CPAESS Scientist Stories

Chuanfei Dong

Chauafei is a Jack Eddy Fellow at Princeton. He has been researching exoplanet habitability, and produced these two very interesting papers. Chaunfei has made unique contributions, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL), to the growing field of exoplanet research by using simulation tools and concepts that are very useful in the study of space and planetary weather.

David Keith | Geo-engineering Experiment

Harvard climate scientists are preparing small-scale atmospheric experiments that could offer insights into the feasibility and risks of deliberately altering the climate to ease global warming.

Li-Chuan Chen

Awarded the 2009 Outstanding Reviewer for the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Benjamin Cook: Climate Modeler and Post-Doctoral Fellow

Weather History Offers Insight Into Global Warming.

Colette Heald | Profile of a Scientist

Received the honourable Professor Crutzen Prize for best paper at the International Young Scientists' Global Change Conference
5-8 November 2006 in Beijing, China

Peter Huybers: Climate Scientist

2009 Winner Of MacArthur 'Genius Grant' & 2009 AGU Macelwane Medal

Irina Marinov | Postdoctoral Research

Irina Marinov pursued postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a NOAA Fellow in Climate and Global Change. These papers report on her work.

Yi Ming | VSP Project Scientist

Congratulations to Yi Ming VSP Project Scientist and Recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE)

Gavin Schmidt: Climate Scientist and NOAA C&GC Postdoctoral Fellow

Gavin has just co-authored a new book "Climate Change: Picturing the Science" with Joshua Wolfe, a documentary and editorial photographer with GHG Photos.

Gabriel Vecchi | In the News

Documenting a pronounced slowdown in the Pacific Ocean atmospheric system that drives the trade winds, a prediction of global warming theory that appears to be coming true . . .

Colin Thor West: Post-Doctoral Fellow

Relationships between climate change and livelihoods in rural Alaskan Native communities.

James Brown | Visiting Scientist

A committee of editors selected James Brown’s paper as a winner of the 2007 Best Paper Award of Computer & Geosciences using the criteria of innovation, computational complexity, exposition, and impact.

Dr. Kerri Pratt | Arctic Snow Photochemistry

"In the Arctic, climate change is happening at an accelerated pace. A big question is, 'what will happen to atmospheric composition in the Arctic as the temperatures rise and snow and ice decline even further?'"

Jeremy Shakun | How Carbon Dioxide Melted the World

Global data set shows that rising greenhouse-gas levels drove the end of the last ice age.

Kelly Mahoney | Hail May be Disappearing

Less hail damage could be good news for gardeners and farmers, but a shift from hail to rain can also mean more runoff, which could raise the risk of flash floods.

Gavin Schmidt | Inaugural Climate Communications Prize Winner

A major new international prize for public communication on climate-change issues has been awarded to Gavin Schmidt of the Earth Institute-affiliated NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Kerri Pratt & Brice Loose | Telluride Workshop

Organized by Paul Shepson (Purdue University), Paty Matrai (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences), and Jan Bottenheim (Environment Canada), 27 interdisciplinary scientists from six countries gathered together to discuss the urgent scientific questions associated with climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

William J. D'Andrea | Climate helped drive Vikings from Greenland

In the May 2011 Issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. D'Andrea presented new confirmation of a cooling and starving scenario affecting the Norse farmers.

Ning Lin | Awarded 2010 Natural Hazards Focus Group Award for Graduate Research

Ning Lin has been awarded the Natural Hazards Focus Group Award for Graduate Research, given annually to a recent Ph.D. recipient for outstanding contributions to natural hazards research.

Myles Allen | Awarded 2010 Appleton Medal and Prize

Dr. Myles Allen wins 2010 Appleton Medal and Prize for his important contributions to the detection and attribution of human influence on climate and quantifying uncertainty in climate predictions.

André van der Westhuysen | Nearshore wave modeller

André van der Westhuysen has been extensively involved in nearshore wave model development to protect the low-lying Netherlands against flooding from the sea.