Barry Keim

Barry David Keim (born September 9, 1963, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a faculty member and previous Director of the Environmental Health, Climate, and Sustainability Program at the LSU-Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. He was previously the Richard J. Russell Professor in the Department of Geography & Anthropology at Louisiana State University (LSU). He served as the state climatologist for the state of Louisiana from 2002-2023. Before that he was on the faculty of the University of New Hampshire, and was the New Hampshire state climatologist, from 1994 to 2003. He is known for researching extreme weather, such as hurricanes and heavy rainfall.