Lesley Ott

Lesley Ott is a climate scientist with 20 years experience studying air pollution and greenhouse gases. She currently leads the carbon group within the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA’s main center for understanding contemporary weather and climate using a family of advanced Earth system modeling tools. Her work focuses on combining satellite data and numerical models to better understand the sources and sinks of greenhouse gases and how the processes that control them may change over time. She also leads coordination of activities at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in support of the newly established U.S. GHG Center.