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Program in Climate and Society


Degree Programs: Full time: Free-Standing M.A.

Director: Mark A. Cane, Ph.D.
105B Oceanography
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Tel: 212.845.9896
Fax: 845.365.8163


Associate Director: Mingfang Ting, Ph.D.
104C Oceanography
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Tel: 845.365.8374


Associate Director: David Leonard Downie, Ph.D.
Hogan Hall Level B
Tel: 212.854.9896


Faculty

Tony Barnston:
Director of Forecast Operations Climate, Prediction, Dynamics; Lecturer (International Research Institute for Climate Prediction), Ph.D.
Interests: Improving forecasting operations
Casey Brown:
Associate Research Scientist (IRI), Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests: Hydroclimatologic variability and change, climate risk management in water and energy;, water, climate and economic development
Mark A. Cane:
Professor (Earth and Environmental Sciences);G. Unger Vetlesen Professor, Earth and Climate Sciences, Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics, Ph.D., MIT, 1975
Interests: climate dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics;Impacts of Climate on Society, E l Niño forecasting
Steven Cohen:
Director of Executive Master of Public Administration Program and Director of MPA Program in Environmental Science and Policy, Ph.D, SUNY (Buffalo), 1979
Interests: Environmental policy, management
Anthony Del Genio:
Adjunct Associate Professor (Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Ph.D., UCLA, 1978
Interests: Role of clouds and water vapor in climate, dynamics of planetary atmospheres
Peter B. de Menocal:
( Paleoclimatology ) Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1992
Interests: How and why climate has changed in the past, ocean circulation variability, Tropical-extratropical paloeclimate linkages, Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of tropical climates, African climate and Human Evolution
David Leonard Downie:
Director, Global Roundtable on Climate Change, Ph.D., University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), 1996
Interests: Political and economic issues surrounding international regulation of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dana Fisher:
Associate Professor (Sociology), Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison), 2001
Interests: Political sociology; environmental sociology; collective behavior and social movements
Lisa Goddard:
Research Scientist, Lecturer (International Research Institute for Climate Prediction), Ph.D., Princeton
Interests: Climate diagnostics and climate predictability
Upmanu Lall:
Professor of Civil Engineering, Ph.D., University of Texas, 1981
Interests: Statistical and numerical modeling of hydrologic and climatic systems, planning and management of water resource systems;Water quality; hydro-climatic chang
Douglas G. Martinson:
( Physical Oceanography ) Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1982
Vijay Modi:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1984
Interests: energy sources and conversion. heat/mass transfer, and fluid mechanics. His current areas of research interest are related to: energy infrastructure, CO2 sequestration, fuel cells, distributed sensing/control of flow, and heat transfer
John C. Mutter:
Deputy Director/Associate Vice Provost of the Earth Institute at Columbia (Earth and Environmental Sciences), Ph.D., Columbia, 1982
Interests: Global tectonics using geophysical techniques
Mary Northridge:
Associate Professor (Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health), Ph.D., Columbia
Interests: Urbanism and Public Health; Environmental racism and asthma
Dorothy M. Peteet:
( Paleoecology ) Lecturer;Scientist/Adjunct Senior Research Scientist (Lamont-Doherty), Ph.D., New York University, 1983
Alexander S. Pfaff:
Associate Professors (International and Public Affairs), Ph.D., MIT, 1995
Interests: The interplay between the environment and economic growth and development
David Rind:
Adjunct Professor (Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Ph.D., Columbia, 1976
Interests: Using modeling to understand past and future climate changes due to greenhouse gas accumulate in the atmosphere
Cynthia Rosenzweig:
Research Scientist (Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies ), Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1991
Interests: The development of interdisciplinary methodologies to assess potential impacts of and adaptations to global environmental change
Christopher Small:
( Marine Geophyics/ Remote Sensing ) Associate Research Scientist, Ph.D., UC San Diego, 1993
Shiv Someshwar:
Research Scientist, Lecturer (International Research Institute for Climate Prediction), Ph.D,
Interests: Reducing livelihood vulnerability to climate variability
Awash Teklehaimanot:
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.Sc., Ph.D., M.P.H., Bowling Green State Univerity, Purdue University, Harvard, 1978, 1982, 1988
Interests: The epidemiology of malaria dn its impact
Mingfang Ting:
Doherty Senior Research Scientist: Lecturer, Ph.D., Princeton, 1990
Interests: Impact of global climate change on regional scales.
M. Neil Ward:
( International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI) ) Director of Decision Systems Research , Information, Training, Downscaling, Ph.D.
Interests: The important links between forecast products and user applications




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