Emma Scott

Emma Scott joined NCICS as a Climate Data Analyst in October of 2019. She works with extreme precipitation and drought research, including an investigation of linkages between teleconnection patterns and rapidly changing drought conditions. She is also focused on the heightened impacts of compound and closely occurring extreme events. Much of this research utilizes the United States Climate Reference Network, for which she is part of the science team. Her past work for the institute has included intersatellite calibration of the High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder brightness temperature measurements, as well as generation of cloud-based production pipelines to improve data access. As part of the outreach team, she enjoys sharing her knowledge with the public through events and class sessions.

Ms. Scott earned her undergraduate degree in Meteorology at North Carolina State University. During her time at NC State, she completed internships with the North Carolina State Climate Office and a research group studying cloud microphysics within east coast snowstorms. Additionally, she completed an internship at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information as a NOAA Hollings Scholar in which she was responsible for calculating precipitation extremes. She received her Master’s in Atmospheric Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she studied the impact of different cloud microphysics parameterizations on a large-eddy-simulating model of Southern Ocean clouds.