Name | Title | Research Interests |
Joan Alexander | Professor Adjoint, ATOC; Sr. Research Scientist, Colorado Research Associates (CoRA) | Wave Dynamics and Convection, and Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Waves |
Michael Alexander | Meteorologist, NOAA | Air-Sea Interaction, climate dynamics, climate variability and change, marine ecosystems |
Christopher Cantrell | Senior Research Associate, ATOC | Development, improvement and deployment of mass spectrometric-based instrumentation for measurement of hydroxyl (OH), hydroperoxy (HO2) and organic peroxy radicals (RO2) (and other species), and interpretation of the data from those deployments |
Elizabeth Cassano | Professional Research Assistant, CIRES | Study of cyclones which affect the North Slope of Alaska, if and how they are changing and formation mechanisms of these cyclones |
Gengxin Chen | Visiting Scholar, ATOC | Indo-Pacific ocean circulation and dynamics |
Andrew Clifton | Research Associate, NREL | Detailed characterization of the wind conditions that NREL's megawatt-scale wind turbines endure using data from the new meteorological towers at the National Wind Technology Center |
Odele Coddington | Research Associate, LASP | Atmospheric radiative transfer; cloud and aerosol remote sensing; radiative energy budget analysis |
Joost DeGouw | Research Physicist, CIRES/NOAA | Volatile organic compounds |
Greg Duane | Research Associate, ATOC | Chaos synchronization, geophysical fluid dynamics, data assimilation, machine vision, quantum foundations |
Frank Evans | Sr Research Associate, ATOC | Remote sensing of clouds, radiative transfer |
Xiaohua Fang | Research Associate LASP | Middle atmosphere |
John Fasullo | Research Associate, ATOC; and Project Scientist, NCAR | Low-frequency tropical variability |
Jeff France | Research Associate, LASP | Middle atmosphere |
Alan Fried | Sr Research Associate, INSTAAR | Advanced Laser Technology for Atmospheric Research |
John Gille | Professor Adjoint; Principal Investigator, Center for Limb Atmospheric Sounding | Remote sensing of the upper atmosphere |
Raina Gough | Research Associate, CIRES | Laboratory studies of the heterogenous chemistry of trace gases on Mars |
V Lynn Harvey | Research Associate, LASP | Middle atmosphere dynamics, Lagrangian tracer transport, Model-Observation Inter-comparisons |
Sue Ellen Haupt | Director, Weather Systems Assessment Program, NCAR | Wind and Renewable Energy, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Turbulence, Dispersion, Dynamical Systems, Fluid Dynamics, Dynamic Meteorology, Climate, Numerical Modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics |
Mimi Hughes | Research Associate, CIRES | Investigation of the climate system that are unresolvable by traditional climate models |
Eric Jensen | NASA Ames Research Center | Cirrus clouds; ice nucleation; cloud-aerosol interactions; cloud-radiative interactions |
Lars Kalnajs | Research Associate, LASP | Atmospheric chemistry, instrument development and observations |
Bruce Kindel | Research Associate, LASP | Cloud shortwave spectral radiative properties: Airborne hyperspectral measurements and modeling of irradiance. |
Michael King | Senior Research Scientist, LASP | Algorithm development and climatology from the MODIS instrument on the Terra and Aqua spacecraft, especially cloud optical and microphysical properties |
David Kingsmill | Research Scientist III, CIRES/NOAA | Research Scientist III, CIRES/NOAA Thermodynamic Structures of Sierra Barrier Jets and Overrunning Atmospheric Rivers during a Land-falling Winter Storm in Northern California |
Alan Scott Kittelman | Professional Research Assistant, ATOC | Experimental geophysical fluid dynamics |
Branko Kosovic | NCAR | Extending multiscale modeling capabilities in the Weather Research and Forecasting model for wind energy applications. |
Yuanlong Li | Research Associate, ATOC | Indo-Pacific ocean circulation, dynamics, air-sea interaction, water mass |
Rodman Linn | Los Alamos National Lab | Expertise in solving and modeling problems involving complex thermal, mechanical, and fluid dynamics systems, including wildfire behavior modeling |
Daniel Marsh | Scientist III, NCAR | Understanding the chemistry and dynamics of the middle and upper atmosphere, and coupling to the tropospheric climate. |
Roy Leon Mauldin | Sr Research Associate, ATOC | Development of instrumentation for airborne measurments of trace atmospheric species; development of software for data aquisition and analysis; role of OH, H2SO4 and MSA in the oxidation of sulfur compounds; aerosol formation and characterization |
David Munro | Postdoctoral Research Associate, INSTAAR | Marine carbon cycle, stable isotope biogeochemistry |
Melville Nicholls | Sr Research Associate, CIRES | Numerical modeling, squall lines, convective storms, gravity waves, compression waves, energy transfer, airflow around buildings, the atmospheric boundary layer, sources and sinks of carbon dioxide, infrasound and tropical cyclones. He taught classes in numerical modeling, and in extreme weather and its consequences for society |
Melissa Nigro | Research Associate, CIRES | Focus on the driving forces of the low-level wind field over the Ross Ice Shelf |
Michael Rhodes | Professional Research Associate, ATOC | Doppler lidar to quantify the wind speed deficit and turbulence enhancement of a turbine wake |
Sebastian Schmidt | Research Scientist II, LASP | Atmospheric radiation. |
Matthew Shupe | Associate Scientist, CIRES/NOAA | Polar clouds, remote sensing, boundary layer processes |
Andrew Slater | Research Scientist III, NSIDC | Land-surface and hydrologic modeling of snow, frozen ground, permafrost; hydrologic forecasting and data assimilation |
Jamison Smith | Research Scientist II, LASP | Simulation of the evolution of smoke aerosol from the Siberian forest fires of 2003 and new particle formation in the atmosphere. |
Sharon Stammerjohn | INSTAAR Affiliate | Polar oceanography and climate, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding environmental and ecosystem response to climate variability. |
Julienne Stroeve | Research Scientist III, NSIDC | Remote sensing of snow and ice in the visible, infrared, and microwave wavelengths |
DeZheng Sun | Senior Scientist, NOAA/CIRES | Atmosphere-ocean coupling, climatic role of water vapor and clouds, global climate modeling |
Roger Wakimoto | ATOC Research Professor; Asst Director, Geosciences NSF | Severe convective weather phenomena, including severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and downbursts |
Joshua Wurman | Center for Severe Weather Research | Investigating tornadogenesis, tornado structure, nurricane boundary layers and surface wind damage, as well as radar technology |