Dr. Susannah Burrows became interested in weather and climate as a child growing up in central Pennsylvania, beginning when her second-grade teacher had the class keep a weather journal with observations of clouds and measurements from the school’s weather station. She is currently an atmospheric scientist in Richland WA, and her research involves developing, using, and improving computer models to simulate interactions of Earth's ecosystems with climate.  She studied physics as an undergraduate at Oberlin College (BA, 2005) and then earned a Master’s degree in meteorology (atmospheric physics) and a PhD in atmospheric science at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and the Max Planck Graduate Center (2008, 2011).