Alex Hall
Director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Professor, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; Faculty Director, Sustainable LA Grand Challenge
Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
7955 MSB
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Alex Hall is the Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Director of the Center for Climate Science at UCLA and Faculty Director of UCLA’s Sustainable LA Grand Challenge. His research focuses on reducing climate change uncertainty at both regional and global scales.
At the regional level, he has advanced the development of downscaling techniques to better understand climate change at scales most relevant to people and ecosystems. Alex and his team at the Center for Climate Science apply these methods to create neighborhood-scale projections of future climate. They have recently completed downscaling studies for the Los Angeles region and the Sierra Nevada, with ongoing projects investigating the future of extreme precipitation and wildfire risk in California.
Alex served as a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report chapter on regional climate change and as a Contributing Author for its chapter on climate model evaluation. He was also the Coordinating Lead Author of the Los Angeles Region Report, part of California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment. His work has earned him several accolades, including the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award in 2016 and the AGU’s Future Horizons in Climate Science: Turco Lectureship in 2019.
