Judith A. Curry is Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include remote sensing, climate of the polar regions, atmospheric modeling, and air/sea interactions. She participates in the World Meteorological Organization’s World Climate Research Program, was a member of the Science Steering Group of the Arctic Climate System (ACSYS) Program, and chairs the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud System Studies Working Group on Polar Clouds. She co-chaired the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) program’s Science Working Group. Dr. Curry previously served on two NRC Committees, the Polar Research Board’s Committee to Review NASA’s Polar Geophysical Data Sets and BASC’s Panel on Coastal Meteorology, and is currently a member of the Climate Research Committee. She holds a Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago.