MIT World Speakers

Cynthia Rosenzweig

Cynthia Rosenzweig heads the Climate Impacts Group at the Goddard Institute. She has organized and led large-scale interdisciplinary regional, national, and international studies of climate change impacts and adaptation. She is a Coordinating Lead Author of the chapter on observed changes for the IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report, and served on the IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenarios for Impact and Climate Assessment (TGICA).

Rosenzweig's research involves the development of interdisciplinary methodologies by which to assess the potential impacts of and adaptations to global environmental change. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she has joined impact models with global and regional climate models to predict future outcomes of both land-based and urban systems under altered climate conditions. She is a Professor of Environmental Science at Barnard College and a Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia Earth Institute.

Rosenzweig received a B.S.in Agricultural Sciences, 1980, from Cook College; an M.S. in Soils and Crops, 1983, from Rutgers University; and a Ph.D.in Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences, in 1991, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.