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State Climatologist, Professor of Climatology He/him/his

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