Lisa Goddard | |
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Born | Lisa Marie Goddard September 23, 1966 |
Died | January 13, 2022
Mount Kisco, New York, U.S. | (aged 55)
Education |
University of California, Berkeley (
BA) Princeton University ( PhD) |
Spouse | David Cooperberg |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Climate scientist |
Institutions | Columbia University |
Thesis | The energetics of interannual variability in the tropical Pacific Ocean (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | S. George Philander |
Lisa Marie Goddard (September 23, 1966 – January 13, 2022) was an American climate scientist who was director at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI). She joined the institute in 1995 [1] and served as IRI's director from 2012 to 2020. [2] Goddard was also an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University. [3]
Her research focused on forecasting methodology, seasonal climate forecasting and verification, climate change projections and especially on the interpretation of climate models and available observations. [4] [5] She was involved in activities of the World Climate Research Programme and acted as co-chair in CLIVAR from 2013 to 2015. [6]
Lisa Goddard graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in physics in 1988. She received a PhD in atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Princeton University in 1995 under George Philander. [1] [4] She joined IRI as a postdoctoral fellow immediately following her PhD, and spent her entire career there, eventually rising to the Director of the IRI, which position she held from 2012 to 2020. [3] [2]
She began her career at a time when the importance of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation to seasonal weather patterns was just beginning to be understood. [4] The focus of her research would become weather forecasting on seasonal to decadal scales. She sought to provide people with near-term information about weather hazards such as droughts, heat-waves, floods. [1] During the course of her career she collaborated with governments and non-profits in dozens of countries to provide useful short-term forecasts for agriculture, public health, emergency planning and energy production. [4]
Goddard held a number of influential positions during her career. From 2009 to 2017, she was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Board of Atmospheric Science and Climate. [4] She co-chaired World Climate Research Programme's CLIVAR project from 2013 to 2015. [4]
She married David Cooperberg and had two sons. [4] Goddard died from breast cancer in Mount Kisco, New York, on January 13, 2022, at the age of 55. [1]
During her career, she contributed to more than 100 research articles. [7] Many of her most prominent works were related to the use of weather models to forecast on seasonal to decadal scales, including:
Lisa Goddard | |
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Born | Lisa Marie Goddard September 23, 1966 |
Died | January 13, 2022
Mount Kisco, New York, U.S. | (aged 55)
Education |
University of California, Berkeley (
BA) Princeton University ( PhD) |
Spouse | David Cooperberg |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Climate scientist |
Institutions | Columbia University |
Thesis | The energetics of interannual variability in the tropical Pacific Ocean (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | S. George Philander |
Lisa Marie Goddard (September 23, 1966 – January 13, 2022) was an American climate scientist who was director at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI). She joined the institute in 1995 [1] and served as IRI's director from 2012 to 2020. [2] Goddard was also an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University. [3]
Her research focused on forecasting methodology, seasonal climate forecasting and verification, climate change projections and especially on the interpretation of climate models and available observations. [4] [5] She was involved in activities of the World Climate Research Programme and acted as co-chair in CLIVAR from 2013 to 2015. [6]
Lisa Goddard graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in physics in 1988. She received a PhD in atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Princeton University in 1995 under George Philander. [1] [4] She joined IRI as a postdoctoral fellow immediately following her PhD, and spent her entire career there, eventually rising to the Director of the IRI, which position she held from 2012 to 2020. [3] [2]
She began her career at a time when the importance of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation to seasonal weather patterns was just beginning to be understood. [4] The focus of her research would become weather forecasting on seasonal to decadal scales. She sought to provide people with near-term information about weather hazards such as droughts, heat-waves, floods. [1] During the course of her career she collaborated with governments and non-profits in dozens of countries to provide useful short-term forecasts for agriculture, public health, emergency planning and energy production. [4]
Goddard held a number of influential positions during her career. From 2009 to 2017, she was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Board of Atmospheric Science and Climate. [4] She co-chaired World Climate Research Programme's CLIVAR project from 2013 to 2015. [4]
She married David Cooperberg and had two sons. [4] Goddard died from breast cancer in Mount Kisco, New York, on January 13, 2022, at the age of 55. [1]
During her career, she contributed to more than 100 research articles. [7] Many of her most prominent works were related to the use of weather models to forecast on seasonal to decadal scales, including: