Ben Kirtman
Biography
Ben Kirtman is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. In his research, Kirtman uses atmosphere-ocean general circulation models to study the predictability and variability of the Earth’s climate system.
Kirtman serves as Director, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmosphere Studies at the University of Miami, and as the Program Director for Climate and Environmental Hazards at the University of Miami’s Center for Computational Science. Kirtman has also served as a Research Scientist at the Center for Ocean-LandAtmosphere Studies and was an Associate Professor at the George Mason University before he joined the Rosenstiel School in 2007.
Kirtman has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers focused on understanding the variability of the climate system on time scales from days to decades. He is also the Executive Director of Climate Dynamics and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres). Additionally, he is the lead investigator of the North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) Experiment.
He is a co-chair of the NOAA Climate Prediction Task Force and a Coordinating Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report Five. In 2008, he was awarded a distinguished alumnus award from the department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Maryland – College Park.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Maryland-College Park
Master of Science, University of Maryland-College Park
Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics, University of California-San Diego