Principal Investigator

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Jan Lenaerts (he/him)

Assistant Professor
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Starting September 2022, Jan will terminate his position as Assistant Professor at CU Boulder, and take up a new role as Manager of Research Science of the Climate Analytics team at McKinsey and Company. Biography PhD Polar Meteorology, Utrecht University (2013, cum laude ) Master of Science Meteorology & Air Quality, Wageningen University (2008) Bachelor of Science Soil, Water and Atmosphere, Wageningen University (2006) Jan is principal investigator and leader...

Research Associates

Rajashree (Tri) Datta

Rajashree Tri Datta

Research Associate
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
My research focuses on how atmospheric drivers affect the surface mass balance of the surface of ice sheets and ice shelves. I’m particularly interested in how extreme events can affect surface mass balance non-linearly. The main tool I use is a variable resolution version of the global climate model CESM2 (VR-CESM). I’ve designed and run a new grid with a higher-resolution domain over Antarctica to examine the effect of large...
Nander Wever

Nander Wever

Research Associate
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
As of January 2023, I transferred to the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Switerland. Please contact me there . Research interests Snow in polar regions (sea ice, ice sheets) Snow cover modeling using SNOWPACK and Alpine3D Biography Now: Scientific Employee at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos, Switzerland. 2020-2022: Research Faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic...

Graduate Students

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Rebecca Baiman (She/Her)

Graduate Student
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Becca is a first year graduate student in ATOC working with Jan Lenaerts and Andrew Winters. She received a BA in mathematics from Pomona College and a Masters of Education from Vanderbilt University. Her current research is using self organizing maps to classify meteorological patterns that bring Atmospheric Rivers to East Antarctica. She is also interested in past and future impacts of Atmospheric Rivers in Antarctica.
Devon Dunmire

Devon Dunmire (she/her)

Graduate Student
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Hi! I'm a 3rd year graduate studying meltwater in the polar regions. I came to CU from Colorado School of Mines where I recieved a BS in Geophysical Engineering. In 2019 I recieved a NASA FINESST Fellowship to study subsurface lakes in Antarctica. Currently I am working on a project that analyses global climate model CESM2's performance over Antarctica and a separate project that uses a snow model to analyze...
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Tessa Gorte (she/her)

Ph.D. Candidate
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Biography Tessa received a Bachelor of Science in Physics and graduated magna cum laude from the University of New Hampshire in 2012. She has worked with Assistant Professor Jan Lenaerts since 2017 as part of the NASA Sea Level Team, investigating the sea level contribution of ice sheets to past, present and future sea level rise. Her first paper, Scoring Antarctic surface mass balance in climate models to refine future...
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Michelle Maclennan

Graduate Student
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Biography Bachelor of Arts Mathematics and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, summa cum laude , University of Colorado Boulder (2019) Research Interests: Thwaites Glacier, surface mass balance, extreme snowfall events, Antarctic atmospheric rivers I research the impacts of snowfall and extreme precipitation events on the surface mass balance of West Antarctica, in particular Thwaites Glacier. I examine how large-scale atmospheric circulation over the Southern Ocean, including the coupling of low- and...
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Megan Thompson-Munson (she/her)

Graduate Student
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Master of Science Geology, University of Wyoming, 2020 Bachelor of Science Geology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2017 Bachelor of Science Environmental Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2017 Megan worked as an undergraduate research technician in Dr. Isla Castañeda's Biogeochemistry Lab where she used organic matter preserved in lake beds to reconstruct paleoclimate conditions in the East African Rift Valley during times of important hominin evolution. During her master's, Megan's focus...
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Ziqi Yin

Graduate Student
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Master of Science Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Climate, Stockholm University, 2020 Bachelor of Science Resources and Environmental Science, Beijing Normal University, 2018 Research Interests: Ice sheet-atmosphere interactions, numerical modeling Hi! I am a first-year PhD student in the Ice Sheets and Climate group. Currently, my research focuses on analyzing the precipitation over both the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets in CESM2 simulations and attributing biases in comparison with observational data...

Undergraduate Researchers

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Beth Mason (she/her)

Undergraduate Researcher
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
I am an undergraduate student seeking my second bachelor’s degree in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences with a minor in Geography (GIS). I have a BA in Journalism/Political Science from Metropolitan State University and a JD from the University of Maine School of Law. I have worked in the research field for the last seven years, most recently at UCAR/NCAR, and am excited to make the transition to working as a...

Affiliate Researchers

Jeremy Fyke

Jeremy Fyke

Assistant Professor Adjoint
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Jeremy Fyke is an Assistant Professor Adjoint in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is also Coordinator in the Canadian Centre for Climate Services at Environment and Climate Change Canada, as well as Visiting Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Jeremy has led efforts to apply climate models, observations and theory towards projections of future climate...
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Lynn (Nicki) Montgomery

Affiiate Researcher • Graduate Student (graduated with a PhD in Fall '20)
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Currently a Senior Scientist at Lockheed Martin. After obtaining her PhD in December 2020, Lynn remains connected with our group and department as an affiliate researcher. PhD Research: My research entails studying how meltwater influences surface mass balance components of ice sheets in both the Arctic and Antarctic. Recently, I was funded through NSF to assist in compiling the SUMup dataset which now contains more than 2,000,000 in situ measurements...

Former Group Members

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Drew Camron

Graduate Student (graduated with Masters in Summer '19)
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Currently Software Engineer at Unidata.

Marissa Dattler

Graduate Student (Graduated with a Masters in Summer '19)
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Currently PhD student at University of Maryland and NASA GSFC.
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Kaitlyn Hval

Hi, I'm Kaitlyn Hval (she/hers), and I'm currently a senior here at CU Boulder working on my B.S. in Environmental Studies with a minor in Atmospheric & Oceanic Science. My main interests of study are snow runoff and glacier hydrology!
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Eric Keenan

Graduate Student
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Biography: Ph.D. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado (2022) Master of Science Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado (2020) Bachelor of Science Earth and Space Sciences: Physics, University of Washington (2017) Hello! I’m a graduate student alumni of the Ice Sheets and Climate Group at the University of Colorado Boulder. My research focused on snow accumulation at the surface of ice sheets. I developed numerical models to better...

Yasmin Sid-ahmed

REU student
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