Gabriel Vecchi
Title
Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. Director, High Meadows Environmental Institute. Deputy Director, Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System. (Fall 2026 Sabbatical)
Position
Research Areas
University Affiliation
Research Interests
Climate science; extreme weather events; hurricanes; mechanisms of precipitation variability and change; ocean-atmosphere interaction; detection and attribution.
HMEI Affiliation
Carbon Mitigation Initiative, Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System (CIMES)
Related Media and Press Coverage
- “Humans did not cause the US cold snap” – Scientific American (Jan. 12, 2018)
- “U.S. cold snap was a freak of nature — not global warming — quick analysis finds” — Associated Press (Jan. 11, 2018)
- “Hurricane season 2017: what the hell just happened?” — Vox (Oct. 25, 2017)
- “September Is the Strongest Hurricane Month Ever Recorded—Probably“ — The Atlantic (Sept. 27, 2017)
- “The scariest thing about 2017’s hurricanes: They keep getting really strong, really fast” — The Washington Post (Sept. 19, 2017)
- “Trump says ‘we’ve had bigger storms’ when asked about Harvey, Irma and climate change” — The Washington Post (Sept. 14, 2017)
- “What 100-Year-Old Hurricanes Could Teach Us About Irma” — FiveThirtyEight (Sept. 11, 2017)
- “The science behind the U.S.’s strange hurricane ‘drought’ — and its sudden end” — The Washington Post (Sept. 7, 2017)
- “The One Number That Shows Why Climate Change Is Making Hurricane Season Worse” — Time Magazine (Sept. 7, 2017)
- “Did Climate Change Intensify Harvey’s Catastrophic Effects?” — LiveScience (Aug. 30, 2017)
- “Hurricane Harvey: Climate Change’s Staggering Human and Economic Toll on Display” — Climate Liability News (Aug. 28, 2017)
Radio and television interviews:
- Interview about Hurricane Irma (starts at 32:00) — WHYY RadioTimes (Sept. 8, 2017)
- “Are extreme hurricanes caused by climate change?” — BBC World News, Boston Calling (Sept. 1, 2017)
- “Is climate change making hurricanes worse?” — PRI’s The World (Aug. 25, 2017)