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In an effort to ensure effective fulfillment of the Biden Administration’s climate science objectives for NASA, the agency has established a new position of senior climate advisor and selected Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, to serve in the role in an acting capacity until a permanent appointment is made.
The position of senior climate advisor will provide NASA leadership critical insights and recommendations for the agency’s full spectrum of science, technology, and infrastructure programs related to climate. This will also enable the agency to more effectively align their efforts to help meet the administration’s goals for addressing climate change.
The senior climate advisor will work to promote and engage in climate-related investments in the Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Science Division, promote aeronautics and other technology initiatives focused on reducing carbon dioxide emissions and broad climate impacts, demonstrate and communicate the societal impacts and breadth of NASA investments related to climate, foster communication and coordination within and outside the science community at NASA and actively engage in amplifying the agency’s climate-related research and technological development.
Gavin Schmidt has been GISS director since 2014. His main research interest is the use of climate modeling to understand past, present, and future climate change, and he has authored or co-authored more than 150 research papers in peer-reviewed literature. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was the inaugural winner of the AGU Climate Communication Prize in 2011. He was also awarded NASA’s Outstanding Leadership Medal in 2017.
