Alex C Ruane
Research Physical Scientist
Alex is the co-Director of the Impacts Group at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA GISS) where he focuses on making Earth information useful for applications across a number of sectors. He is the Climate Team Leader and Science Coordinator for the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) and serves on the Steering Committee for the Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES) global research project. Alex was also a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Working Group I (Chapter 12 on climate information) and a member of the IPCC Synthesis Report Core Writing Team. He is also co-leading the NASA Integrated Modeling Virtual Institute Working Group on Earth Action and User Alignment, and is developing the Earth Information for Food (EI4Food) initiative that engages major agribusinesses around the world.