O'Leary Lecture

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Dr. Noah Diffenbaugh: "Is this global warming?"

Dr. Noah Diffenbaugh is the Kara J Foundation Professor in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. He studies the dynamics and impacts of climate variability and change. Much of his work has focused on the role of fine-scale processes in shaping climate change impacts, including studies of extreme weather, water resources, agriculture, human health, and poverty vulnerability. Dr. Diffenbaugh is currently Editor-in-Chief of Geophysical Research Letters, and a member of the Climate Safe Infrastructure Working Group for the State of California. He has served as a Lead Author for Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as a panelist for the “What We Know” Report of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Ad Hoc Committee on Effects of Provisions in the Internal Revenue Code on Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Dr. Diffenbaugh is a recipient of the James R. Holton Award from the American Geophysical Union, a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, and a Terman Fellowship from Stanford University. He has also been recognized a Kavli Fellow by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and as a Google Science Communication Fellow. Before coming to Stanford, he was a member of the faculty of Purdue University, where he was a University Faculty Scholar and served as Interim Director of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC).