Katharine Ricke

Kate Ricke is an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego with a joint appointment between the School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She is an interdisciplinary climate change scientist who combines quantitative modeling and large data set analysis techniques applied to social and physical systems. Her research focuses on how uncertainty and heterogeneity, both in the projected impacts of climate change and in preferences for how to address them, influence strategic incentives in climate policy problems. The ultimate goal of her research is to identify robust conclusions that can guide decision making under high uncertainty in policy and governance problems such as investments in technology and innovations to mitigate climate change and development of capacity to deal with the human migration pressures created by climate change. She has previously published on topics ranging from the regional climate effects and international relations implications of solar geoengineering; decadal climate variability’s influence on international climate agreements; and the effect of heterogeneous national climate change impacts on efficient coalition building.