Christopher Landsea, formerly a research meteorologist with Hurricane Research Division of Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory at NOAA, is now the Science and Operations Officer at the National Hurricane Center. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. He earned his doctoral degree in Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. Over the years, his work has involved the general hurricane FAQ currently on the National Hurricane Center website and the Atlantic hurricane reanalysis. He has been focal on the link between global warming and hurricane intensity change.