Dr. Xubin Zeng is the Agnese N. Haury Chair in Environment, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, and Director of the Climate Dynamics and Hydrometeorolgy Collaborative at the University of Arizona. He is an affiliated professor of the Applied Mathematics, Global Change, and Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis Interdisciplinary Programs. He also directs the Land-Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction (LAOI) Group.
Through over 260 peer-reviewed papers, Dr. Zeng's research has focused on land-atmosphere-ocean interface processes, weather and climate modeling, hydrometeorology, remote sensing, nonlinear dynamics, and big data analytics.
Dr. Zeng is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and served on its Council and Executive Committee. He received the AMS Charles Franklin Brooks Award for Outstanding Service to the Society. He is also a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He received the Special Creativity Award from the National Science Foundation. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Dr. Zeng has held numerous leadership positions at national and international organizations. At present, he co-chairs the Scientific Steering Group of Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) - a core project of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP), and chairs the Interim Scientific Steering Committee of Global Precipitation Experiment (GPEX) - a new WCRP Lighthouse Activity. He chairs the Advisory Committee of DOE PNNL Earth & Biological Sciences Directorate. He also serves on the NASA Earth Science Decadal Survey Midterm Assessment Committee and NOAA Committee to prepare the Report on Commercial Data Buy.
Education
Ph.D., Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, 1992
M.S., Chinese Academy of Sciences, Meteorology, 1987
B.S., Nanjing University, Atmospheric Physics, 1984
Employment
2018-2019: Co-Chair, University Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee
2018-2019: Member, University President’s Cabinet
2014-present: Agnese N. Haury Chair in Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2008-present: Founding Director, Climate Dynamics and Hydrometeorology Collaborative
(CDHC) with 45 faculty members from five colleges, University of Arizona
1994-present: Professor (2004-present), Associate Professor (2000-2004), and Research Assistant
Professor (1994-2000), UA Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences
1998-present: Affiliated professor, UA Interdisciplinary Programs: Global Change (1998-present),
Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis Interdisciplinary Program (2005-present),
Applied Mathematics (2019-present).
1988-1994: UCAR Climate System Modeling Project Postdoctoral Associate (1992-1994),
Graduate Research Assistant (1988-1992), Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Awards
2023: NASA’s Group Achievement Award
2022-2024: Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
2022: Team member, $60K Prize for Third Place Award in the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Snowcast Showdown (over western U.S.) Competition
2021: Fellow, American Geophysical Union
2021: Charles Franklin Brooks Award, American Meteorological Society for Service to
the Society
2018: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2018: Outstanding Alum, Colorado State University Department of Atmospheric Science
2015-2016: Fellow, UA Academic Leadership Institute
2014: Agnese N. Haury Chair, University of Arizona
2014: Outstanding Faculty Award, UA Asian American Faculty, Staff & Alumni Association
2014: Special Creativity Award, National Science Foundation
2012-2014: Honorary Commander, 25th Operational Weather Squadron, Davis-Monthan Air
Force Base, Tucson
2011: Fellow, American Meteorological Society
2011: Galileo Circle Fellow, UA College of Science
2008: Corresponding Member, China Science Center of the International Eurasian Academy
of Sciences
2004: Visiting Fellow, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF),
Reading, United Kingdom, July 2004
1999 AMS Editor's Award
1992-1994: Postdoctoral Associate, UCAR Climate System Modeling Project (CSMP)