Dr. Mark Cane is the Chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and the G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics.

Dr. Cane received his Ph.D. in Meteorology from MIT in 1975 and his B.A. and M.A. from Harvard University. With Lamont colleague Dr. Stephen Zebiak, he devised the first numerical model able to simulate El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a pattern of interannual climate variability centered in the tropical Pacific, but with global consequences. In 1985 this model was used to make the first physically based forecasts of El Niño. Dr. Cane has served on numerous international and national committees and authored or co-authored over 200 scientific papers. In 1992 he received the Sverdrup Gold Medal of the American Meteorological Society and in 2003 he received the Cody Award in Ocean Sciences from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the American Geophysical Union, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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