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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


Faculty

Tony Barnston:
Director of Forecast Operations Climate, Prediction, Dynamics; Lecturer (International Research Institute for Climate Prediction), Ph.D.
Interests: Improving forecasting operations
Mark A. Cane:
Professor G. Unger Vetlesen Professor, Earth and Climate Sciences,Ph.D., Ph.D., MIT, 1975
Interests: Climate dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics; impacts of climate on society, El Nino forecasting
Steven Cohen:
Director of Executive Master of Public Administration Program and Director of MPA Program in Environmental Science and Policy, Ph.D. , State Universtiy of New York (Buffalo), Ph.D, SUNY (Buffalo), 1979
Interests: Environmental policy, management
Anthony Del Genio:
Adjunct Associate Professor (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Ph.D., UCLA California (Los Angeles), 1978
Interests: Role of clouds and water vapor in climate, dynamics of planetary atmospheres
Peter B. de Menocal:
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
Lisa Goddard:
Research Scientist (International Research Institute for Climate Prediction) Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton
Interests: Climate diagnostics and climate predictability
Joseph H. Graziano:
Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Environmental Public Health and Pharmacology, Ph.D., Rutgers, 1971
Interests: Understanding the consequences of exposure to metals both on the molecular and population levels
Patrick L. Kinney:
Associate Professor (Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health), Ph.D., Harvard, 1986
Interests: Air pollution exposure assessment, pollution epidemiology
Upmanu Lall:
Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science), Ph.D., Texas, 1981
Interests: Statistical and numerical modeling of hydrologic and climatic systems, planning and management of water resource systems;water quality; hydro-climatic change
Vijay Modi:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1984
Interests: Energy sources and conversion, energy infrastructure, fuel cells, heat/mass transfer, and fluid mechanics, 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
Mathew J Neidell:
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management (Mailman School of Public Health), Ph.D., California (Los Angeles), 2002
Interests: Understanding how behavior affects estimates of the association between pollution and health, examining the impact of early investments in children
Cynthia Rosenzweig:
Research Scientist (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies ), Ph.D., Massachusetts, 1991
Interests: The development of interdisciplinary methodologies to assess potential impacts of and adaptations to global environmental change
Shiv Someshwar:
Research Scientist, Lecturer (International Research Institute for Climate Prediction), Ph.D,
Interests: Reducing livelihood vulnerability to climate variability
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) ) (International Research Institute for Climate Prediction), Ph.D.
Interests: Links between forecast products and user applications
Paige West:
Associate Professor (Barnard), PhD, Rutgers, 2000
Interests: Environmentalism, globalization, critical anaylses of conservation and development, bioethics, consumption; Melanesia Pacific




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