Jason Smerdon

Jason E. Smerdon is a Professor of Climate within the Columbia Climate School. He also holds appointments as Co-Senior Director for Education and Co-Director of the Master of Science in Climate program. He teaches courses on climate, environmental change and sustainable development to undergraduate and graduate students. Smerdon also lectures widely on climate change and its social dimensions. He is co-author of the textbook Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future.

Smerdon’s research focuses on climate variability and change during the past several millennia and how past climates can help us understand future climate change. He publishes widely in the scientific literature on paleoclimate reconstruction techniques, the dynamics of past climate change and variability, and on assessing climate model simulations of the past and future using paleoclimatic information. His work has been profiled broadly by US and international media.

Jason Smerdon co-leads the Environmental Sciences and Humanities Research Cluster and serves as an Executive Committee Member.