C. Adam Schlosser

Research Interests

My primary interests are the modeling, prediction, and risk assessment of the natural, managed, and built water-energy-land systems. In studying hydrology, weather, and climate—and their predictability and limits-to-prediction—I have worked with a wide range of numerical models, ranging from process-level to global-scale models, as well as observational data for evaluation and complementary analyses. My work includes collaboration and leadership on international experiments aimed to assess the performance of Earth-system model components and predictions. Of particular interest has been extreme events; water-resource risk assessments to inform mitigation and adaptation strategies; biodiversity; global soil sinks of hydrogen; and renewable-energy resource and intermittency assessments.

Biographic Sketch

Dr. C. Adam Schlosser is currently a Senior Research Scientist and Deputy Director at the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy (CS3). Previously, Schlosser served in leadership positions with CS3’s precursor, the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, first as Assistant Director for Science in 2008, and then as Deputy Director in 2013.

Prior to his appointment at MIT in 2003, Dr. Schlosser served as an Associate Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and as a Research Scientist at the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA). He conducted his postdoctoral work (1995-1997) as part of NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) at Princeton University. Schlosser earned a bachelor of science in physics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1989 before going on to complete his graduate studies in meteorology at the University of Maryland, with a master’s degree in 1992 and PhD in 1995.