Background
Inez Fung was born and grew up in Hong Kong, she graduated from King"s College, Hong Kong, in 1967.
professor editor of the Journal of Climate
Inez Fung was born and grew up in Hong Kong, she graduated from King"s College, Hong Kong, in 1967.
She received her Doctor of Science. in 1977, becoming only the second woman to graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a doctorate degree in Meteorology.
She is also the co-director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment. After graduating, she traveled to the United States and enrolled in Utica College in New New York Fung was promoted as the Adjunct Senior Scientis at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Columbia and was joined the University of Victoria in Canada, working as a professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, in 1993.
In 1998, Fung left the University of Victoria, Columbia and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goodard Center, joining the University of California, Berkeley in 1998.
Since then she has gone on to work extensively on climate modeling, biogeochemical cycles, and climate change. During the last decade, she was a contributing author to both the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third and Fourth Assessment reports.
In 2006, she joined with 17 other climate scientists to file an amicus curiae brief in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency to support the need for the United States. Environmental Protection Agency (Environmental Protection Agency) to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.
National Academy of Sciences]
She is member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow in both the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. In 1986 she was also hired as a Physical Scientist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center"s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the same year she served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Climate Research Committee until 1989.