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Nov 13, 2020
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Inez Fung

Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of California, Berkeley

Inez Fung, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of California, Berkeley, has been studying climate change for close to 40 years. She is a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Gore. More recently, she is the US lead of the National Academy of Sciences/Royal Society 2014 publication “Climate Change: Evidence and Causes” and its 2020 update. Fung received her S.B. in Applied Mathematics and her Sc.D. in Meteorology from MIT. She is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, Academia Sinica (Taiwan), as well as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, London. Fung is a subject in a biography series for middle-school-aged readers, “Women’s Adventures in Science”, launched by the National Academy of Sciences. The title of her biography is “Forecast Earth”. She was also featured in a short YouTube video “What could happen in a world that’s 4 degrees warmer?” sponsored by WIRED magazine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Kt_oU9iss).

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