Kahn has lectured on Climate Change and atmospheric physics at Caltech, UCLA, and many other venues, was Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland (2016-2023), and is editor and founder of PUMAS, the on-line journal of science and math examples for pre-college education. He has authored over 250 publications in refereed scientific journals and book chapters. Kahn was chair of COSPAR (the international Committee on SPAce Research) Commission A (Earth Science) from 2016-2024, and is co-chair of AeroSat, the international association of the satellite aerosol remote-sensing community. He has received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, the Robert H. Goddard award for Exceptional Achievement in Science, the American Geophysical Union’s Yoram J. Kaufman award, NASA’s William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Science, Robert H. & Joanne Simpson Award from the American Meteorological Society, and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.