Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Overview

Baylor studies the physics of the ocean and how the ocean fits into the Earth's climate system, using climate models, satellites, and autonomous observations.  In 2013, Baylor joined the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University, after working in other roles at the University of Colorado, Princeton, NOAA, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and MIT. He co-led the Ocean, Cryosphere, and Sea Level Change chapter of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Physical Science Basis (WGI) Report, and he is presently co-chair of a World Climate Research Program Core Project on Earth System Modelling and Observations.

At Brown, Baylor works mainly within the Oceans, Ice, and Atmospheres Research Group.  He is the STEM faculty director of the Equitable Climate Futures initiative, an elected fellow of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), an affiliated faculty member of the Brown Theoretical Physics Center, the Brown Center for Fluid Mechanics, and the Initiative for Sustainable Energy, and he supports the SciToons and Vis-A-Thon programs. He is also an associate editor of Science Advances and a JASON.

His Ph.D. is from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography working with Joe Pedlosky (at WHOI) and Paola Rizzoli (at MIT). In his pre-oceanographic career, I trained in physics at Reed with Nick Wheeler and at Brandeis with Stanley Deser and X.-J. Wang.

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