Bio

Zack Labe is a Climate Scientist at Climate Central. His research focuses on climate risk, extreme weather, and Arctic change. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Irvine and a B.Sc. from Cornell University, and is an author in over 40 publications. He is regularly interviewed by major news outlets and maintains a following of over 100,000 across social media, where he shares climate data visualizations widely used by journalists, educators, and policymakers.

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Zack Labe is a Climate Scientist at Climate Central. He holds a Ph.D. in Earth System Science from UC Irvine and a B.Sc. from Cornell University, and is a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. He was previously a Research Physical Scientist at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University.

Dr. Labe’s research focuses on understanding how and when regional climate change emerges from natural variability, with particular interests in climate risk, extreme weather, and Arctic change. He uses machine learning and large ensembles of climate models to better understand our past, present, and future climate. He is an author in over 40 peer-reviewed publications and current serves on the AMS Committee on Climate Services, NCAR Climate Data Guide Board of Advisors, and PCAPS ORCAS Task Team.

Dr. Labe is also known for his work in science communication. He has delivered over 150 talks and presentations at scientific conferences, universities, and public events around the world, and is regularly interviewed by major news outlets, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN, and NPR. He has a following of over 100,000 across social media, where he shares climate data visualizations that are freely available and widely used by journalists, educators, and policymakers.

The views presented here only reflect my own. These figures may be freely distributed (with credit). Information about the data can be found on my references page and methods page.