Marco Tedesco
Lecturer, Sustainability Science; Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Adjunct Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), Columbia Business School Climate Resident Scientist
Dr. Marco Tedesco is a Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and Adjunct Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS). He took his ME and PhD in Italy, then moved to NASA, where he spent five years as a postdoc and research scientist. In 2009, he moved to the City College of New York as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012. While at CCNY, he served as a Program Officer at the Polar Program of the National Science Foundation for 2 1/2 years.
In January 2016, he accepted his current position at Columbia University. Dr. Tedesco’s research interests concern remote sensing of the cryosphere, regional climate modeling of the polar regions, sea level rise, economic and financial implications of climate change and high-latitude fieldwork.