Allison M. Thomson

Allison M. Thomson is a Research Scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a partnership of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the University of Maryland, College Park. Her primary research interests are in the field of climate change and land use, using modeling to understand the impacts of global change on agricultural, soil and water resources. Recent research includes regional to global scale simulation modeling studies of agricultural productivity and terrestrial carbon response to climate change. In addition, her research explores alternative future scenarios of land management and the implications for the carbon cycle and food security in Integrated Assessment models. She is a coordinator of the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) process to generate new global land use and emissions scenarios to drive climate modeling experiments for the IPCC fifth assessment report. She is a member of the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium, the American Geophysical Union and the Soil Science Society of America. Ms. Thomson has a Master's in Environmental Management from Duke University and a BA in Geology from Carleton College.