Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences

Baylor Fox-Kemper

Professor
Lincoln Field
Room 214
Research Interests Oceans Ice and Atmospheres, Environmental Science
Pronouns he/him

Biography

I study the physics of the ocean and its role in past, present, and future climate. I use models that range from the global scale to focused process models that apply universally.

Recent News

Communications Earth & Environment

Rewiring climate modeling with machine learning emulators

DEEPS PhD student Peter Van Kawtyk, with co-authors Professor Baylor Fox-Kemper, Assistant Professor Karianne Bergen, and Dr. Helene Hewitt (UK Met Office), have published a new perspective paper that discusses emerging research on machine learning-based "emulators" in climate science. They argue that "the next phase of climate modeling hinges on closer collaboration between simulator and emulator communities."
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IBES Fellow Baylor Fox-Kemper is the leading Brown faculty member involved in SIMCoast, an NSF initiative to track how microplastics move from land to sea and explore what this means for ecosystems, climate, and communities.
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