Dr. Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux is a Professor of Climatology in the Department of Geography at the University of Vermont. She uses a variety of mixed methods from remotely sensed data to statistics and historical content analysis, to explore the influence of atmospheric processes on fluvial processes and vegetated landscapes. Her work spans a number of climate hazards and severe weather, with a special focus on flooding and droughts. As the State Climatologist for Vermont, she engages directly with community groups, K-12 schools, State legislators, Federal and State agencies, and national climate organizations. She is the President of the American Association of State Climatologists and was inducted as a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in January 2020.
She is the lead editor of ‘Historical climate variability and impacts in North America’, the first monograph to deal with the use of documentary and other ancillary records for analyzing climate variability and change.
Nationally, she is the lead author for the Northeast Chapter of the Fourth National Climate Assessment of the US Global Change Research Program. She has served on the NOAA Science Advisory Board Climate Working Group helping to guide climate research across the US. Statewide, she is the Co-Chair of the State’s Drought Task Force and worked closely with the Vermont Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security on the climatology related sections of the FEMA-mandated Vermont State Hazard Mitigation Plan. In 2014, she was a Scholar-in-Residence for the Sustainability Graduate Institute at Goddard College, and their Commencement Speaker in Spring 2015. Also, in 2015, Dr. Dupigny-Giroux was elected a Fellow of the Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering in recognition of her academic and outreach contributions to the state.
Additional Resources:
- https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AGUFMED41A0555D/abstract
- https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/applied-climatology/107194/
- https://statesummaries.ncics.org/chapter/vt/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley-Ann_L._Dupigny-Giroux
- https://www.uvm.edu/cas/geography/profiles/lesley-ann-dupigny-giroux
- https://futurumcareers.com/in-the-know-building-a-climate-literate-society