Bio: Duncan Watson-Parris leads the Climate Analytics Lab (CAL) at UC San Diego, which investigates how aerosols interact with clouds and how these processes are represented in global climate models. This work combines theory, observations, and machine learning to better constrain and improve these models. CAL develops AI-based methods to integrate diverse satellite and aircraft observations and reduce uncertainty in aerosol–cloud interactions. He also led the GAIA Initiative at UCSD, and co-convened the “AI and Climate Science” discovery series focused on advancing the use of artificial intelligence for Earth and ocean science more broadly. His research is supported by an NSF CAREER award, a Google Academic Research Award, and DARPA.

This event is presented as part of the 2026 Perspectives on the Climate Change Challenge Seminar Series:

• Most Mondays, Spring Semester 2026, 2:55-4:10 p.m.
• Zoom Link TBA

This university-wide seminar series is open to the public (via Zoom), and provides important views on the critical issue of climate change, drawing from many perspectives and disciplines. Experts from Cornell University and beyond present an overview of the science of climate change and climate change models, the implications for agriculture, ecosystems, and food systems, and provide important economic, ethical, and policy insights on the issue. The seminar is being organized and sponsored by the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering and Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.