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Elizabeth A. Barnes – Professor

Elizabeth Barnes

Email: eabarnes@colostate.edu
Research and teaching website

Education

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

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

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