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Dr. Gavin Schmidt is the Director of GISS and Principal Investigator for the GISS ModelE Earth System Model, with primary interests in understanding past, present and future climate and the impacts of multiple drivers of climate change, including solar irradiance, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and greenhouse gases. In 2021 he served as the acting Senior Climate Adviser to the NASA Administrator. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications and was the author with Joshua Wolfe of “Climate Change: Picturing the Science” in 2009. In 2011 he was the inaugural recipient of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Climate Communication Prize and is a fellow of the AGU and American Association for the Advancement of Science. His 2014 TED Talk on climate modeling has been viewed over a million times.

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