Kerry Harrison Cook is an American climate scientist who is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
She moved to Rice University as a graduate student, where she worked toward a Master's degree in space physics.
She was a doctoral researcher at North Carolina State University while in residence at the Institute for Energy Analysis in Oak Ridge, TN.
Her thesis research in atmospheric sciences focused on how the climate responds to increasing levels of carbon dioxide.
She uses numerical models that include atmospheric, oceanic and vegetation components to understand the physics of climate change and variability in the tropics, especially over South America and Africa.