Roger Pulwarty

Roger S. Pulwarty is the acting director and senior scientist in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Physical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Pulwarty is a weather, water, and disaster science expert with over 130 peer-reviewed publications and co-edited books. He has also helped design and lead key interdisciplinary research and applications programs, including the National Integrated Drought Information System, the NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments, and the United Nations (UN) Climate Services Information System. Pulwarty serves on UN and US scientific assessments, interagency and National Academy committees, provides Congressional testimonies, and advises local communities, state, and international bodies, including the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, the World Bank, and the Western Governors, on extreme events, water and disaster risk management. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and an Honorary Diplomate of the European Academy Water Resources Engineers and Scientists, and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. His work has been awarded by the Department of Commerce, with the U.S. Presidential Distinguished Rank Award, the Gold Medal for Applied Sciences (Government of Trinidad and Tobago), the American Geophysical Union Gilbert F. White and Science Ambassador Awards, among others. Pulwarty is professor adjunct at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the University of the West Indies, Barbados, and the co-editor of “Hurricanes: Climate and Socio-economic Impacts” (Springer, reissued 2012), “Drought and Water Crises” (CRC Press 2017), “Droughts: from Risk to Resilience” (UN Press, 2021).