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About the Authors of the Climate Studies

February 13, 2015
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ALEX HALL, Ph.D. Dr. Alex Hall is a UCLA professor whose research is focused on reducing climate change uncertainty at both regional and global scales. At the global scale, his goal is to reduce uncertainty surrounding processes determining the climate system's response to increases in greenhouse gases. At the regional scale, he has been active in the development of downscaling techniques to reduce uncertainty about processes that are crucial to regional climate change, but are unrepresented in global climate models. Dr. Hall was a Contributing Author to the 2007 IPCC 4th scientific assessment of climate change Working Group I report, where his work on climate sensitivity is featured. He was also a Lead Author of Chapter 14 of the Working Group I component of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report, entitled "Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional Climate Change," and a Contributing Author of Chapter 9, "Evaluation of Climate Models."

At UCLA, Dr. Hall is professor in UCLA's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and a member of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, where he is the faculty director of the UCLA Center for Climate Change Solutions. He is also a member of the executive committee of the UCLA-JPL Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering. He teaches climate-related courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Fellowship (1993-1996), the NASA Earth System Science Fellowship (1996-1998), the Lamont Fellowship (1999-2001), and the NSF CAREER award (2002-2007).

After receiving his B.A. in 1993 from Pomona College, he went on to receive his Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University in 1998. He followed this with two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York before arriving at UCLA in 2000.

FENGPENG SUN, Ph.D. Dr. Sun is an assistant researcher in the UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.

DANIEL WALTON, Ph.D. Dr. Walton is a postdoctoral researcher at the UCLA Center for Climate Change Solutions.

NEIL BERG, Ph.D. Dr. Berg is a postdoctoral researcher at the UCLA Center for Climate Change Solutions.

MARLA SCHWARTZ, M.S. Ms. Schwartz is a graduate student in the UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Other contributors to the Climate Change in the Los Angeles Region project include: Scott Capps, Ph.D., former Assistant Researcher, UCLA Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Xin Qu, Ph.D., Assistant Researcher, UCLA Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Hsin-Yuan Huang, Ph.D., Project Scientist, UCLA UCLA-JPL Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering Alexandre Jousse, Graduate Student, UCLA Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Dr. Mark Nakamura, former Graduate Student, UCLA Dept. of Statistics

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