Anna Lea Albright uses models, theory, and observations to improve understanding of how clouds and rainfall change as a result of a warming planet.

Anna Lea received her AB/AM from Harvard College in 2017 in Evolutionary Biology and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Following a year of research in Harvard's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, she moved to Paris to pursue her PhD with Professor Sandrine Bony (Laboratory of Dynamic Meteorology, Paris) and Professor Bjorn Stevens (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg). Her PhD research focused on better understanding the response of trade cumulus clouds to warming. She used models of varying complexity and observations, some of which she collected herself during the EUREC4A field campaign. Anna Lea also combined her interests in art and atmospheric science to investigate the role of industrialization and air pollution in the works of J.M.W. Turner and Claude Monet.

As an Environmental Fellow, Anna Lea will work with Professor Michael Brenner in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Professor Peter Huybers in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Through these collaborations, she will create an observational benchmark data set for rainfall and explore constraints on predicted rainfall changes in climate models.

Faculty Hosts: Michael Brenner and Peter Huybers, Faculty of Arts & Sciences