2024 NOAA C&GC Summer Institute Co-Leads

Institute Co-Lead | Brandon Wolding

Brandon Wolding is a research scientist at the NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, where he uses process-oriented diagnostics to improve model representation of tropical convective variability, cloud organization, and ocean-atmosphere coupling. Brandon began his work at NOAA PSL as a NOAA Climate and Global Change fellow in 2018, and then joined the Atmosphere-Ocean Processes and Predictability team in August of 2020. His previous work includes examining how tropical-extratropical interactions will change in a warming climate, furthering understanding of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), and the role of air-sea interactions in the MJO. Brandon first worked for NOAA as an observer biologist aboard longline tuna and swordfish boats in the Hawaiian and American Samoan fisheries.

Institute Co-Lead | Pat Keys

Dr. Patrick (Pat) Keys is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University.  His research is focused broadly on climate and societal change, examining climate extremes, the changing atmospheric water cycle, and designing radical scenarios of the future. Previously, Pat founded an environmental consultancy working globally on topics related to climate change resilience. Pat also regularly engages publicly on global change science, having been invited to speak at the United Nations, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and at his local K-12 school district's Climate Summit.