Dr. L. Ruby Leung is a Battelle Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Her research broadly cuts across multiple areas in modeling and analysis of climate and the hydrological cycle including land-atmosphere interactions, orographic processes, monsoon climate, climate extremes, land surface processes, and aerosol-cloud interactions. Her research on climate change impacts has been featured in Science, Popular Science, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, and many major newspapers.
Dr. Leung is the Chief Scientist of Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) supported by U.S. Department of Energy, a major effort to develop state-of-the-art capabilities for modeling human-Earth system processes on DOE’s next generation high performance computers. She has organized key workshops sponsored by DOE, NSF, NOAA, and NASA, and served on advisory panels and NRC committee that define future priorities in climate modeling, hydroclimate, and water cycle research. She is an editor of the American Geophysical Union Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres and American Meteorological Society Journal of Hydrometeorology. Dr. Leung is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and Washington State Academy of Sciences. She is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and American Geophysical Union (AGU). She is the recipient of the AGU Global Environmental Change Bert Bolin Award and Lecture in 2019 and the AGU Atmospheric Science Jacob Bjerknes Lecture in 2020. Dr. Leung has published over 350 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Lai-Yung Ruby Leung is a Battelle researcher in the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, also a scientist of National Center for Atmospheric Research. She is the chief scientist of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) supported by the US Department of Energy. Her research is widely involved in multiple fields of climate and hydrological cycle modeling and analysis, including land-atmosphere interactions, terrain processes, monsoon climate, extreme climate, land surface process and aerosol-cloud interaction. Her research on climate change has been published in "Science", "Volkswagen", "Wall Street Journal", US National Public Radio Station and many major newspapers. She is a member of the National Engineering Society, a member of the Washington University of Science, a member of the US Science Promotion Association, a member of the American Meteorological Society, a member of the American Geophysical Federation.