Roger Pulwarty

Roger S. Pulwarty is a scientist from Trinidad and Tobago and contributed to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).  Roger is the Senior Scientist in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Physical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. He was previously the Senior Science Advisor for Climate, and the Director of the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) in the NOAA Climate Program Office. His over one hundred articles, book chapters, and technical reports, focus on climate science, risk management and information services in the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean. Roger has designed and led widely-recognized programs dealing with climate science and services, including the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments, NIDIS, the GEF Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change project in the Caribbean, and the InterAmerican Institute Collaborative Research Network on Eastern Pacific Boundary Currents. Roger is a lead author on the UNDRR Global Assessment Reports, the IPCC Special Reports on Water Resources and on Extremes, and convening lead author on the IPCC Working Group II Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, and the US National Climate Assessment. Full bio available here. Roger is a member of GEO DRR Working Group, supporting subgroup 3.