Gerald M. Stokes is Vice President, International Partnerships for Laboratory Operations at Battelle. He is located at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaborative enterprise created by the Pacific NW National Laboratory (PNNL) and the University of Maryland. Previously he has served as the Director of JGCRI and as an Associate Laboratory Director of PNNL, responsible for the Environmental and Health Sciences Division, the basic research division of PNNL. He also has held a variety other scientific and management positions during his 25-year tenure at PNNL. He was the Chief Scientist of Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program from 1990-1998, a major climate research program. He served on the National Committee on Science Education Standards and Assessment. He has also served as the President of the Board of the Columbia River Exposition of History Science and Technology and on the board of the Association for the Advancement of Science through Astronomy. He holds a BA in Physics from the University of California at Santa Cruz and both Ph.D. and Masters in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Chicago. His primary research interests include climate and the design of large-scale field research facilities. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 journal articles, book chapters, and reports on topics including comets, the interstellar medium, atmospheric spectroscopy and energy utilization. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland and is a member of Sigma Xi, the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.