Kate Ricke is an interdisciplinary climate scientist who combines methods from the physical climate sciences, including Earth System Modeling and analysis of environmental observations, with methods from decision theory and risk analysis. My work focuses on a range of climate policy topics—including climate geoengineering and international human migration pressures of climate change—with a consistent theme of characterization of the strategic implications of regionally heterogeneous climate outcomes and quantification of decision-relevant uncertainties.
I am an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego (UCSD), in a 50-50 split position between the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO). I am a founding faculty member of the Environment & Policy Group. I am a core faculty affiliate of Scripps’ Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, a faculty affiliate of the UCSD Deep Decarbonization Initiative and an advisory board member for the UCSD Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.
Current
Prior
Apr 2022 — Jessica Wan wins NDSEG fellowship
Nov 2021 — Kate talks geoengineering with Wired
Sept 2021 — Kate Ricke wins NCAR Early Career Faculty Innovator award
Mar 2021 — National Academies report Reflecting Sunlight published
Dec 2020 — Pascal Polonik wins AGU OSPA Award for his Fall Meeting talk
Apr 2019 — Kate Ricke wins Andrew Carnegie Fellowship