Inez Fung

Inez Yau-Sheung Fung (; born April 11, 1949) is a professor of atmospheric science at the University of California, Berkeley, jointly appointed in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. She is also the co-director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment.
She is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and a fellow in both the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society.
Early life and education.
Inez Fung was born and grew up in Hong Kong, which was then a British colony. She spoke Chinese at home and learned English at school. Her parents did not have opportunities for higher education and thought it was important for their four children to have educational opportunities. She attended Maryknoll Sister School and graduated from King's College, Hong Kong, in 1967. In response to the 1967 Hong Kong riots, her family left Hong Kong for North America. She traveled to the United States and enrolled in Utica College in New York. Fung transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving her Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics in 1971. Studying under Jule Gregory Charney in the Meteorology Department at MIT, she wrote her doctoral thesis on the “organization of spiral rainbands in a hurricane,” She won the Rossby Award for "outstanding thesis of the year."
She received her Sc.D. in 1977, becoming the second woman to graduate from MIT with a doctorate in Meteorology.
Career.
She joined NASA Godddard Space Flight Center as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow from 1977 till 1979 when she joined NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. In 1986 she was hired as a Physical Scientist at Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In 1993, she moved to the University of Victoria in Canada, as a professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences. In 1998, Fung joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley as the Founding Director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center.
Since then, she has done extensive work on climate modeling, biogeochemical cycles, and climate change. During the last decade, she contributed to both the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third and Fourth Assessment reports.
In 2006, she joined with 17 other climate scientists to file an amicus curiae brief in "Massachusetts v. EPA" to support the need for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.
Personal life.
Fung lives in Berkeley, California and is married to Oceanographer Jim Bishop, a professor at the University of California-Berkeley.