Cynthia Rosenzweig: Difference between revisions

| name = Cynthia E. Rosenzweig

| image = File:Cynthia E. Rosenzweig.jpg

| caption = Cynthia E. Rosenzweig at Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York.

| birth_date = 1958

| citizenship = American

| known_for = Helped pioneer the study of climate change and agriculture

Rosenzweig attended [[Cook College]] (at[[Rutgers University]]) earning a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in [[agricultural sciences]] in 1980. Rosenzweig's focus on agriculture began in 1969, when she and her future husband rented and operated a farm in Tuscany, Italy, picking grapes and olives and raising animals like goats, pigs, ducks, and geese.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|date=2012-12-19|title=366 days: Nature's 10|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=492|issue=7429|pages=335–343|doi=10.1038/492335a|pmid=23257862|bibcode=2012Natur.492..335.|issn=0028-0836|last1=Heuer|first1=R. D.|last2=Rosenzweig|first2=C.|last3=Steltzner|first3=A.|last4=Blanpain|first4=C.|last5=Iorns|first5=E.|last6=Wang|first6=J.|last7=Handelsman|first7=J.|last8=Gowers|first8=T.|last9=De Bernardinis|first9=B.|last10=Fouchier|first10=R.|doi-access=free}}</ref> She decided to return to university to study agriculture, earning a [[Master of Science]] degree in Soils and Crops from Rutgers University in 1983.<ref name="nasaprofile">[http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/crosenzweig.html "Cynthia Rosenzweig"] (profile), [[NASA GISS]] (last visited Aug. 15, 2012).</ref> During her Master's, she was hired by [[NASA]] [[Goddard Institute for Space Studies]] to study cropland using satellite data. She then earned her Ph.D. from the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] in Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences in 1991.<ref name="nasaprofile" />

She also currently serves as an adjunct professor at Barnard College, where she leads the Climate Impacts research group, and is also an adjunct senior research scientist at the Columbia Climate School at Columbia University.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://barnard.edu/profiles/cynthia-rosenzweig|title=Cynthia Rosenzweig {{!}} Barnard College|website=barnard.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-10-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uccrn.org/who-we-are/people/|title=Global Management Team – Urban Climate Change Research Network|website=uccrn.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-17|archive-date=2020-10-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009205555/https://uccrn.ei.columbia.edu/who-we-are/people//|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=5 Questions With … NASA Scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig |url=https://barnard.edu/news/5-questions-nasa-scientist-cynthia-rosenzweig |access-date=2023-10-10 |website=Barnard College |language=en}}</ref>

== Climate research ==

Rosenzweig has been a leader in the field of food and climate change research since the early 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=globalreach.com |first=Global Reach Internet Productions, LLC-Ames, IA- |title=2022 Rosenzweig - The World Food Prize - Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World |url=https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/2022_rosenzweig/ |access-date=2023-10-10 |website=www.worldfoodprize.org |language=en-us}}</ref> She has led large-scale interdisciplinary research studies on the impacts of climate change in both rural and urban settings.<ref name=":2" /> Her research has shaped how we understand the close relationship between food and climate change, most notably predicting the impacts of the interaction between climate and food systems. Rosenzweig's research has been used by thousands of decision-makers in more than 90 countries in their efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change.<ref>{{Cite web |last=globalreach.com |first=Global Reach Internet Productions, LLC-Ames, IA- |title=2022 Rosenzweig - The World Food Prize - Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World |url=https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/2022_rosenzweig/ |access-date=2023-10-10 |website=www.worldfoodprize.org |language=en-us}}</ref> She is also the founder of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP), a global and interdisciplinary network of over one thousand researchers studying climate and food systems modeling.<ref>{{Cite web |last=globalreach.com |first=Global Reach Internet Productions, LLC-Ames, IA- |title=2022 Rosenzweig - The World Food Prize - Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World |url=https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/2022_rosenzweig/ |access-date=2023-10-10 |website=www.worldfoodprize.org |language=en-us}}</ref>

* Rosenzweig, C., C.Z. Mutter, and E.M. Contreras (Eds.), 2021: ''Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems: Climate Change and Farming System Planning in Africa and South Asia: AgMIP Stakeholder-driven Research.'' Series on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation, Vol. 5. World Scientific, [[doi:10.1142/q0259]].

* Rosenzweig, C., M. Parry, and M. De Mel (Eds.), 2022: ''Our Warming Planet: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation'': ''Lectures in Climate Change'', Vol. 2. World Scientific, [[doi:10.1142/12312]].

* [http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/putting-puzzle-togetherST.html "Earth Science: Putting the Puzzle Together"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202040731/https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/putting-puzzle-togetherST.html |date=2020-12-02 }} (NASA profile of Rosenzweig for children)

[[Category:American women earth scientists]]

[[Category:1958 births]]