Anthony Brazel

Since coming to ASU in 1974, Anthony Brazel has conducted regional and local scale research on climate and energy/water budgets in high mountains of Alaska, Colorado, and the Himalayas, in the Southwest desert and Mexico, and in the Phoenix metropolitan region. He served as Arizona's third state climatologist (governor-appointed over the span of 5 governors) from 1979-99, directing a Laboratory of Climatology and then Office of Climatology. This involved direct connections to researchers and agencies at the federal and state level (primarily National Climatic Data Center, National Weather Service, Phoenix, and the Western Regional Climate Center). He served as Chair of the Department of Geography 1991-97, served as manager of the Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy (EPA) in 2000-2002, and is currently in 2006-7 Acting Director of the new School of Geographical Sciences. He has served on several NSF projects with the old Center for Environmental Studies, CAP LTER, DCDC, Human Dimensions of Global Change; and is currently a member of the Board on Urban Environments of the American Meteorological Society and Scholarship Board of the International Association on Urban Climate (sponsored by the WMO) as well as part of the SMART urban heat island group on campus led by Jay Golden of GIOS.