Gabriel A VecchiGabriel Vecchi is Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. Since July 2021 he has been Director of the High Meadows Environmental Institute. He is also the Deputy Director of th Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System (CIMES), a joint institute between Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and has received several awards including the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the AMS’s Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, and the Ascent Award from the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union. His research focuses on understanding short- and long-term changes to the oceans and atmosphere, including the monsoons, El Niño, and the impact of climate on tropical cyclones, weather extremes, and global patterns of rainfall and drought. Prior to coming to Princeton University in 2017, he was a Research Oceanographer and the Head of the Climate Variations and Predictability Group at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), where he was from 2003. Read More Read Less