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Geeta Persad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research centers on the innovative application of numerical global climate modeling to understand the behavior and societal impacts of the physical climate system. Her core work focuses on the role of particle aerosol emissions as a primary radiative forcing that offsets greenhouse gases from the industrial era, driving inter-regional differences in the magnitude and rate of climate change and the emergence of heat and hydroclimate extremes. Persad's research also applies climate physics to modeling questions that interface with hydrology, aiming to understand climate shifts that are likely to stress water management in the Central and Western United States. The overarching goal of her lab's work is to improve societal outcomes by understanding climatic changes that impact human systems and decision-making processes.
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