Thomas Di Liberto
Tom Di Liberto is a climate scientist and science communicator working as a contractor with CollabraLink at NOAA’s Climate Program Office as the consulting climatologist for NOAA’s Climate.gov. He is a science writer, communication strategist, and social media manager at Climate.gov and the Climate Program Office, and he is also a member of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center’s El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) team forecasting El Niño and La Niña events.
In 2015-16, he served as emcee of the Department of State’s U.S. Center at the United Nations climate change conferences COP21 and COP22 leading the U.S. government’s public outreach space.









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