Gavin A. Schmidt is a climatologist and climate modeler at the NASA GISS. He works on the variability of the ocean circulation and climate, using general circulation models (GCMs). He has also worked on ways to reconcile paleo-data with models. He helped develop the GISS ocean and coupled GCMs to improve the representation of the present day climate, while investigating their response to climate forcing. He is co-author, with Joshua Wolfe, of Climate Change: Picturing the Science (2009), which combines images of the effects of climate change with scientific explanations. In 2011, he received the inaugural Climate Communications Prize from the American Geophysical Union for his work on communicating climate-change issues to the public. Dr. Schmidt received a BA (Hons) in Mathematics from Oxford University, a PhD in Applied Mathematics from University College London and was a NOAA Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Global Change Research. He serves on the CLIVAR/PAGES Intersection Panel and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Climate. He was cited by Scientific American as one of the 50 Research Leaders of 2004, and has worked on Education and Outreach with the American Museum of Natural History, the College de France and the New York Academy of Sciences. He has over 60 peer-reviewed publications.