Inez Yau-Sheung Fung 馮又嫦 Election Year 2010 Dept. of Earth & Planetary Science and
Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
307 McCone Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Mail Code 4767
Berkeley, CA 94720-4767, U.S.A. Tel: (510) 642 3993
Current Positions
Professor Emerita, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Science, and Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management; University of California, Berkeley
Education
S.B. (Applied Mathematics) (1971), Sc.D. (Meteorology) (1977), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professional Experience
Resident Research Associate (at Goddard Space Flight Center), National Academy of Sciences/NRC (1977-79)
Associate Research Scientist (resident at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies) (1979-86), Adjunct Associate Research Scientist (1986-93), Adjunct Senior Scientist (1993-2001), Lamont-Doherty Observatory of Columbia University
Physical Scientist, NASA GSFC, Institute for Space Studies, (on leave of absence 1993-98) (1986-98)
Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Washington (1988, Spring)
Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Columbia University (1989-93)
Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Canada (1993-98)
Specialties
Atmospheric Science, Climate Change, Global Carbon Cycle
Awards and Honors
2024: Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lecture, UC Berkeley
2022: Walter Munk Memorial Lecture, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
2019: Fellows Medal, California Academy of Sciences
2019: Elected Foreign Member, The Royal Society, London
2019: Michio Yanai Distinguished Lecture, UCLA.
2019: Inez Fung Symposium at the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society
2019: Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, American Meteorological Society
2018: John Tyndall Lecture on History of Evironmental Change, Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union
2018: C-G Rossby Research Medal, American Meteorological Society
2017: Elected Member, California Academy of Sciences
2014: Elected Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
2014: Elected Member, American Philosophical Society
2009: Charney Lecture, American Geophysical Union Spring meeting, Toronto
2009: Outstanding Mentor Award, Department of Energy
2009: Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Award, presented by the UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly
2007: Contributor to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the United National Environmental Programme (UNEP) Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC)
2007: National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate System Model Distinguished Achievement Award
2006: Award for the Environment, World Technology Network
2005: Scientific American 50
2004: Roger Revelle Medal, American Geophysical Union
2002: Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecturer in Global Change Science, MIT
2001: Elected Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
1997-2002: Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor for the Physical Sciences, University of California Berkeley
1996: Fellow, American Geophysical Union
1994: Fellow, American Meteorological Society
1992-1997: NASA Goddard Senior Fellow
1991: NOAA Distinguished Authorship Award
1990, 1996: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Most Valuable Paper Award
1989: NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
1987, 1993: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Peer Award
1977: C.G. Rossby Award for the outstanding thesis of the year, Department of Meteorology, MIT