Heidi Cullen

Heidi Cullen is the chief scientist for the non-profit environmental organization, Climate Central, located in Princeton, New Jersey. In addition, she is a guest lecturer at nearby Princeton University, and the author of the book, The Weather of the Future. A believer in man-made climate change, she was an on-air personality at The Weather Channel, and is a senior research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn).

Life and career

Born in Staten Island, New York, Cullen received a B.S. in engineering/preparations research from Columbia University, followed by a doctorate in climatology and ocean-atmosphere dynamics from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, also at Columbia.^[1]

Subsequent to her educational experiences, Cullen worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), located in Boulder, Colorado. While there, she was given a fellowship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to return to Columbia University, where she worked at the university's International Research Institute for Climate and Society. The fellowship allowed her to contribute to a project which looked at the effect of climate on water resources in Brazil and Paraguay.^[2]

After her fellowship, Cullen joined The Weather Channel, becoming their initial expert on climate change topics. In October 2006 she previewed her 30-minute program, The Climate Code.^[3] In April of the following year, along with a broadband program, The Climate Code would change to an hour format, and be retitled, Forecast Earth; Cullen was part of the creation process of both shows. In November 2008, NBC, the parent company of The Weather Channel, cancelled the program.^[4]

After leaving The Weather Channel, Cullen became the chief climatologist for the not-for-profit organization, Climate Central, where she issues reports on climate topics. In addition to her responsibilities at Climate Central, she lectures at nearby Princeton University, and is a senior research fellow at the Penn's Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center.^[5] In 2010 she authored the book, The Weather of the Future, which gives one perspective of what different locations might look in the year 2050 based upon current climate modeling theories.^[6][7] She also had the capacity of chief science advisor for the Showtime series, The Years of Living Dangerously.^[8][9] She is also currently a member of the Science Advisory Board for NOAA,^[10] and sits on the Council of the American Meteorological Society.^[11]

Awards and accreditations

• National Wildlife Federation - 2008 National Conservationist Award for Science^[12]
• Associate Editor - Weather, Climate, Society^[13]
• American Geophysical Union - member^[1]
• American Meteorological Society - member^[1]
• Society of Environmental Journalists - member^[14]

See also

• Scientific opinion on climate change

Selected publications

• Barlow, Mathew; Wheeler, Matthew; Lyons, Bradfield; Cullen, Heidi (December 2005). "Modulation of Daily Precipitation over Southwest Asia by the Madden-Julian Oscillation". Monthly Weather Review 133 (12): 3579–94. doi:10.1175/MWR3026.1.
• Glantz, Michael H.; Cullen, Heidi (2003). "Zimbabwe's Food Crisis". Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 45 (1): 9–11. doi:10.1080/00139150309604518.
• Barlow, Mathew; Cullen; Lyons, Bradfield (April 2002). "Drought in Central and Southwest Asia: La Nina, the warm pool, and Indian Ocean precipitation". Journal of Climate 15 (7): 697–700. doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<0697:DICASA>2.0.CO;2.
• Visbeck, M.; Hurrell; Polvani, L.; Cullen, Heidi (6 November 2001). "The North Atlantic Oscillation: Past, present, and future". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 (23): 12876–7. doi:10.1073/pnas.231391598.
• Cullen, Heidi; deMenocal, Peter B. (30 June 2000). "North Atlantic Influence on Tigris-Euphrates Streamflow". International Journal of Climatology 20 (8): 853–863. doi:10.1002/1097-0088(20000630)20:8<853::AID-JOC497>3.0.CO;2-M.
• Cullen, Heidi; deMenocal, Peter B.; Hemming, S.; Hemming, G. (April 2000). "The Possible Role of Climate in the collapse of the Akkadian Empire: evidence from the deep sea". Geology 28 (4): 379–382. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<379:CCATCO>2.0.CO;2.
• Cullen, Heidi; D’Arrigo, Roseanne; Cook, Edward; Cook, Edward (February 2001). "Multiproxy reconstructions of the North Atlantic Oscillation". Paleoceanography 16 (1): 27–39. doi:10.1029/1999PA000434.
• Visbeck, Martin; Cullen, Heidi; Krahmann, Gerd; Naik, Naomi (15 December 1998). "An ocean model’s response to North Atlantic Oscillation-like wind forcing". Geophysical Research Letters 25 (24): 4521–5. doi:10.1029/1998GL900162.
• Bond, Gerard; Showers, William; Maziet, Cheseby; Lotti, Rusty; Almasi, Peter; deMenocal, Peter; Priore, Paul; Cullen, Heidi; Hajdas, Irka; Georges, Bonani (14 November 1997). "A pervasive millennial-scale cycle in North Atlantic Holocene and glacial climates". Science 278 (5341): 1257–66. doi:10.1126/science.278.5341.1257.
• What Weather Is the Fault of Climate Change? March 11, 2016 New York Times

References

1. "Dr. Heidi Cullen". The Weather Channel. Archived from the original on October 17, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
2. "Heidi Cullen". The Years Project. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
3. Krause, Alice (August 23, 2006). "Dr Heidi Cullen and The Climate Code". News on Women. Archived from the original on October 17, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
4. Freedman, Andrew (November 21, 2008). "NBC Fires Weather Channel Environmental Unit". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
5. "Heidi Cullen". University of Nebraska. Archived from the original on October 17, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
6. "Books by Heidi Cullen". National Public Radio. Archived from the original on December 5, 2013. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
7. Kakutani 2010
8. "Heidi Cullen - Climatologist leading us through Years of Living Dangerously". International Council for Science. Archived from the original on October 17, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
9. "Years of Living Dangerously: About the Series". Showtime. Archived from the original on July 23, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
10. "Science Advisory Board Members". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
11. "Council of the AMS". American Meteorological Society. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
12. 2008 National Conservation Achievement Award winners
13. "Editors and Staff Contacts". American Meteorological Society. Archived from the original on May 3, 2013. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
14. "Heidi Cullen". Climate Central. Archived from the original on July 19, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.

External links

• Kakutani, Michiko (2 August 2010). "Warming is Real. Now What?". The New York Times.