Elizabeth A. Barnes – Professor
Email: eabarnes@colostate.edu
Research and teaching website
Education
- Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science – 2012 – University of Washington, Seattle
- B.S. in Mathematics – 2007 – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- B.S. in Physics – 2007 – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Research Interests
My research is largely focused on climate variability and change, and the data analysis tools used to understand them. Topics of interest include Earth system predictability, jet-stream dynamics, Arctic-midlatitude connections, subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) prediction, and data science methods for Earth system research (e.g., machine learning, causal discovery).
Recent Research Sponsors
- Department of Energy
- National Science Foundation
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Awards and Honors
2022 – Professor of the Year Award, Dept. of Atmospheric Science, CSU
2021 – American Geophysical Union Macelwane Medal
2021 – Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
2021 – Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award
2020 – AGU Future Horizons in Climate Science: Turco Lectureship Award
2020 – AMS Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award
2018 – National Science Foundation CAREER award
2017 – Graduate Advising and Mentorship Award, Honorable Mention, selected by the CSU Graduate Student Council
2016 – George T. Abell Outstanding Early-Career Faculty Award, College of Engineering, CSU
2016 – Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, Dept. of Atmospheric Science, CSU
2014 – James R. Holton Junior Scientist Award, Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union
2012 – NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship, Host Institution: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York
2007 – Top Scholar Award, Graduate School, University of Washington
2006 – Goldwater Scholar, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
Positions
- Associate Editor of AGU’s Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (2021- )
- Associate Editor of AMS’s Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems (2021- )
- National Academies’ Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space (CESAS) member (2021- )
- Steering Committee Member of the CSU Data Science Research Institute (2020- )
- Member of the CESM Science Steering Committee (2020- )
- Co-lead for the US CLIVAR Working Group: Emerging Data Science Tools for Climate Variability and Predictability (2019- )
- Task Force Lead for the NOAA MAPP Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Prediction Task Force, (2016-2020)
- Advisory Panel Member for the Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling (ACOM) Laboratory National Center for Atmospheric Research (2018-2021)
- Associate Editor of the Journal of Climate (2016-2021)
- Member of the NSF Arctic Science Section Portfolio Review Committee (2018)
- Panel member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space 2017 (2016-2018)
- AMS Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (AOFD) Committee (2017-2020)
- Editorial Board Member for npj Climate and Atmospheric Science (2017-2020)
- Member of the International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology, a Commission of the IAMAS (2014-2020)
- Professional Society Memberships: American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society