Heidi Cullen is interim CEO and lead correspondent for Climate Central

Climate Central

Climate Central is a nonprofit news and research organization that analyzes and reports on climate science. Composed of scientists and science journalists, the organization conducts scientific research on climate change and energy issues, and produces multimedia content that is distributed via...

. Prior to that, she was the climate expert and correspondent for The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel is a US cable and satellite television network since May 2, 1982, that broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news, along with entertainment programming related to weather 24 hours a day...

 where she helped start Forecast Earth

Forecast Earth

Forecast Earth is the name for The Weather Channel's environmental initiatives. It also was the name of an environment news program that ran on TWC from 2006 to 2008.-History of the brand:The Forecast Earth brand was introduced in 2003 for special series...

, the first weekly program on climate change and the environment. Before joining The Weather Channel she worked as a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research

National Center for Atmospheric Research

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has multiple facilities, including the I. M. Pei-designed Mesa Laboratory headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. NCAR is managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and sponsored by the National Science Foundation...

 in Boulder, Colorado. She received a B.Sc. in engineering and operations research from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 and a Ph.D. in climatology

Climatology

Climatology is the study of climate, scientifically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of time, and is a branch of the atmospheric sciences...

 and ocean-atmosphere dynamics from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

The Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory is a research unit of Columbia University located on a campus in Palisades, N.Y., north of Manhattan on the Hudson River.- History :...

. She was awarded the 2008 National Conservation Achievement Award for science by the National Wildlife Federation

National Wildlife Federation

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. The Weather of the Future

The Weather of the Future

The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes From a Climate-Changed Planet is a 2010 book by climatologist Heidi Cullen. Cullen takes as her starting point the "clear and present dangers" posed by the greenhouse gases which result from the burning fossil fuels. She...

is a book by Cullen, published in 2010.

Selected publications

External links

• "Warming is Real. Now What?" Michiko Kakutani
  Michiko Kakutani
  is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for The New York Times and is considered by many to be a leading literary critic in the United States.-Life and career:...
  
  , The New York Times
  The New York Times
  The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
  
  , 2 August 2010