David W Fahey

Director, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory

Office of the Director

NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory
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Boulder, CO 80305 USA

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Affiliation

NOAA

Dr. David W. Fahey is the Director of the Chemical Sciences Laboratory in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado, USA. He joined the Laboratory after receiving advanced degrees in physics. The Laboratory's mission is to advance scientific understanding of climate change, air quality and stratospheric ozone through research on the chemical and physical processes that affect Earth’s atmospheric composition. He serves the Montreal Protocol as a Co-Chair of its Scientific Assessment Panel which produces the quadrennial assessments of stratospheric ozone depletion. He has authored other major assessments on the topics of climate change, black carbon and aviation to address their roles in the climate system and was a lead author of the 2017 Climate Science Special Report of the National Climate Assessment. He has received distinctions from the U. S. Department of Commerce, the Environmental Protection Agency, the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the United Nations Environment Program.

Education

PhD - University of Missouri-Rolla
BA - University of Wisconsin-Madison

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