Sol Kim
Extreme weather, attribution science, and climate justice
Research Associate in the Urban Theory Lab and Faculty Affiliate on the Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization at the University of Chicago.
Climate scientist studying our past, present, and future climates and applying research towards climate litigation and loss and damage negotiations. Research interests in weather and climate extremes (e.g. atmospheric rivers, tropical cyclones, and heatwaves), attribution science (identifying the human influence on climate and weather), and climate justice/litigation (equity and human rights under climate change).
Prior work includes independent research on heat waves through a Fulbright grant in Finland, Geoinformatics and Mission Applications Fellow for the NASA DEVELOP program at the Jet Propulsion Lab, and Climate Science Co-Lead for a European Space Agency grant on Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observations.
Holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley and a BS and BA in Society and Environment (US Policy and Management) and Geography (Earth System Sciences) also from the University of California, Berkeley.
Selected Projects
Advancing the Study of Extreme Weather Events with Data, Deep Learning Methods, and Climate Analysis
ClimateNet: an expert-labeled open dataset and deep learning architecture for enabling high-precision analyses of extreme weather
Research & Publications
Full list on Google Scholar
Teaching
Global Environmental Change CEGU 20003
Introduction to Critical Spatial Media CEGU 23517
Climate Dynamics GEOG 142
Introduction to Earth System Science GEOG 40
CV
Education
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Other Experience
Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystem Research
Contract No. 4000140389/23/I-DT-bgh · Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observations: Advancing the Study of Extreme Weather Events with Data, Deep Learning Methods, and Climate Analysis
PhD Research Assistant · Energy Exascale Earth System Model
Independent Research on Heat Waves · University of Helsinki and Finnish Meteorological Institute
Geoinformatics & Mission Applications Fellow · NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Contact
solkim1 [at] gmail [dot] com