Education
Dr. William Solecki's research focuses on the urban environmental change and urban land use and suburbanization. Solecki is the Director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities and a professor in the Department of Geography at Hunter College, CUNY. He has served on several U.S. National Research Council committees including the Special Committee on Problems in the Environment (SCOPE). He currently is a member of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Megacity Study Group and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP), Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Scientific Steering Committee. He currently serves (has served) as the co-leader of several climate impacts and land use studies both statewide and in the New York metropolitan region, including the New York City Panel on Climate Change, the Statewide Integrated Assessment for Effective Climate Change Adaptation Strategies (ClimAID) project, and the Metropolitan East Coast Assessment of Impacts of Potential Climate Variability and Change. He holds in degrees in Geography from Columbia University (BA) and Rutgers University (MA, Ph.D).