Dr. Kate Marvel

Kate Marvel is a senior climate scientist at Project Drawdown, the world’s leading resource for climate solutions. Dr. Marvel spent seven years as a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University; before that she held positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Stanford University. A former cosmologist, Dr. Marvel received a PhD in theoretical physics from Cambridge University where she was a Gates Scholar.  She serves on the chapter leadership team of the US Fifth National Climate Assessment, has given a TED talk, appeared on Meet the Press and The Ezra Klein Show, and testified before the US Congress. She’s written for Scientific American, Nautilus Magazine, and the On Being Project. Dr. Marvel’s book Human Nature will be published by Ecco Press in 2023.Prior to Columbia University, Dr. Marvel worked at Stanford University, the Carnegie Institution, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her work has identified human influences on present-day cloud cover, rainfall patterns, and drought risk. She is also interested in future climate changes, particularly climate feedback processes and the planet’s sensitivity to increased carbon dioxide. Dr. Marvel’s research centers on climate modeling to better predict how much the Earth’s temperature will rise in the future.