Bio

Patrick T. Brown is a Ph.D. climate scientist. He is a Co-Director of the Climate and Energy Team at The Breakthrough Institute and is an adjunct faculty member (lecturer) in the Energy Policy and Climate Program at Johns Hopkins University.

He holds a Ph.D. from Duke University in Earth and Climate Sciences, a Master’s degree from San Jose State University in Meteorology & Climate Science, and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.

He has conducted research at the Carnegie Institution at Stanford University, NASA JPL at Caltech, NASA Langley in Virginia, NASA Goddard in Washington DC, and NOAA’s GFDL at Princeton University.

He has published papers in Nature, PNAS, and Nature Climate Change, as well as many other journals, and has provided commentary for The New York Times, CNN, The BBC, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Guardian, ABC News San Francisco and CBS News San Francisco among other places.

See full CV here.

Contact: Patrick at thebrakthrough.org