Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources
Director, Collaborative for Intersectoral Modeling of the Earth System (CLIMES)
UW Derecho Professor
Crane Hall, Rm 151 | (307) 766-5197 | melissa.bukovsky@uwyo.edu
PhD Meteorology, University of Oklahoma (2009)
Ms Meteorology, University of Oklahoma (2004)
BS Meteorology, Northern Illinois University (2002)
AS, College of DuPage (2000)
Melissa Bukovsky joined the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources in August 2023. She came to the University of Wyoming from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, where she had worked as a research scientist since 2009. Melissa is the head of a new University of Wyoming laboratory, CLIMES, which focuses on regional modeling of Earth’s systems. CLIMES aims to provide quantitative, computationally derived scenarios of regionally relevant socio-environmental futures for Wyoming and beyond.
Melissa’s research focuses on regional Earth systems modeling, nonstationarity in various regions and components of the Earth system, and the potential impacts of variability and change in the Earth system on human and natural systems. Her specialty is projecting how the Earth system may evolve, using that information to inform decision-making in the face of significant uncertainty, understanding those uncertainties, and collaborating across disciplines to model the potential impacts of variability and change in the Earth system from multiple perspectives.
Melissa also actively works to advance and coordinate the science and application of regional Earth systems modeling internationally. She has contributed both simulations and expertise to major global assessments, helping to enhance scientific understanding of regional Earth systems processes. She strongly advocates for open-source, collaborative science and data production, ensuring her and the community’s modeling efforts are widely accessible and applicable across a broad range of applications.
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