Bio: Zachary Labe ’15 is a climate scientist at Climate Central. His research interests explore the intersection of climate risk, climate impacts, future scenarios, extreme events, early warning predictions, and data science methods like AI/ML. In addition to this work, Labe is passionate about improving science communication through accessible data visualizations.
Prior to his time at Climate Central, Labe was a research physical scientist at NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He earned my Ph.D. in 2020 from the Department of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine, where he explored the links between Arctic climate change – particularly sea ice loss – and its influence on the large-scale atmospheric circulation and extreme weather. After his Ph.D., Labe completed postdocs at Colorado State University’s Department of Atmospheric Science and later at Princeton University’s Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program. He first got into climate science through my B.Sc. in atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, where he was president of the American Meteorological Society Chapter.