2011-2012 Speakers
Heidi Cullen
Interim CEO of Climate Central and the Weather Channel's first on-air climate expert
November 2, 2011
7 p.m.
Tilson Auditorium
In addition to her responsibilities as interim CEO and Director of Communications, Heidi Cullen serves as a research scientist and correspondent for Climate Central - a non-profit science journalism organization headquartered in Princeton, NJ.
Before joining Climate Central, where she reports on climate and energy issues for programs like PBS NewsHour, Cullen served as The Weather Channel’s first on-air climate expert and helped create Forecast Earth, a weekly television series focused on issues related to climate change and the environment.
Cullen, who received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in climatology and ocean-atmosphere dynamics at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University from Columbia University, worked as a research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO. She received the NOAA Climate & Global Change Fellowship and spent two years at Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society working to apply long-range climate forecasts to the water resources sector in Brazil and Paraguay.
She is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society and is an Associate Editor of the journal Weather, Climate, Society.
She currently serves as a member of the NOAA Science Advisory Board and is the author of “The Weather of the Future.”