Antonio Busalacchi Jr. is the eighth president of the Boulder, Colorado-based University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
[1] Prior to joining UCAR, Busalacchi was a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) and Chair of the Council on the Environment (ConE) at the University of Maryland.
He has served as chair of the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme.
[2] and co-chair of the National Research Council's Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space.
In 2023, he was made an honorary member and fellow of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.