Dr. Angeline Pendergrass

Biography

Angeline Pendergrass is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University, having joined in 2020. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Meteorology and Mathematics/Physics from the University of Miami in 2006, followed by a Master of Science and PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington in 2009 and 2013, respectively. She completed postdoctoral research at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and had a visiting fellowship at the University of Colorado's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). Pendergrass also spent a year as a visiting scientist at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Her research primarily focuses on the response of extreme precipitation to climate variability and change, encompassing comprehensive studies of precipitation characteristics at planetary scales. She addresses fundamental questions regarding precipitation change and its role in climate systems, striving to enhance the accuracy of models that simulate the hydrologic cycle and the implications of such changes on society.

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