National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Dr. Fred Lipschultz is the Regional Coordinator for the National Climate Assessment and Senior Scientist at USGCRP. His responsibilities include coordinating all aspects of the regional chapters of the recently issued Third National Climate Assessment and helping to shape regional aspects of the sustained assessment goal of USGCRP’s decadal strategic plan. 

Fred is now on assignment from Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to USGCRP.  Previously he was on a mobility assignment to NASA from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, where he has been a faculty member since 1989.  At NASA, Fred worked as a Program Scientist for the Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Program in the Earth Sciences Division and then was assigned to USGCRP. Before that, he served at NSF as Program Officer in the Chemical Oceanography Program in the Geosciences Directorate.  

Fred's research career focused on the biogeochemistry of the marine nitrogen cycle in various ecosystems including Bermuda's coral reefs, the Sargasso Sea, and the Eastern Tropical Pacific. He earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Harvard University after a Master's degree in Botany and B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland.