Elizabeth A. Barnes

Elizabeth A. Barnes
OccupationsClimate scientist, professor
Writing career
SubjectArtificial Intelligence for science
Websitewww.barnes-research.com

Elizabeth A. Barnes is an American climate scientist. Barnes is best known for her work and expertise on the use of statistical methods to understand the variability of Earth's short- and long-term climate. Her work is characterized by an integration of both physics and computer science approaches. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society.

Early life and education

Barnes grew up in Minnesota. She earned two bachelor's degrees, summa cum laude, at the University of Minnesota, where she studied mathematics and physics. She went on to earn a PhD in Atmospheric science from the University of Washington, where she specialized in eddy mean flow interactions of the midlatitude jet stream. Following her graduate studies, Barnes accepted a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate and Global Change post-doctoral fellowship, located at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.

Research and career

While a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University, Barnes led research that explored the relationship of ongoing anthropogenic climate change and Arctic amplification,[1] changes to Northern Hemisphere circulation,[2] and the future of extreme events[3]

In 2013, Barnes joined the faculty of the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. As of October 2022, Barnes had led or co-authored more than 115 scholarly journal articles. Notably, Barnes was an early adopter of machine-learning methods for understanding climate variability and change.[4] This work has been recognized as "trustworthy, authoritative and expertly targeted to make real, concrete advances" in the understanding of the climate system.

In summer 2025, Barnes' group moved to Boston University where she now holds the Dalton Family Chair in Environmental Data Science and Sustainability and is a Professor of Computing & Data Sciences and Professor of Earth & Environment

Barnes' research lab has worked broadly in the field of climate science, including making major contributions to explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for earth science, subseasonal-to-decadal predictability, climate intervention, climate change and sustainability, large-scale atmospheric dynamics, and causal discovery.

Selected Awards and honours

References

  1. ↑ The impact of Arctic warming on the midlatitude jet‐stream: Can it? Has it? Will it? Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 6 (3), 277-286 | Accessed August 8, 2022.
  2. ↑ CMIP5 projections of Arctic amplification, of the North American/North Atlantic circulation, and of their relationship EA. Barnes, LM Polvani, Journal of Climate 28 (13), 5254-5271 | Accessed August 8, 2022.
  3. ↑ Model projections of atmospheric steering of Sandy-like superstorms EA Barnes, LM Polvani, AH Sobel Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (38), 15211-15215 | Accessed August 8, 2022.
  4. ↑ Elizabeth Barnes receives AGU Turco Lectureship award for climate science Accessed February 15, 2008.
  5. ↑ "Honor and Recognize".
  6. ↑ "President Biden Honors Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists".
  7. ↑ "Congratulations to the 2021 AGU Union Medal, Award, and Prize Recipients". Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  8. ↑ "Honor and Recognize". Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  9. ↑ "Elizabeth Barnes receives AGU Turco Lectureship award for climate science". Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  10. ↑ "Elizabeth Barnes receives AMS Meisinger Award for early career research". Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  11. ↑ "CAREER: Causal Connections Between the Arctic and Mid-latitudes". Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  12. ↑ "BARNES RECEIVES THE 2014 JAMES R. HOLTON JUNIOR SCIENTIST AWARD". Retrieved 2022-08-19.
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