Inez Fung 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 member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow in both the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society.
Fung received her Sc.D. from MIT in 1977 studying under Jule Gregory Charney, which a thesis entitled "The organization of spiral rainbands in a hurricane". Since then she has gone on to work extensively on climate modeling, biogeochemical cycles, and climate change. During the last decade, she was a contributing author 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.[1]