Natalie Mahowald (born 1963) is an American Earth scientist who is the Irving Porter Church Professor of Engineering at Cornell University.
She moved to the University of Michigan for her graduate studies, where she earned a master's degree in natural resource policy in 1993.
Mahowald was a doctoral student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she studied atmospheric sciences.
After leaving UCSB, Mahowald joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), where she studied the incorporation of aerosols.
[6] In 2017, Mahowald was selected by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to be lead author on the “Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius,”.