Prof. Tandong Yao is one of the world’s foremost authorities on glaciers and environment as well as their impacts on human society. Since the 1980s, he has based his life and research in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) region, also known as the Third Pole o...

Prof. Zhengyu Liu is an intellectual leader at the intersection of climate dynamics, Earth system modeling, and paleoclimate reconstruction who has developed a deep understanding of Earth system interactions and global climate and environmental ch...

Dr. Lai-Yung (Ruby) Leung has been a real force advancing the science and modeling frontiers of environmental change. She is an influential researcher and an outstanding community leader. She has pioneered modeling of regional and global climate chan...

Donald Wuebbles’s research contributions would be notable based solely on his foundational efforts in atmospheric chemistry, including important work on the ozone hole. But his research has been remarkably wide ranging and influential, advancin...

Dr. Neelin’s research spans a number of subfields on climate processes that are germane to global environmental change. He has made groundbreaking contributions to understanding tropical climate dynamics and the impact of anthropogenic forcing ...

Alan Betts’s research “has been transformative by providing a new understanding of one of the fundamental climate processes—land-atmospheric coupling and how it varies from the diurnal to monthly time scale, with land cover, and how...