Scott A. Mandia is professor of Earth and space sciences and assistant chair of the Physical Sciences Department at

Suffolk County Community College Suffolk County Community College (SCCC) is a public community college in Selden, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system and is funded in part by Suffolk County, New York. Suffolk County Community College was ...

Long Island Long Island is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York (state), New York state, extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It constitutes a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land are ...

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, USA. He has been teaching introductory meteorology and

climatology Climatology (from Greek , ''klima'', "slope"; and , '' -logia'') or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. Climate concerns the atmospher ...

courses for 28 years. In 1997, he won the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Education

Mandia received his M.S. –

Meteorology Meteorology is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and short-term atmospheric phenomena (i.e. weather), with a focus on weather forecasting. It has applications in the military, aviation, energy production, transport, agricultur ...

from the

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsyl ...

in 1990 and his B.S. – Meteorology from

University of Lowell The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell and UML) is a Public university, public research university in Lowell, Massachusetts, with a satellite campus in Haverhill, Massachusetts. It is the northernmost member of the University of M ...

in 1987.

Career

Climate science communication

Weblog

Mandia is very active in advocacy against

climate change denial Climate change denial (also global warming denial) is a form of science denial characterized by rejecting, refusing to acknowledge, disputing, or fighting the scientific consensus on climate change. Those promoting denial commonly use rhetor ...

. To this end, he maintains a website titled "Global Warming: Man or Myth?", included at the "Start Here" tab of

RealClimate ''RealClimate'' is a commentary site (blog) on climatology. The site's contributors include climate scientists whose goal is to provide a response to developing stories and a context they feel is sometimes missing in mainstream commentary o ...

.org. Mandia also writes about climate change and politics at his blog.

Climate Science Rapid Response Team matchmaker service

Mandia is a co-founder and matchmaker of the Climate Science Rapid Response Team, matching media and government individuals who have climate questions, to working climate scientists with the expertise to answer them.

Meteorology

In addition to climate change, Mandia has written on the subject of Long Island hurricanes. especially the

New England Hurricane of 1938 The 1938 New England Hurricane (also referred to as the Great Long Island - New England Hurricane and the Long Island Express) was one of the deadliest and most destructive tropical cyclones to strike the United States. The storm formed near th ...

, known locally as the "Long Island Express" and prognostication on the future vulnerability of Long Island to hurricanes.

Learning modules for college students

Mandia has also published a series of weather and climate learning modules titled ''Investigations in Atmospheric Sciences'' that are geared toward non-science major college students.

References

External links

Scott Mandia's blog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mandia, Scott Living people University of Massachusetts Lowell alumni Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences alumni Suffolk County Community College faculty Year of birth missing (living people)