Noah Diffenbaugh
Noah Diffenbaugh | |
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Diffenbaugh in 2014 | |
| Born | Noah S. Diffenbaugh July 23, 1974 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | B.S. Stanford University (Earth Systems, 1997), M.S. Stanford University (Earth Systems, 1997), Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz (Earth Sciences, 2003) |
| Known for | climate change, science communication |
| Awards | Elected Fellow, William Kaula Award and James R. Holton Award from the American Geophysical Union, CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Earth sciences, climatology |
| Institutions | Stanford University, Purdue University, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Thesis | Global and regional controls on Holocene environments (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lisa C. Sloan |
| Other academic advisors | Paul Koch, Patrick J. Bartlein |
| Doctoral students | Daniel Swain |
| Website | Stanford Profile page |
Noah S. Diffenbaugh (born July 23, 1974) is an American climate scientist at Stanford University, where he is the Kara J Foundation Professor of Earth System Science and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the peer-review journal Environmental Research: Climate (published by IOP Publishing). From 2015-2018, he served as editor-in-chief of the peer-review journal Geophysical Research Letters (published by American Geophysical Union). He is known for his research on the climate system, including the effects of global warming on extreme weather and climate events such as the 2011-2017 California drought.