Author: Chris Forest

Chris E. Forest is Professor of Climate Dynamics in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also currently affiliated wth the Department of Geosciences, an associate in the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, and associate director for the Network for Sustainable Climate Risk Management. He is the Director for the Penn State Center for Earth System Modeling, Analysis, and Data (ESMAD). Prior to joining Penn State in 2008, he worked at MIT as a Research Scientist in the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change after finishing his PhD. He has a B.S. in Applied Mathematics, Engineering, and Physics (AMEP) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.