Arthur DeGaetano

Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Art DeGaetano is Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell. He is also the director of the federally-supported Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC). The NRCC`s mission is to enhance the use and dissemination of climate information to a wide variety of sectors in the Northeast. Art serves as an editor for the American Meteorological Society Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. Art has been at Cornell since 1991 serving as the center`s Research Climatologist until 2001. Prior to his arrival at Cornell Art was an Assistant Professor with the Meteorology Department at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City. He received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. focusing on Climatology and Horticulture from Rutgers University in 1989.

Courses Taught

EAS 4470: Physical Meteorology
EAS 4990: Undergraduate Research in Atmospheric Science

Contact Information

1119 Bradfield

(607) 255-0385

atd2 [at] cornell.edu

Arthur in the news

two people standing next to a weather station

News

September 3, 2024

Collaboration provides increased crop protection for New York farmers

NYSIPM’s Network for Environment and Weather Applications (NEWA), Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) at Cornell University and NYSM, operated by the University at Albany, recently combined efforts to bring real-time, localized weather data...

Alistair Hayden, right, speaks with Adam Hughes outside a building

News

July 15, 2024

Adapting California’s lessons to climate crises in NYS

Alistair Hayden brings his West Coast experience in wildfires and earthquakes to help New York communities maintain health and become more disaster resilient in the face of climate change.

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