Kim Cobb

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Kim Cobb (2010)

Kim M. Cobb is an American climate scientist . She is a professor at Georgia Tech .

Life

Cobb graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in geology and biology in 1996 . She received her PhD in oceanography from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego in 2002 . From 2002 to 2004 she worked as a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. In 2014 she moved to Georgia Tech , initially as an assistant professor, from 2010 as an associate professor and from 2015 as a professor. Since 2016 she has been an Advance Professor for Institutional Diversity and holds the Georgia Power Chair. She has been heading the Global Change Program there since 2018.

Cobb is the mother of four children.

Act

Cobb's research uses corals and cave stalagmites to study the mechanisms of past, present, and future climate change. She is one of the lead authors of the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC .

Cobb is also dedicated to clearly and frequently communicating global warming to the public through lectures and social media. She warns of the consequences of the climate crisis . She once said: "We are facing the triple threat of rising sea levels, stronger winds and unprecedented amounts of rain." According to her, politics cannot ignore research data on climate change: "We may not have as much data as we would like, but we do have enough to invest heavily in various protective measures for coastal locations. "

Cobb has received numerous awards for her work, including the Hans Oeschger Medal (2020).

Publications (selection)

  • Cobb, KM, Charles, CD, Cheng, H., & Edwards, RL (2003). El Niño / Southern Oscillation and tropical Pacific climate during the last millennium. Nature, 424 (6946), 271. doi: 10.1038 / nature01779
  • Cobb, KM, Westphal, N., Sayani, HR, Watson, JT, Di Lorenzo, E., Cheng, H., ... & Charles, CD (2013). Highly variable El Niño – southern oscillation throughout the Holocene. Science, 339 (6115), 67-70. doi: 10.1126 / science.1228246
  • Newman, M., Alexander, MA, Ault, TR, Cobb, KM, Deser, C., Di Lorenzo, E., ... & Schneider, N. (2016). The Pacific decadal oscillation, revisited. Journal of Climate, 29 (12), 4399-4427. doi: JCLI-D-15-0508.1

credentials

  1. ↑ a b c https://www.eas.gatech.edu/people/cobb-dr-kim
  2. ↑ a b c d http://shadow.eas.gatech.edu/~kcobb/resources/cvs/Cobb_CV_oct19.pdf
  3. ↑ a b c d http://shadow.eas.gatech.edu/~kcobb/people/people.html
  4. ↑ a b More and more tropical storms: Is an era of monster hurricanes coming? t-online, October 9, 2017, accessed December 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Cobb, Kim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cobb, Kim M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Climate scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century