RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Role of the ocean in the climate system, with emphasis on climate variability, change and
predictability on seasonal to decadal to centennial time scales.
• Interactions between forced climate change and internal variability
• The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and climate
• Climate extremes, including drought and storms
• Use of hierarchies of models to study climate variability and change
HONORS & AWARDS
2021 AGU Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award and Lecture
2018 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
2014-present Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (highlycited.com)
2015 Gold Medal, Department of Commerce
2014 Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
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2008 NOAA Administrator’s Award
2005 Silver Medal, Department of Commerce
1996, 2003 Outstanding Scientific Paper Award, NOAA