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Elizabeth Barnes

Biography

Elizabeth Barnes is an American researcher. There are two notable academics with this name: one is a climate scientist and the other is a philosopher.

Elizabeth A. Barnes, Climate Scientist

Elizabeth A. Barnes is a climate scientist known for her work on understanding the variability of Earth's short- and long-term climate using statistical methods. Her research integrates physics and computer science approaches. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University.

Early Life and Education

Elizabeth A. Barnes grew up in Minnesota. She obtained two bachelor's degrees, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota in mathematics and physics. She then earned a PhD in Atmospheric Science from the University of Washington, specialising in eddy mean flow interactions of the midlatitude jet stream.

After her graduate studies, she took up a post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University, where she led research on anthropogenic climate change, Arctic amplification, changes to Northern Hemisphere circulation, and extreme events.

Career

In 2013, Barnes joined the faculty of the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. She has led or co-authored over 115 scholarly journal articles, particularly in the field of climate science. She was an early adopter of machine-learning methods for understanding climate variability and change.

Her research lab has made significant contributions to various topics, including explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for earth science, subseasonal-to-decadal predictability, climate intervention, climate change and sustainability, large-scale atmospheric dynamics, and causal discovery.

Awards and Honours

2021 Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union
2021 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
2021 Faculty Excellence Award, College of Engineering, Colorado State University
2020 Turco Lectureship, American Geophysical Union
2020 Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, American Meteorological Society
2018 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
2016 George T. Abell Outstanding Early-Career Faculty Award
2016 Outstanding Professor of the Year, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
2014 James R. Holton Junior Scientist Award, American Geophysical Union

Elizabeth Barnes, Philosopher

Elizabeth Barnes is an American philosopher specialising in feminist philosophy, metaphysics, social philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor of philosophy at the Corcoran Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia.

Early Life and Education

This Elizabeth Barnes was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. She obtained a bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Davidson College and a master's degree and PhD from the University of St Andrews, where she studied under Katherine Hawley and Daniel Nolan.

Career

After graduating from St Andrews, Barnes held positions in the philosophy department at the University of Leeds from 2006 before joining the faculty at the University of Virginia in 2014. In 2012, she became the editor-in-chief of the journal Philosophy Compass.

Barnes has published across various fields of philosophy and edited a volume titled "Current Controversies in Metaphysics" in 2015. In 2016, her monograph "The Minority Body" was published, in which she challenges the view of disability in analytic philosophy, arguing that it is primarily a social phenomenon.

Selected Publications

(2023) Health Problems: Philosophical Puzzles About the Nature of Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2016) The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2015, as editor) Current Controversies in Metaphysics. London: Routledge.
(2014) "Going Beyond the Fundamental: Feminism in Contemporary Metaphysics", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 114 (3), pp. 335–51.
(2014) "Valuing Disability, Causing Disability", Ethics 125 (1), pp. 88–113.
(2014) "Fundamental Indeterminacy", Analytic Philosophy 55 (4), pp. 339–62.
(2013) "Metaphysically Indeterminate Existence", Philosophical Studies 166, pp. 495–510.
(2012) "Emergence and Fundamentality", Mind 121 (484), pp. 873–901.
(2011) "Back to the Open Future". Philosophical Perspectives: Metaphysics (25), pp. 1–26. (with Ross Cameron)
(2011) "A Theory of Metaphysical Indeterminacy", Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (6), pp. 103–48. (with JRG Williams)

Other Notable People with the Same Name

Another Elizabeth (Beth) Barnes is a researcher at the Alignment Research Center and a Member of Technical Staff at METR (formerly ARC Evals). She has also worked as a Machine Learning Engineer and an Assistant Director at the Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley.

Elizabeth Barnes

Overview

There are two notable researchers named Elizabeth Barnes: one is an American climate scientist and the other is an American philosopher.

Elizabeth A. Barnes, Climate Scientist

Elizabeth A. Barnes is an American climate scientist known for her expertise in using statistical methods to understand the variability of Earth's short- and long-term climate. Her work integrates physics and computer science approaches. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University.

Early Life and Education

Barnes grew up in Minnesota and earned two bachelor's degrees, summa cum laude, in mathematics and physics from the University of Minnesota. She obtained her PhD in Atmospheric Science from the University of Washington in 2012, specializing in eddy mean flow interactions of the midlatitude jet stream.

Career

After her graduate studies, Barnes held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, where she led research on anthropogenic climate change, Arctic amplification, and extreme events. In 2013, she joined the faculty of the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. She has led or co-authored over 115 scholarly journal articles and is an early adopter of machine-learning methods for understanding climate variability.

Awards and Honours

2021 Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union
2021 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
2021 Faculty Excellence Award, College of Engineering, Colorado State University
2020 Turco Lectureship, American Geophysical Union
2020 Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, American Meteorological Society
2018 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
2016 George T. Abell Outstanding Early-Career Faculty Award
2016 Outstanding Professor of the Year, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
2014 James R. Holton Junior Scientist Award, American Geophysical Union

Selected Publications and Research Interests

Elizabeth A. Barnes' research interests include:

Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for earth science
Subseasonal-to-decadal predictability
Climate intervention
Climate change and sustainability
Large-scale atmospheric dynamics
Causal discovery

Elizabeth Barnes, Philosopher

Elizabeth Barnes is an American philosopher working in feminist philosophy, metaphysics, social philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor of philosophy at the Corcoran Department of Philosophy at the University of Virginia.

Early Life and Education

This Elizabeth Barnes was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and raised around Charlotte, North Carolina. She obtained a bachelor's degree from Davidson College, graduating magna cum laude, and a master's degree and PhD from the University of St Andrews, where she studied under Katherine Hawley and Daniel Nolan.

Career

After graduating from St Andrews, Barnes held posts in the philosophy department at the University of Leeds from 2006 before joining the faculty at the University of Virginia in 2014. In 2012, she became editor-in-chief of the journal Philosophy Compass. She has published across various fields of philosophy and edited a volume entitled "Current Controversies in Metaphysics" in 2015.

Selected Publications

(2023) Health Problems: Philosophical Puzzles About the Nature of Health
(2016) The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability
(2015) Current Controversies in Metaphysics (as editor)
(2014) "Going Beyond the Fundamental: Feminism in Contemporary Metaphysics"
(2014) "Valuing Disability, Causing Disability"
(2014) "Fundamental Indeterminacy"
(2013) "Metaphysically Indeterminate Existence"
(2012) "Emergence and Fundamentality"
(2011) "Back to the Open Future" (with Ross Cameron)
(2011) "A Theory of Metaphysical Indeterminacy" (with JRG Williams)
(2010) "Ontic Vagueness: A Guide for the Perplexed"

Other Notable People with the Name

Other notable people with the name Elizabeth (Beth) Barnes include:

A researcher at the Alignment Research Center and AI safety & strategy researcher in the San Francisco Bay Area
A member of the technical staff at METR (formerly ARC Evals)
A casting director
VP/CFO at Barnes Grading & Site Development
Executive Business Manager at Christensen, Inc.