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Judith A. Curry
Nationality	American
Employer(s)	School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology

Judith A. Curry is an American climatologist. She has been the chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology since 2002. From 1992 to 2002, she was a Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Prior to that, she taught at Penn State, Purdue, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Curry's research interests have included hurricanes, atmospheric modeling, polar climates, and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for atmospheric research.

In 1974 she received a B.S. cum laude from Northern Illinois University in Geography, and received her Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago in 1982. She has published two books and over 140 scientific papers. Among her awards was the Henry G. Houghton Research Award from the American Meteorological Society in 1992.

Career

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Dr. Curry has conducted research into possible connections between hurricane intensity and global warming and has co-authored and written several books and papers related to her field.

While she supports the scientific opinion on climate change, she has written that climatologists should be more transparent in their dealings with the public saying, "This whole concept of, ‘We’re the experts, trust us,’ has clearly gone by the wayside". She also stated "We won the war — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, and climate and energy legislation is near the top of the U.S. agenda, ... Why keep fighting all these silly battles and putting ourselves in this position?"

She supports engagement with those skeptical of the scientific consensus on climate change and the benefits of blog-led debate. She published an open letter on various blogs called "On the Credibility of Climate Change, Towards Rebuilding Trust."

References

1. "Judith Curry CV".
2. Curry, J.A.; Webster, P.J.; Holland, G.J. (2006), "Mixing Politics and Science in Testing the Hypothesis That Greenhouse Warming Is Causing a Global Increase in Hurricane Intensity" (PDF), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87 (8): 1025–1037, doi:10.1175/BAMS-87-8-1025
3. "Thermodynamics of atmospheres and oceans".
4. "FIRE Arctic clouds experiment".
5. "Refereed Papers". www.curry.eas.gatech.edu. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
6. ^ Revkin, Andrew (NOVEMBER 27, 2009). "A Climate Scientist Who Engages Skeptics". New York Times. Retrieved 24 April 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
7. ^ REVKIN, ANDREW C. (November 27, 2009). New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/science/earth/28hack.html?_r=1. Retrieved 24 April 2010. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
8. Curry, Judith (March 22nd, 2010). "Judith Curry On the Credibility of Climate Research". www.earthzine.org. Retrieved 25 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
9. Curry, Judith (27 11 2009). "An open letter from Dr. Judith Curry on climate science". Watts Up With That. Retrieved 24 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
10. Turner, Amy (February 28, 2010). "Richard Dawkins' pro-am clash in the boffins' blogosphere". The Times. Retrieved 24 April 2010.

External links

• Curry's home page at Georgia Tech

• Email interview of Judith Curry by journalist Keith Kloor, April 23, 2010. Prof. Curry also responds to questions in the comments thread (scroll down).

General-interest articles by Curry

• Opinion: Can scientists rebuild the public trust in climate science? at Physics Today, February 24, 2010

• Curry's open letter to graduate students and young scientists in fields related to climate research at Joseph Romm's "Climate Progress", November 27, 2009.

• Curry: On the credibility of climate research at Climate Audit, Nov 22, 2009

• Earlier climate policy articles by Curry, 2003-2008

• Living people
• American climatologists
• Georgia Institute of Technology people