Ahmed Rodriguez is an oceanographer and climate data scientist whose work focuses on regional sea-level change and coastal risk. Born in 1983 in El Paso to Cuban and Pakistani parents, he studied civil engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and earned a Ph.D. in physical oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has held research posts at NOAA and the University of Lisbon, contributed to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on sea level, and published in Nature Climate Change and Geophysical Research Letters. Outside the lab, he mentors first-generation students and crews on volunteer hydrographic surveys along the Gulf Coast.
