Ilissa Ocko

Work

Ilissa Ocko helps EDF and the Office of Chief Scientist with anything concerning climate change. Ilissa’s main focus is helping EDF prioritize black carbon mitigation efforts based on the best available science.

Background

• Ph.D. and M.A., Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University (2013)
• B.S.E., Earth System Science and Engineering, University of Michigan — Ann Arbor (2008)

Ilissa Ocko used climate models in graduate school to explore how aerosols, such as black carbon, influenced various climate conditions over the past century. She has a certificate in environmental policy from the Woodrow Wilson School, has done scientific illustrations for groups like Climate Central and Weather Underground, and as an undergraduate she was a weather anchor on the university’s television network.

Publications

Ocko, IB, V Ramaswamy, P Ginoux, Y Ming, and LW Horowitz (2012), Sensitivity of scattering and absorbing aerosol direct radiative forcing to physical climate factors, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D20203, doi:10.1029/2012JD018019.

Ocko, IB, Hot Seat in Our Warming World, Science, 337, 6092, p. 296, doi:10.1126/science.1224878 (2012)

Bankuti, M, B Ellis, M Frades, D Kanter, J Losh, I Ocko, J Roy-Mayhew, P Shevlin, C Sierawski, A Wasserman, J Zuckerman, D Mauzerall, Complements to carbon: Opportunities for near-term action on non-CO2 climate forcers, Policy Report, Princeton University (2011)