Lisa Goddard

International Research Institute for Climate & Society
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
goddard@iri.columbia.edu
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Dr. Lisa Goddard the Director and Senior Research Scientist of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and an adjunct associate professor within the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences of Columbia University. She has been involved in El Niño and climate forecasting research and operations since the mid 1990s. She has extensive experience in forecasting methodology and has published papers on El Niño, seasonal climate forecasting and verification, and probabilistic climate change projections. Currently leading the IRI’s effort on Near-Term Climate Change, Dr. Goddard oversees research and product development aimed at providing climate information at the 10-20 year horizon and how that low frequency variability and change interacts with the probabilistic risks and benefits of seasonal-to-interannual variability. Most of Dr. Goddard’s research focuses on diagnosing and extracting meaningful information from climate models and available observations. She also developed and oversees a new national post-doctoral program, the Post-docs Applying Climate Expertise Program (PACE), which explicitly links recent climate Ph.D.s with decision making institutions. In addition, Dr. Goddard sits on five scientific advisory panels and co-chairs two working groups.

Dr. Goddard holds a Ph.D. in atmospheric and oceanic sciences from Princeton University and a B.A. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley.