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.
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.
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NASA has established a new position of senior climate advisor to work with the Biden administration on climate science objectives. The agency said in a Wednesday announcement that the senior climate advisor will advocate for NASA climate investments and work closely with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Management and Budget.
Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Science in New York, will serve in an acting capacity until a permanent appointment is made. Schmidt has been GISS director since 2014, and his main research interest is the use of climate modeling to understand past, present, and future climate change.