Alexander Gershunov

Title: Research Meteorologist

Institution:
University of California, San Diego

Degree: 
PhD, Geography

S
pecialty:Understanding the links between regional weather extremes and large-scale climate variability and change, long-range climate prediction, paleoclimate reconstruction, the atmospheric water cycle, water resources, heat waves, climate and wildfire, climate and infectious disease, climate influence on society and human influence on climate.

Website:
www.scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/agershunov

Alexander is a signatory of the Tyndall Petition, a statement backed by climate experts acknowledging the significant risks of climate change and the urgent need for emission reductions.

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