Dr. Boniface Fosu joined the Department of Geosciences at Mississippi State University in January 2022, with a joint appointment at the Northern Gulf Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Climate Science at Utah State University in 2018 and proceeded to complete two postdoctoral research positions in tropical ocean interactions at the Georgia Institute of Technology and in tropical cyclone risk modeling at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Dr. Fosu’s research is broadly aimed at elucidating the mechanisms underlying climate variability and change, focusing on the dynamics that bridge any shifts with changes in extreme weather and climate conditions.

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Education

• Ph.D. Climate Science, Utah State University, 2018
• MSc. Climate Science, Utah State University, 2014
• BSc. Meteorology and Climate Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, 2011

Experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State University, 2022 – present
• Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 2021.
• Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018 – 2020.

Research Interests

• Large scale dynamics
• Climate and climate change
• Extreme event risk modeling

Teaching Areas

• GR 4613-6613 Applied Climatology
• GR 4643-6643 Physical Climatology 

Honors/Professional Activities

• 2017 Doctoral Student Researcher of the Year, College of Agriculture & Applied Sciences, Utah State University
• 2016 Graduate Student Researcher of the Year, Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, Utah State University
• Member of the American Geophysical Union
  • Member of American Meteorological Society

• He J., Deng Y., Fosu B., Lin Y-H., and Lu K., 2024. Constraining Regional Hydrological Sensitivity over Tropical Oceans. Geophysical Research Letters. 
• Fosu B., Lee C.-Y., Sobel A.H., Camargo S.J., and Tippett M.K., 2024. Response of Atlantic and Pacific tropical cyclone activity in a warming climate using statistically–dynamically downscaled projections from CMIP6. Journal of Catastrophe Risk and Resilience. 
• Finley J., Fosu B., Fuhrmann C., Mercer A., Rudzin J., and Wood K., 2024 Quantifying off-equatorial and ENSO-related sea surface temperature patterns in the eastern Pacific over intra-seasonal and interannual time scales. Frontiers in Earth Science. 
•  He J., Lu K., and Fosu B., 2024. Diverging Hydrological Sensitivity and Convection Threshold among Tropical Basins. Nature Climate Change. 
•  Sobel A., Bowen S., Camargo S., Cane M., Clement A., Fosu B., Hart M., Lee C-Y., Reede K., Seager R., and Tippett M. 2023. Near-Term Tropical Cyclone Risk and Coupled Model Biases. PNAS.