Alexander B. Thames, PhD#
I am a geoscientist and climate scientist with doctoral experience in developing tools and methodologies to support assessments of deep uncertainty, particularly for geophysical models and climate change impact analyses on natural-human systems. Expertise in large ensemble exploratory modeling in the context of understanding novel system interactions, informing decision-making and risk, high-performance computing, and experimental atmospheric chemistry and physics.
Interests#
Exploratory Modeling of Earth/Natural-Human Systems
Climate Change and its Impacts, especially resulting from aerosols like refractory black carbon (rBC)
Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty
Risk, especially from Natural Catastrophes and Hazards
Numerical and Statistical Modeling, Physics-Based Simulation
Data Science
Education#
PhD, Geosciences with Climate Science Dual-Title. 2026. The Pennsylvania State University.
BSc, Physics with Mathematics minor. 2015. The Pennsylvania State University.