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Suzana J. Camargo

Lecturer, M.S. in Sustainability Science; Marie Tharp Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO); Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES)

Dr. Suzana J. Camargo is the Marie Tharp Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. She has been working at Columbia University at the Lamont campus since 1999, first at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) before becoming part of the Ocean and Climate Physics Division of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in 2007. Dr. Camargo main expertise is on tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons), in particular the relationship of tropical cyclones and climate in various time-scales. She joined the Columbia University Earth Institute Faculty as an Associate Member in 2018. Dr. Camargo is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and a lecturer in the Sustainability Science program in the School of Professional Studies.

Dr. Camargo has published over 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals and her work has been highly cited. Dr. Camargo has also been an editor of Geophysical Research Letters since late 2017 and an associate editor of the Journal of Climate since 2016. Dr. Camargo has participated in many national and international committees in climate science and hurricanes.