Climate Change

October 12, 2022, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Agile Strategy Lab, Central King Building, NJIT Main Campus

Gabriel Vecchi is a Professor at the Princeton University Department of Geosciences and at the Princeton Environmental Institute. Gabriel is the Director of the Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System, a Joint Institute between NOAA and Princeton University. He is also Director of the Princeton University Climate and Energy Grand Challenges program, and of the Princeton Climate and Energy Scholars program. Prior to coming to Princeton University in 2017, he was a Research Oceanographer and the Head of the Climate Variations and Predictability Group at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, New Jersey, where he has been since 2003.

Gabriel is the recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the American Meteorological Society’s Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, the Ascent Award from the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union, the Daniel L. Albritton Outstanding Science Communicator Award, the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal (twice), the U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal, the NOAA-OAR Outstanding Paper of the Year Award, the NOAA Administrator’s Award, the American Geophysical Union’s Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Geophysical Research Letters (twice), and the Cook College, Rutgers University Marine Sciences Student of the Year. Gabriel has been listed in the Thompson Reuters “Highly Cited Researchers” List for each year 2014 through 2020, in recognition for ranking among the top 1% of researchers for most cited in the area of geosciences over the years 2002-2012 through 2008-2018. Gabriel earned a Ph.D. in Oceanography, as well as M.S. degrees in Oceanography and Applied Mathematics, from the University of Washington. His undergraduate degree in Mathematics is from Rutgers University. Gabriel serves as a member of the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Earth System Model (CESM) Scientific Steering Committee, U.S. National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics at the National Academy of Sciences and NOAA’s Climate Observing Systems Council, and is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres). In the past he served as the co-chair of the U.S.-Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Working Group on Hurricanes and Climate, as a member on the WMO-CLIVAR Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel, WMO-CLIVAR Indian Ocean Panel, and the U.S.-CLIVAR Predictability, Prediction, and Applications Interface Panel; and was a Lead Author in Working Group I of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report.

At this event, Gabriel Vecchi talked about the interactions between the atmosphere and oceans on timescales from weeks to centuries, including the El Niño-Southern Oscillation phenomenon, tropical cyclones, and the Asian-Australian monsoon. Gabriel’s recent efforts concentrate on understanding short- and long-term changes to tropical circulation and variability, including characterizing the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones and hurricanes, and global patterns of rainfall and drought.

NJIT welcomed attendees from all area colleges, universities, and professions. This public forum qualified attendees for Professional Development Hours.