Kate Calvin

Kate Calvin is a visiting research scientist at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy's Center for Global Sustainability. She was elected co-chair of working group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the 7th assessment cycle. Prior to joining CGS, she was an earth scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI). Calvin worked on JGCRI’s Global Change Analysis Model and the Department of Energy’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model. From 2022 to 2025, she served as NASA’s chief scientist. Her research focuses on understanding interactions between energy, water, land and climate. She received her PhD in management science and engineering from Stanford University and BS degrees in computer science and mathematics from the University of Maryland.