Lisa Marie Goddard was an American climate scientist who was director at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society.
10 Facts About Lisa Goddard
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Lisa Goddard joined the institute in 1995 and served as IRI's director from 2012 to 2020.
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Lisa Goddard's research focused on forecasting methodology, seasonal climate forecasting and verification, climate change projections and especially on the interpretation of climate models and available observations.
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Lisa Goddard was involved in activities of the World Climate Research Programme and acted as co-chair in CLIVAR from 2013 to 2015.
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Lisa Goddard graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in physics in 1988.
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Lisa Goddard received a PhD in atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Princeton University in 1995 under George Philander.
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Lisa Goddard joined IRI as a postdoctoral fellow immediately following her PhD, and spent her entire career there, eventually rising to the Director of the IRI, which position she held from 2012 to 2020.
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Lisa Goddard sought to provide people with near-term information about weather hazards such as droughts, heat-waves, floods.
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Lisa Goddard co-chaired World Climate Research Programme's CLIVAR project from 2013 to 2015.
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Lisa Goddard died from breast cancer in Mount Kisco, New York, on January 13,2022, at the age of 55.