Dr. Heidi Cullen
Climate Expert - The Weather Channel
Dr. Heidi Cullen is a climate expert at The Weather Channel and has the key responsibility of adding explanation, depth, and perspective to climate stories for The Weather Channel network and related platforms. Dr. Cullen, a scientist of international standing in climate research, is helping to build the climate program at The Weather Channel, and strengthen its relationships within the scientific community. Last summer she appeared on-the-air in special reports and documentaries such as Extreme Weather Theories, which distinguished between fact and fiction ideas like those dramatized in the The Day After Tomorrow motion picture. Most recently, she contributed to the production of Alaska Meltdown, a documentary on The Weather Channel that investigates the effects of global warming already in evidence in Alaska and the global implications of it for the future.
Dr. Cullen has received national press coverage in USA Today, Ad Age, and Entertainment Weekly; and has appeared as a guest expert on CNN Headline News' Down To Earth environmental program. She has also made guest appearances on local NPR stations in Berkeley, CA, and Anchorage, AS.
Before joining The Weather Channel, Dr. Cullen was a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO. She also conducted research in the U.S. Southwest and the Middle East (Syria and Turkey), publishing on domestic and international climate topics. She was recently selected to join the World Climate Research Program's Climate Variability (CLIVAR) Scientific Steering Group, an international project aimed at identifying, understanding, and predicting types of variability within the Earth's complex climate system.
Dr. Cullen received a B.A. from Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA and then went on to obtain a B.S. in Engineering/Operations Research from Columbia University in NYC. As an undergraduate, Dr. Cullen was part of a 3-2 Program in which students pursue both a liberal arts degree and an engineering degree. Dr. Cullen returned to Columbia and received a Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. Her dissertation focused on the North Atlantic Oscillation, an important climate influence.
As a post-doc, she received a NOAA Climate & Global Change Fellowship and spent two years working at the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI) where she collaborated with scientists from Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
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