Robert E. Nicholas

Director, Penn State Center for Climate Risk Management (CLIMA)
Assistant Director & Associate Research Professor, Earth & Environmental Systems Institute (EESI)
Associate Research Professor, Department of Meteorology & Atmospheric Science
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University

I’m an atmospheric scientist with research interests in the areas of climate dynamics, empirical downscaling, uncertainty quantification, and Earth system modeling. My current work focuses on the development of decision-relevant climate data products, with a particular emphasis on agricultural, water resources, forestry, flood resilience, and biodiversity management applications. Much of this work takes place in the context of transdisciplinary collaborations with engineers, statisticians, philosophers, agricultural scientists, geographers, economists, and other Earth system scientists, as well as local stakeholders and decision-makers.

Looking for a new opportunity within an innovative, fun, and highly-collaborative, multi-disciplinary research team? I’m currently hiring for several new positions:

• Non-Tenure Line Research Faculty with Project Management Responsibilities
• Postdoctoral Scholar, Development of Weather Generators for Climate Change Applications
• Scientific Programmer for Interdisciplinary Climate Research
• Non-Tenure Line Researcher and Outreach Specialist for Climate Change Adaptation and Decision Support
• Non-Tenure Line Climate Research Position
• Postdoctoral Scholar, Regional Climate Modeling and Empirical Downscaling
• Postdoctoral Scholar, Transdisciplinary Climate Research