Stephen E. Zebiak, Ex Officio
Director General, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI)
Director, Prediction Research, IRI
Senior Research Scientist, Modeling, Prediction, Probability, (IRI)
steve@iri.columbia.edu
Zebiak has worked in the area of ocean-atmosphere interaction and climate variability since completing his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984. He and Mark Cane were the authors of the first dynamical model used to predict El Niño successfully. He has served on numerous advisory committees, including those for the US TOGA Program, the Atlantic Climate Change Program, the Pan American Climate Studies Program, the AMS Committee on Climate Variations, and the Center for the Study of Science and Religion (CSSR).
Zebiak is currently chair of the International CLIVAR Working Group on Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction, co-chair of the US CLIVAR Seasonal-to-Interannual Modeling and Prediction Panel and member of the advisory board of the Canadian CLIVAR Research Network. He is a member of the APEC Climate Network (APCN) Steering Committee, and is an associate editor of the Journal of Climate.