Sobel Presents Distinguished Lectures on Climate Science

Adam Sobel, Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and of Earth and Environmental Sciences, was invited to present a talk at the Graduate Students’ Distinguished Visiting Lecture in the Department of Atmospherice Science at the University of Washington on May 10th. His talk was titled, “Climate Risk Science: An Applied Field in Need of Synthesis and Theory”. Sobel also present- ed the lecture, “Climate Risk Science, Fundamental and Applied,” at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC) Scientific Colloquium on May 3rd.

Sobel studies the dynamics of climate and weather phenomena, particularly in the tropics. In recent years he has become particularly interested in under- standing the risks to human society from extreme weather events and climate change.