Mathew Barlow, Ph.D., Professor of Climate Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Dr. Barlow's research areas include climate change, droughts, floods, and heat waves, with particular geographic interest in the Northeast U.S., North America, Southwest Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

Dr. Barlow appeared on Science for the Public's Contemporary Science Issues & Innovations program January 07, 2025 to discuss, with his colleague, Jeffrey Bosara, Our Record-Breaking Global Heat

Matt Barlow has served as an editor for the Journal of Climate, a US CLIVAR Extremes Working Group co-chair, on the AMS Applied Climatology Committee, and on the AMS Board of Higher Education. He is a Lead Author in Working Group I for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, the extreme precipitation team leader for the 2022 greater Boston climate assessment, and a member of NOAA’s Fourth Drought Task Force (DTF4).