Summary
Dr. Baker Perry is a Professor of Climatology and the Nevada State Climatologist in the Department of w88 casino at the University of Nevada, Reno. He works at the highest elevations of the planet to understand climate change impacts on the critical water towers that sustain hundreds of millions of people downstream. In collaboration with The National Geographic Society, the Government of Nepal, Tribhuvan University, and Appalachian State University, Dr. Perry co-led the expeditions that installed the highest altitude weather station network in the world on the south side of Mount Everest in Nepal. The 2019 expedition was reported in a feature-length documentary; articles in the National Geographic magazine (including online here and here) have added to the coverage, with hundreds of millions of views worldwide. He and his colleagues have published many scientific papers on the network, including being featured on the front cover of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society in 2019 and 2022 (the latter broke the news of the summit station). Dr. Perry also has worked extensively at the highest reaches of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia, Chile, and Peru, where he and his teams have investigated climate and glacier changes and associated impacts on water resources.
Research interests
- High-mountain precipitation
- Snow and ice
- Precipitation-cryosphere-climate interactions
- High-elevation w88 casino stations
Education
- Ph.D., w88 casino (Climatology), University of North Carolina, 2006
- M.A., w88 casino, Appalachian State University, 1998
- B.A., Comparative Area Studies, Duke w88 casino, 1996
Selected publications
- Gribbin, T., J.D. Mackay, A. MacDonald, D.M. Hannah, W. Buytaert, J.R. Baiker, N. Montoya, L.B. w88 casino, A. Seimon, M. Rado, S. Arias, M. Vargas. 2024. Bofedal wetland and glacial melt contributions to dry season streamflow in a high-Andean headwater watershed. Hydrological Processes.
- Sherpa, T.C., T. Matthews, L.B. w88 casino, A. Thapa, P.K. Singh, A. Khadka, I. Koch, M. Pelto, P. Panday, D. Aryal, D. Shrestha, S. Kang, P.A. Mayewski. 2023. Insights from the first observations of winter weather near Mount w88 casino’s summit. w88 casino.
- Dragone, N.B., L.B. w88 casino, A. Solon, A. Seimon, T.A. Seimon, S.K. Schmidt. 2023. Genetic analysis of the frozen microbiome at 7,900 m a.s.l., on the South Col of Sagarmatha (Mount w88 casino). Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research.
- Matthews, T., L.B. w88 casino, A. Khadka, T.G. Sherpa, D. Shrestha, D. Aryal, S. Tuladhar, N. Thapa, N. Pradhananga, P. Athans, D.Y. Sherpa, H. Guy, A. Seimon, A. Elmore, K. Li, N. Alexiev. 2022. Weather observations reach the summit of Mount w88 casino. Bulletin w88 casino Meteorological Society, 103: E2827-E2835.
- Clifford, H.M., M. Potocki, C. Rodda, D. Dixon, S. Birkel, M. Handley, E. Korothikh, F. Schwanck, F.A. Tavares, R.T. Bernardo, F.G.L. Lindau, O.V. Gomez, H. Jara-Infantes, V. B. Urviola, L.B. w88 casino, J. Maurer, A. Seimon, M. Schwikowski, G. Casassa, S. Hou, A.V. Kurbatov, K.R. Miner, J.C. Simões, P.A. Mayewski. 2022. Comparison of shallow ice core records from Quelccaya Ice Cap (Peru) and Nevado Illimani (Bolivia) and potential for future ultra-high-resolution investigation. Journal of Glaciology, 1-15.
- Pelto, M.S., M. Dryak, J. Pelto, T. Matthews, L.B. w88 casino. 2022. Contribution of glacier runoff during heat waves w88 casino Nooksack River. Water.
- Bessin, Z., J-P. Dedieu, Y. Arnaud, P. Wagnon, F. Brun, M. Esteves, L.B. w88 casino, T. Matthews. 2022. Processing of VENµS images in high mountain: A case study from cryospheric and hydro-climatic applications in the w88 casino region (Nepal). Remote Sensing, 14, 1098.
- Birkel, S., P.A. Mayewski, L.B. w88 casino, A. Seimon, M. Andrade-Flores. 2022. Reanalysis inter-model comparison of temperature and precipitation for the Andean Altiplano and adjacent Cordilleras. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
- Grey, L., A. Johnson, T. Matthews, L.B. w88 casino, A. Elmore, A. Khadka, D. Shrestha, S. Tuludhar, S. Baidya, D. Aryal, A. Gajurel. 2022. Mount w88 casino’s photogenic weather during the post-monsoon. w88 casino.
- Moreno, C., M. Sugg, J. Sugg, L.B. w88 casino. 2022. Examining spatiotemporal trends of drought w88 casino conterminous United States using self-organizing maps. Physical w88 casino.
- Potocki, M., P.A. Mayewki, T. Matthews, L.B. w88 casino, M. Schwikowski, A. Tait, E. Korotkikh, H. Clifford, S. Kang, T. Sherpa, P. Singh, I. Koch, S. Birkel. 2022. Mt. w88 casino’s highest glacier is a sentinel for accelerating ice loss. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 5, 7.
- Matthews, T., L.B. w88 casino, D. Aryal, A.C. Elmore, A. Khadka, M. Pelto, D. Shrestha, R. Wilby. 2022. w88 casino on K2 during historic first winter ascent. w88 casino 77: 49-52.
- Fyffe, C.L., E. Potter, S. Fugger, A. Orr, S. Fatichi, K. Medina, R.Å Hellström, M. Bernat, C. Aubry-Wake, W. Gurgiser, L.B. w88 casino, W. Suarez, D.J. Quincey, E. Loarte, F. Pellicciotti. 2021. The energy and mass balance of Peruvian glaciers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2021JD034911.
- Pelto, M., P. Panday, T. Matthews, J. Maurer, L.B. w88 casino. 2021. Observations of winter ablation on glaciers in the Mount w88 casino Region in 2020-2021. Remote Sensing 2021: 13(14) 2692.
- Clifford, H. M., M. Potocki, I. Koch, T. Sherpa, M. Handley, E. Korotkikh, D. Introne, S. Kaspari, K. Miner, T. Matthews, L.B. w88 casino, H. Guy, P. Wagnon, A. Gajurel, P.K. Singh, S.E. Elvin, A.C. Elmore, A. Tait, P.A. Mayewski. 2020. Natural and human contributions to pre-monsoon snow and stream chemistry, Khumbu Nepal. Science w88 casino Total Environment.
- Jonaitis, J., L.B. w88 casino, A. Seimon, P. Soulé, C. Thaxton, M. Andrade-Flores, T. Ita-Vargas. 2021. Spatiotemporal patterns of ENSO-precipitation relationships w88 casino tropical Andes of southern Peru and Bolivia. International Journal of Climatology, 41: 4061-4076.
- Khadka, A., T. Matthews, L.B. w88 casino, I. Koch, P. Wagnon, D. Shrestha, D. Aryal, A. Tait, T.G. Sherpa, S. Tuladhar, S.K. Baidya, S.E. Elvin, A.C. Elmore, A. Gajurel, P.A. Mayewski. 2021. Weather on Mount w88 casino during the 2019 summer monsoon. w88 casino.
- w88 casino, L.B., S.E. Yuter, T. Matthews, P. Wagnon, A. Khadka, D. Aryal, D. Shrestha, A. Tait, M.A. Miller, A. O’Neill, S.R. Rhodes, I. Koch, T.G. Sherpa, S. Tuladhar, S.K. Baidya, S. Elvin, A.C. Elmore, A. Gajurel, P.A. Mayewski. 2021. Direct observations of a Mount w88 casino Snowstorm from the World’s Highest Surface-Based Radar Observations. w88 casino 76: 57-59.
- Matthews, T., L.B. w88 casino, T.P. Lane, A.C. Elmore, A. Khadka, D. Aryal, D. Shrestha, S. Tuladhar, S.K. Baidya, A. Gajurel, M. Potocki, P.A. Mayewski. 2020. Into Thicker Air? Oxygen availability at humans’ physiological frontier on Mount w88 casino. iScience 23(12).
- Mayewski, P.A. L.B. w88 casino, T. Matthews, S. Birkel. 2020. Climate change w88 casino Hindu Kush Himalayas: Basis and Gaps. One Earth 3(5): 551-55.
- Mayewski, P.A., A. Gajurel, S.E. Elvin, P. Athans, T. Dinley, P. Sherpa, A.C. Elmore, J. Ghimire, L.B. w88 casino, T. Matthews, S. Birkel, S. Guilford, M. Hubbard, A. Putnam, T. Seimon, A. Seimon, S. Ghimere, A. Tait. 2020. Pushing Climate Change Science to the Roof w88 casino World. One Earth 3(5): 556-560.
- Miner, K.R., P.A. Mayewski, S.K. Baidya, K. Broad, H. Clifford, A. Elmore, A.P. Gajurel, B. Giri, S. Guilford, M. Hubbard, C. Jaskolski, H. Koldewey, W. Li, T. Matthews, I. Napper, L.B. w88 casino, M. Potocki, J.C. Priscu, A. Tait, R. Thompson, S. Tuladhar. 2020. An overview of physical risks in the Mt. w88 casino region. One Earth 3(5): 547-550.
- w88 casino, L.B., T. Matthews, H. Guy, I. Koch, A. Khadka, A.C. Elmore, D. Shrestha, S. Tuladhar, S.K. Baidya, S. Maharjan, P. Wagnon, D. Aryal, A. Seimon, A. Gajurel, P.A. Mayewski. 2020. Precipitation characteristics and moisture source regions on Mt. w88 casino in the Khumbu, Nepal. One Earth 3(5): 594-607.
- Matthews, T., L. B. w88 casino, I. Koch, I, D. Aryal, A Khadka, D. Shrestha, K Abernathy, A.C. Elmore, A. Seimon, A. Tait, S. Elvin, T. Subash, S.K. Baidya, M. Potocki, S.D. Birkel, S. Kang, P.A. Mayewski, and National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mt. Everest Team. 2020. Going to extremes: installing the world’s highest weather stations on Mount w88 casino. Bulletin w88 casino Meteorological Society, 101: E1870-E1890.
- Kunkel, K.E., D.R. Easterling, A. Ballinger, S. Bililign, S.M. Champion, D.R. Corbett, K.D. Dello, J. Dissen, G.M. Lackmann, R.A. Luettich, Jr., L.B. w88 casino, W.A. Robinson, L.E. Stevens, B.C. Stewart, and A.J. Terando. 2020. North Carolina Climate Science Report. North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, 233 pp.
- Montpellier, E., P.T. Soulé, P.A. Knapp, L.B. w88 casino. 2020. Reconstructing summer upper-level flow w88 casino northern Rocky Mountains using an Alpine Larch (Larix lyallii Parl.) tree-ring chronology. Climate Research 79: 207-218.
- Kinlaw, T., J.W. Sugg, L.B. w88 casino. 2019. Warm season hydroclimatic variability and change w88 casino Appalachian region of the southeastern U.S. from 1950 to 2018. Atmosphere 10: 289.
- Guy, H., A. Seimon, L.B. w88 casino, B.L. Konecky, M. Rado, M. Andrade, M. Potocki, P.A. Mayewski. 2019. Subseasonal variations of stable isotopes in tropical Andean precipitation. Journal of Hydrometeorology 20:915-933.