Kerry H. Cook teaches graduate (Atmospheric and Ocean Dynamics) and undergraduate (Global Warming) courses in the Department of Geological Sciences. Her research centers on predicting and understanding climate change and climate variability around the world, including Africa, South America, the central U.S., and home in Austin, TX. She and her group use numerical models of the climate system, including atmosphere, ocean, and vegetation components, along with observational analysis to improve our understanding about how features and processes at the earth's surface interact with atmospheric circulation and precipitation fields. Research group web site: https://sites.google.com/view/kerry-cook/homeDr. Cook is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and chairs the AMS Committee on Climate Variability and Change. She has served as member of the Board of Trustees of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and an editor of the Journal of Climate. Dr. Cook published a text on Climate Dynamics (2013, Princeton University Press). Dr. Cook speaks frequently to public groups on the science of climate change, combining background information and the presentation of up-to-date observations with ample opportunity for questions and discussion of the ongoing global warming.Kerry Cook came to The University of Texas at Austin in August, 2008. She began her career at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab at Princeton University, followed by 18 years as a professor at Cornell University where she taught courses in Climate Dynamics, Atmospheric Dynamics, and Atmospheric Physics and was a founder of the Science of Earth Systems major.