12-05|language = en-US}}
Awards
In 2023 he received the Friends of the Planet award from the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) according to the executive director Ann Reid, “David Titley's focus on the importance of climate change in thinking about military preparedness and international relations is extraordinarily valuable”.{{cite web |title=Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awards for 2023 |url=https://ncse.ngo/friend-darwin-and-friend-planet-awards-2023 |website=NCSE.ngo |publisher=National Center for Science Education |access-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814183605/https://ncse.ngo/friend-darwin-and-friend-planet-awards-2023 |archive-date=14 August 2023}}
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External links
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- {{YouTube|id=_bm98rrVZzE|title=How the military fights climate change}} published on Dec 6, 2017 TED (conference)
- [https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/david-titley-climate-change-is-a-national-security-risk/ David Titley: Climate Change is a National Security Risk] March 7, 2019 Amanpour & Company
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Category:Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences alumni
Category:American meteorologists
Category:Military personnel from Schenectady, New York
Category:Naval Postgraduate School alumni
Category:American oceanographers
Category:United States Navy admirals
Category:Fellows of the American Meteorological Society
Category:American chief operating officers