Andrew Jones is a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Climate Readiness Institute, an organization that connects decision makers in the San Francisco Bay Area with academic experts in order to identify and address climate information and adaptation challenges. A climate scientist with interdisciplinary expertise, Andrew’s research portfolio spans economics, ecology, and policy analysis in addition to earth system modeling. He has played a major role in the Department of Energy's efforts to improve the representation of human systems within climate models. Andrew is interested in how climate data is best used for impacts and adaptation assessment, how to understand and quantify climate uncertainty, and how decisions can be made in the face of that uncertainty.