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 Dr Emma Archer van Garderen is a geographer by training, employed as Principal Scientist, Climate
Change in the Natural Resources and the Environment division (NRE) of the Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) since January, 2009.
Prior to her appointment at the CSIR, Dr Archer van Garderen lectured in the School of Geography,
Archaeology and Environmental Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, and
was a senior researcher at the Climate Systems Analysis Group at the University of
Cape Town. She continues to supervise post-graduate students at both institutions.
Dr Archer van Garderen completed her PhD at Clark University in the United States, focusing on
climate change and grazing systems in the Karoo; followed by a National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Global and Climate Change Postdoctoral
Fellowship at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at
Columbia University, co-hosted by the Pennsylvania State University.
Dr Archer van Garderen has served on the technical or steering committees of a number of
international bodies, including:
- serving as an invited member of the Technical Coordinating Panel of an
ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics)
led Consortium on 'Investing in rain-fed farming systems of sub-Saharan
Africa: Evaluating the agricultural implications of current climatic variability
and planning for future climate change',
- the Global Land Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere
Programme, and
- acting in a review capacity for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change).
Within South Africa, she has served on the committee of the South African Society for
Atmospheric Science (SASAS), and within SADC, has a continued advisory capacity on
early warning, food security, land degradation assessment and climate change.
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