Affiliate Faculty

Arctic climate; cryosphere-climate interactions; mountain climate; climate change

Land-atmosphere interactions

Fluid Dynamics, Aerodynamics, Geophysical Flows, Biomechanics

Remote Sensing, Earth & Space Sciences

Remote Sensing, Earth & Space Sciences

Turbulent flows, reacting flows and combustion, computational fluid dynamics, geophysical turbulence, propulsion, and vortex dynamics.

Atmospheric chemistry: field measurements; aerosol mass spectrometry; advanced instrument development.

Dynamics and instability processes in geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics.

Ocean modeling; coastal/marginal seas; atmospheric boundary layer.

Numerical ocean modeiling, computational fluid dynamics, geophsyical fluid dynamics, satellite oceanography, remote sensing, supercomputing.

Impacts of changing land cover and climate on water resources; land surface modeling and the terrestrial water balance; regionalization of land surface processes and parameters.

Paleooceanography, paleoclimatology, abrupt climate change, marine carbon cycle, trace and minor elements in biogenic calcium carbonate.

Satellite altimetry, sea level change, Earth gravity field determination, time variations of the Earth's gravity field, planetary geodesy, precision orbit determination, astrodynamics.

Design, construction, deployment and operation of HF/VHF meteor radar systems; statistical detection, estimation, and direction of arrival algorithms; atmospheric remote sensing; global nonlinear atmospheric dynamics; and sampling/aliasing issues relate to asynoptic sampling.

Arctic climate variability and change, high latitude atmospheric circulation and numerical weather prediction, arctic atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions.

Remote sensing of the atmosphere and ionosphere using lidar and radar techniques; optical systems and design; atmospheric and space physics; geophysical fluid dynamics, electrodynamics, and plasma physics.

Remote sensing of the atmosphere and ionosphere using lidar and radar techniques; optical systems and design; atmospheric and space physics; geophysical fluid dynamics, electrodynamics, and plasma physics.

Atmospheric chemistry; heterogeneous reactions.

Atmospheric chemistry; spectroscopy and photochemistry

Analytical Spectroscopy (e.g., atmospheric trace-gas observations from ground, ships, research aircraft), tropospheric chemistry, field and laboratory studies, advanced remote sensing instrumentation).