Otto-Bliesner has worked on multiple chapters in the Assessment Review reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organization which was which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for its long series of such reports. She was one of the 16 lead authors on the 2007 chapter on "Paleoclimate" (). She was one of the 17 lead authors on the 2013 chapter on "Information from the Paleoclimate Archives" ().