Emanuel
Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT
2017 Speaker

Cambridge, MA

Kerry Emanuel is the Cecil and Ida Green professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he has been on the faculty since 1981, after spending three years on the faculty of UCLA. His research interests focus on tropical meteorology and climate, with a specialty in hurricane physics.

Emanuel's interests also include cumulus convection and advanced methods of sampling the atmosphere in aid of numerical weather prediction. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and three books, including Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes, published by Oxford University Press and aimed at a general audience, and What We Know about Climate Change, published by the MIT Press. He is a co-director of MIT’s Lorenz Center, a climate think tank devoted to basic  curiosity-driven climate research.