Maxwell Bernstein | February 5, 2021
Gavin Schmidt, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, will serve as NASA’s first senior climate advisor according to a NASA press release. This role is intended to effectively fulfill the Biden Administration’s climate science objectives for NASA.
This position was created to help fulfill the Biden administration’s push to integrate climate policy and science throughout the federal government, according to Scientific American. Gavin Schmidt is an expert in climate modeling where he has authored or co-authored over 150 research papers. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.