Alexandria Jones, Ph.D.

Alex is a climate scientist whose work currently focuses on extreme heat hazards. Prior to working at S&P Global, Alex completed her PhD in Earth and Climate Sciences at Duke University, where she studied the role of oceanic plankton in sequestering carbon from the atmosphere.

Alex has co-authored nine peer-reviewed publications and in her PhD work she spent more than three months at sea collecting data in remote regions including the sub-arctic North Pacific, North Atlantic, and Western Antarctic Peninsula.