CBE Fall Seminar Series Speaker: Dorothy Koch (U.S. DOE)

Bio:
Dr. Dorothy Koch is the associate director for biological and environmental research in the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. BER supports transformative science and scientific user facilities to achieve a predictive understanding of complex biological, earth, and environmental systems for energy and infrastructure security, independence, and prosperity.

From 2019 to 2023, Dr. Koch worked in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, first as the Director of the National Weather Service’s Office of Science and Technology Integration Modeling Program, responsible for the development of the NWS Forecast System and then as the Director of the Weather Program Office Director in Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.

Prior to working in the federal government, Dr. Koch was a research scientist at Columbia University working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where she established herself as an international scholar with an extensive publication record in the areas of atmospheric aerosols and chemistry, climate, and earth system sciences. She served as a lead author for the international Interagency Panel on Climate Change’s 5th Assessment Report.

She received her Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from Yale University and a B.S. in geology and geophysics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.