Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux
Distinguished Professor
Department of Geography & Geosciences
College of Arts and Sciences
BIO
Dr. Dupigny-Giroux is a Professor of Climatology in the Department of Geography & Geosciences, the Vermont State Climatologist since 1997, and the immediate Past President of the American Association of State Climatologists. In 2020, she was appointed by the Vermont House of Representatives to the Vermont Climate Council as the member with expertise in climate change science.
An applied climatologist by training, Dr. Dupigny-Giroux's research interests intersect a number of interdisciplinary fields including hydroclimatic natural hazards and climate literacy, geospatial climate and land-surface processes, all within the context of our changing climate. She is an expert in floods, droughts and severe weather and the ways in which these affect the landscape and peoples of Vermont and the US Northeast.
A Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, Dr. Dupigny-Giroux is currently serving 3-year terms on three committees/boards of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, including the Board of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. She was invited by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Program (OSTP) to be a presenter on the"Climate Science Leading the Way" panel at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow, Scotland in 2021. She has contributed to all five National Climate Assessments, serving as the lead author for the Northeast Chapter of the 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment of the US Global Change Research Program, and is an author on the national Water chapter of the Fifth National Climate Assessment.
Area(s) of expertise
Climate variability and change, Climate education and literacy, Climate hazards; drought, New England and Vermont
Bio
Dr. Dupigny-Giroux is a Professor of Climatology in the Department of Geography & Geosciences, the Vermont State Climatologist since 1997, and the immediate Past President of the American Association of State Climatologists. In 2020, she was appointed by the Vermont House of Representatives to the Vermont Climate Council as the member with expertise in climate change science.
An applied climatologist by training, Dr. Dupigny-Giroux's research interests intersect a number of interdisciplinary fields including hydroclimatic natural hazards and climate literacy, geospatial climate and land-surface processes, all within the context of our changing climate. She is an expert in floods, droughts and severe weather and the ways in which these affect the landscape and peoples of Vermont and the US Northeast.
A Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, Dr. Dupigny-Giroux is currently serving 3-year terms on three committees/boards of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, including the Board of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. She was invited by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Program (OSTP) to be a presenter on the"Climate Science Leading the Way" panel at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow, Scotland in 2021. She has contributed to all five National Climate Assessments, serving as the lead author for the Northeast Chapter of the 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment of the US Global Change Research Program, and is an author on the national Water chapter of the Fifth National Climate Assessment.
Areas of Expertise
Climate variability and change, Climate education and literacy, Climate hazards; drought, New England and Vermont