Dr. James L. Kinter III is Director of the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) where he oversees basic and applied climate research conducted by the Center. Dr. Kinter’s research includes studies of climate predictability on sub-seasonal and longer time scales, focusing on phenomena such as monsoons, El Niño and the Southern Oscillation, and modes of extratropical variability. Dr. Kinter is a Professor in the department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences of the College of Science. He teaches courses on climate change and numerical prediction at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and advises M.S. and Ph.D. students. After earning his doctorate in geophysical fluid dynamics at Princeton University in 1984, Dr. Kinter served as a National Research Council Associate at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and as a faculty member of the University of Maryland prior to helping to create COLA. Dr. Kinter has served on many national review and advisory panels for both scientific research programs and supercomputing programs for computational climate modeling.
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