2021 CESM Tutorial Participants

Akintomide Afolayan Akinsanola

I am a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia. I earned my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Meteorology at the Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria and a doctoral degree in Climate Science at the School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong. I’m interested in monsoon systems, particularly in West Africa. Also, I work on climate model evaluation, diagnostic study of extreme events, and climate projections.Currently, I’m assessing the capability and potentials of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model in simulating extreme events over the United States.
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Allison Berry

My name is Allie Berry. I am a second year Master’s degree student at the University of Arizona. I work with Dr. Marcus Lofverstrom in the Geoscience Department. I am using CESM2 to investigate how the deglaciation of the Greenland Ice Sheet influenced change in atmospheric circulation during the Last Interglacial Period. I am fairly new to modeling and coding so I am really looking forward to this workshop to learn more about it! I am really excited about this model and can’t wait to hear what everyone else is working on. In my free time I like to hang out with my cat Bruce and dog Bob, do Crossfit, swim, and hike.

Hemraj Bhattarai

Hi and Namastee, this is Hemraj Bhattarai (you can call me ‘Hem’) from Nepal, a landlocked country between China and India. I completed my B.Sc. in Environmental Science and Management from the Pokhara University, Nepal (2009-2014), M.Sc. from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (2016-2019) and currently enrolled as PhD at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2020-ongoing). My research during M.Sc. was focused on air pollution particularly related to nitrogenous aerosols with ground-based observation data from the Himalayan and Tibetan Plateau. During my PhD, my research is focused on different dimensions of air pollution from the modeling point of view. I analyze the land-atmosphere interactions using community earth system model (CESM2.1.3)

Alice Chapman

I am a 3rd year Geosciences PhD student at the University of Arizona. My research involves analyzing the geochemistry of corals from remote Pacific islands to understand past Pacific trade-wind variability and more broadly, Pacific climate phenomena such as ENSO and Pacific Decadal Variability. I hope to use climate modeling to investigate the role of transient, localized trade-wind reversal events in the development and maintenance of anomalous sea surface warming associated with El Niño events. I am an avid scuba diver and love to be in or near the ocean. My other hobbies include hiking, cooking, and reading.

Gustavo Cretton

Gustavo Cretton is an Environmental Engineer, Master in Biosystems Engineering and Doctoral Student in Energy Planning. His research is related to hydrological forecasts for the Brazilian electricity sector and the impact of climate change on this same sector. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In his free time, Gustavo likes to go to the beach, read, watch Netflix, play with his dogs and eat!

Yue Dong

I am currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences in the University of Washington. I study climate sensitivity, radiative feedbacks and teleconnections, mostly using global climate model simulations and observations. My recent work focuses on how spatial patterns of surface warming influence global energy budget, and how the observed recent warming pattern is formed, using idealized GCM simulations.

Nick Duong

I am currently entering my third year as a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine working with Dr. Aomawa Shields. My research involves using a one-dimensional energy balance model to simulate the equilibrium climate response of extrasolar planets around F-, G-, K-, and M-dwarf stars. However, the inherent simplicity of the energy balance model calls for more complex modeling for more robust results and so utilizing a global climate model such as CESM would be the natural next step in my research. Other topics that I’m interested in are the study of biosignatures and extremophiles and would love to network with anyone else in this realm. Outside of research, I love playing video and board games, swimming, boxing, biking, and playing the ukulele when I have the chance. I am also into anime/manga and I am a total geek for several franchises, including Marvel and Star Wars, and absolutely love the Flash. It would be great to meet others who share my interests but feel free to contact me regardless as I love meeting new people!

Vicki Dutch

I’m a PhD Student at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. My PhD looks at snowpack structure and subnivean carbon cycling in the Canadian Arctic, using both PointCLM and in situ measurements of snow and soil properties and carbon flux (mostly from an Eddy Covariance network, but I’m also hoping to do some snowpack gas sampling as part of fieldwork currently being planned for March 2022). I’m also one of 2 EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) officers for the UK Polar Network – the UK national committee of the Association of Early Career Polar Scientists (APECS). Outside of work, I enjoy indie music, and have spent the last year of lockdown trying to teach myself to play the piano.

Cuiyi Fei

I’m in my first year’s summer in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia advised by Prof. Rachel H. White. My research interest is about large-scale Rossby waves and how they impact surface extreme events. More specifically, I am studying quasi-stationary waves and hopefully, possible mechanisms/causes of these, using a variety of data of reanalysis and model simulations. During the tutorial, I hope I can learn more about idealized climate modeling, which would be essential to explore some fundamental aspects. I enjoy reading books about history and sociology books in my spare time.

Ryan Glaubke

I’m a PhD candidate in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Broadly, my research interests center around reconstructing Earth’s climate history through the lens of the ocean using sand-grain-sized fossil shells buried in marine sediments. The geochemistry of these shells, formed by small zooplankton called “foraminifera”, preserve a history of ocean temperature, continental ice volume, water mass configuration, and many other important features that allow paleoceanographers such as myself to refine how the ocean initiates, perpetuates, and/or responds to global climate change. While completing my Master’s degree in Norfolk, VA, USA, my research primarily focused on reconstructing the strength of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation over the last 25,000 years to resolve its response to the naturally abrupt climate events that characterize the planet’s last deglaciation. Now, I am working on newly-recovered sediment cores from the Indian and Southern Oceans to investigate the role the ocean played in the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide as the planet transitioned out of the last ice age. Outside of the lab, you can catch me at the beach or in the mountains. I’m also a bit of a bibliophile attempting to build a personal library.

Alex Gottlieb

Alex Gottlieb is a 3rd-year PhD student at Dartmouth College in Justin Mankin's Climate Modeling and Impacts Group. Originally hailing from Pittsburgh, PA, he currently lives in Norwich, VT. His research interests revolve around deepening our understanding of the causes and consequences of climate extremes such as droughts, heat waves, and wildfires to better prepare for their attendant impacts in a changing climate. He is currently exploring where, when, and how snow droughts select for these costly and disruptive warm-season impacts. Outside of work, he can generally be found running, paddling, baking, gardening, reading science fiction, or trying and failing to outsmart his small herd of dairy goats.

Joseph Gradone

I am entering the second year of Rutgers University’s PhD program in Oceanography where the overarching theme of my research is the improvement of hurricane forecast models. Presently, there is little (if any) subsurface ocean current data assimilated into hurricane models in real-time. We are currently developing a system to process data from an acoustic doppler current profiler mounted on a Teledyne-Webb Research Slocum glider in real-time. This system will enable the investigation of both process-based and data assimilation improvements for hurricane forecast models. While I hope to contribute to the improvement of forecast models in a near-real time frame, I am also very interested in hurricane modeling in the context of longer time frames and in the context of our changing climate. A better understanding of how hurricanes are predicted to evolve in space and time with different climate projection scenarios would be valuable information for city planners, insurance companies, private citizens, and many others. I am excited by the prospect of being able to use CESM in this context and contribute to this effort. In my free time, I am an avid beer brewer, chocolate addict, and puppy enthusiast.

Nabindra Gyawali

I am a first-year graduate student at the University at Albany, SUNY. I study land-atmosphere interaction and climate variability. I am currently working on low-level jets and atmospheric rivers in the central US. I work with Dr. Craig Ferguson at Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC).

Madhi Hasan

I am currently a second year Ph.D. student in the department of Marine Earth & Atmospheric Science at NC State University. Prior to joining NC state, I completed my bachelor’s and master's degree in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). My current research involves intrinsic air-sea interactions on large scale sea surface temperature variability under climate change scenarios. I also have keen interests in sea ice extinctions in polar regions and global climate modeling. Apart from my research and studies, I love to hang out with friends, play soccer, cricket and table tennis.

Jacob Hendrickson

I am a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine. I am advised by Professor Michael Pritchard and Dr. Christopher Terai of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. I study precipitation and its representation in climate models. Specifically, I am interested in understanding what physical processes control the global mean precipitation rate in both present and future climate by trying to separately understand constraints from radiative demand versus evaporation efficiency based on the bulk latent heat flux formula. I am also interested in outreach and communication on the topic of climate change and its impacts on tribal communities. Prior to starting my Ph.D. at UC-Irvine, I received my B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington.

Joseph Hallowed

Joe is a current graduate student in the University of Michigan’s Physics program. His work focuses on numerical stability and accuracy of atmospheric simulation dynamical cores, especially FV3. He is generally interested in code design and parallelism, as well as studying the ways in which complex phenomena arise from systems governed by primitive background equations, from the atmospheric to cosmological scales. Personal interests are rock climbing, backpacking, photography, and websites that don’t use JavaScript.

Jize Jiang

My name is Jize Jiang. I am a PhD student from the University of Edinburgh. My research interests broadly include 1) investigating how atmospheric compositions evolve and vary with climate change, and what are the impacts on the air quality, 2) the land-air exchange schemes of gases, and 3) the N cycling in the earth system. Currently I am working on quantifying climate dependent ammonia emissions by developing a dynamic process-based model and studying the subsequent impacts on the environment. P.S. I enjoy reading and watching films, and I am a big football fan!

Hanjun Kim

My research interests are the uncertainties of climate models, focusing on the tropical precipitation and surface temperature pattern, by making hypotheses with CMIP models and performing climate model experiments for target hypotheses. In recent work, I found that inter-model spread of hemispherically symmetric components of zonal-mean tropical precipitation pattern can be linked to the inter-model differences in water vapor shortwave absorptivity using CMIP models. To check this hypothesis, I changed the water vapor shortwave absorptivity in CAM radiative transfer scheme and found that water vapor shortwave absorptivity can indeed strengthen the tropical cold tongue structure thereby diverges the precipitation off the equator. Now, I’m interested in the uncertainties of tropical Pacific climate patterns, especially focusing on linkages with the cloud biases over the Southern Hemipshere extratropics. By analyzing the experimental results (ETIN-MIP) where the insolation in 8 climate models over the Southern Hemisphere extratropics is reduced, I confirm the remote impacts on tropical Pacific and understand the robust mechanism. The additional ensemble and the regional cloud locking experiments with CESM1-CAM5 have facilitated the analysis. Besides the research, I like trekking, cooking and like to invite friends to dinner time!

Dervla Meegan Kumar

Dervla is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona. Prior to coming to Arizona, she earned an M.Sc. in Geology and Environmental Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017 and a B.Sc. in Geological Sciences from Binghamton University in 2013. Her research combines model data with paleoclimate reconstructions based on organic geochemical proxies to explore glacial-interglacial climate variability in southwestern North America and the eastern Pacific. In her spare time, she enjoys tennis, hiking, and live music.

Jed Lenetsky

My name is Jed Lenetsky and I am a PhD student in atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder. My research is focused on understanding the circulation of the Arctic Ocean, exchanges of freshwater between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, and the influences of these processes on global climate. Before starting my PhD, I completed a master’s degree in Geography at CU Boulder and B.S. in environmental science at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. During those programs, I conducted research on seasonal sea ice prediction in the western Arctic Ocean. In my free time, I enjoy cooking, hiking, snowboarding, and losing in online chess.

Olexandr Lednyts'kyy

Dr. Lednyts'kyy is a project scientist in Environmental Physics at University of Greifswald in Germany. His research interests center around remote sensing and atmospheric chemistry. His early research focused on the optimization of the retrieval of emission profiles used in a chemical model developed including the quintet excited state of dioxygen and other trace components to derive atomic oxygen in the upper atmosphere. He validated model calculations using data with various levels of self-consistency: data measured in situ or data obtained using different techniques. Currently, his research focuses on chemistry modeling of trace gases in the mesosphere and the stratosphere. He is also interested in quantification of uncertainty and sensitivity of derived trace gases to understand sources of uncertainty in models. He holds a specialist degree in Geology from National Mining University of Ukraine, a Dipl.-Phys. degree in Physics from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, and a doctoral degree in Physics from University of Greifswald in Germany. He investigated hydrology and ecology of the Crimean Sea Syvash during his graduate work in Ukraine, and state modeling using Hidden Markov Chains and other statistical approaches during his graduate work in Germany. When not trying to assimilate data, he enjoys hiking.

Yue Li

Dr. Yue Li is a postdoctoral scholar and an Earth system scientist at Randerson lab of the University of California, Irvine. He is interested in the vegetation coupling with physical climate, hydrology, and biogeochemical cycle. He uses the Earth system model, satellite data, and ground observations to study the climate impacts and feedbacks in the Earth system. Yue’s current research work relates to the biophysical and biogeochemical climate effects of tropical deforestation. During his Ph.D., he published a series of papers that systematically assess the biophysical temperature & hydrological effects of afforestation and vegetation greening in China, where the largest ecological project has been performed in the world. His research interests broadly involve land-atmosphere coupling, global energy balance, hydrological and biogeochemical cycles. His bachelor’s degree is in Geography from Wuhan University and his Ph.D.degree is in Physical Geography from Peking University.

Binghan Liu

I am a First-year Astrophysics PhD student at the University of Leeds. I have been focusing on the topic of climate response to orbital changes in terms of eccentricity and obliquity, and how these changes affect the habitability and observability of terrestrial exoplanets.

Ana Lobo

I am a planetary science graduate student at Caltech, studying the atmospheric and ocean dynamics of water worlds. My atmospheric work focuses on planetary seasonal and hydrological cycles, using GCMs to explore Earth-like planetary climates. I am interested in extreme climate scenarios not only as a study of planetary climate, but also as a tool to explore aspects of Earth’s seasonal atmospheric circulation that remain poorly understood.

Vanessa Maciel

I'm Vanessa, a first-year graduate student at San Jose State University. My research interests lie in the intersection of climate change, air pollution, aerosol-cloud interactions and extreme precipitation. I am currently working in Dr. Minghui Diao's Cloud and Aerosol group. My reearch involves studying cirrus clouds and their relationship with aerosols with both in-situ and model data.

Subhail Mahmud

I am Suhail Mahmud, currently employed at the Pennsylvania State University's Earth and Environmental System Institute. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Elpaso, which focused on optimizing regional-scale numerical weather prediction models for Paso del Norte. I have experience working with different NWP models, including WRF, MPAS, and Air Quality models like CMAQ and CAMx. My other background is as an Atmospheric Data Scientist, and I implement machine learning and data analysis algorithms in this field. One of my future goals is to develop a hyper-accurate NWP model for a third-world country.

Samar Minallah

I am a doctoral candidate in climate and space sciences at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. I hail from Pakistan where I have worked for over 5-years as a civil engineer and water resources professional before pursuing PhD. My present research broadly focuses on studying regional hydroclimates, interactions between the governing atmosphere-cryosphere-hydrosphere processes, and their future evolution by using data analysis and modeling tools together with application of fundamental physical concepts. I am working on two projects; the first is on large inland water bodies and how they influence the regional hydroclimates, and the second project evaluates the mass balance sensitivity and dynamics of the Himalaya-Karakoram-Hindukush glaciers under changing climate.

Dimitris Mitropoulos

I’m a PhD candidate at the department of Meteorology and Climatology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. My research is on subseasonal predictions of intense weather events such as heatwaves and cold spells. Currently, I'm working on WRF-ARW and MPAS simulations and my main goal is to use CESM model, test its predictability for subseasonal timescales and investigate which sources of predictability play a crucial role for such events in the Mediterranean Sea. I also have a degree in geology and this is the reason I love mountaineering, caving and getting hit by wild goats out of the blue.

Maria Molina

Dr. Maria J. Molina (she/her) is a project scientist working at the NCAR Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory within the Climate Change Research section. Her research focuses on using machine learning and climate model simulations for Earth system prediction and predictability. Previously, Maria was an Advanced Study Program postdoctoral fellow at NCAR and also spent six years working as a broadcast meteorologist in New York City. She currently lives in the Boulder, CO area with her maltese dog named Cumulus.

Frida Perez

My name is Frida and I've lived inSouthern California for most of my life. I am currently finishing up my masters at UCLA and am excited to continue working on Antarctic sea ice thickness and volume for my PhD research. More so, I am stoked to learn from this CESM tutorial and eventually run some models on my own since that is what really drew me to this field. When I'm not working on data I like to be outdoors or playing music!

Anh Pham

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at ISPL, Sorbonne University in Paris, France. I was born in Russia and lived there for four years before coming back to my home country, Vietnam. I received my Bachelor's degree in Marine Engineering from Hanoi University of Science in 2013 and a Ph.D. degree in oceanography from the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology in 2019. I am interested in understanding mechanisms controlling ocean biogeochemical cycles and their sensitivity to future changes. During my Ph.D., I worked on understanding the ocean iron dynamics using ocean biogeochemistry models. For my postdoc, I evaluate the impact of bacteria on ocean biogeochemistry and explore how bacteria respond to future changes. I spend my free time going to museums, reading books on fiction and philosophy in Vietnamese, English, and just recently, in French.

Byrum Pinto

I am a Peruvian meteorologist with a MSc degree in Atmosphere Ocean & Climate from the University of Reading and currently a PhD student in the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. My research interests are Tropical climate and variability, atmosphere-ocean interactions and inter-basin teleconnections. Furthermore, my personal interests involve travelling, experiencing other cultures and making/eating desserts :).

Sam Rabin

Sam Rabin is a postdoctoral researcher at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, where he is using vegetation and land-use models to explore the future of the human-Earth system. In September, he will begin a new job with Rutgers University, performing development of and runs using CTSM and CESM in order to quantify the impacts of possible geoengineering (solar radiation management) on agricultural and natural ecosystems.

Dana Raiter

I'm a first-year PhD student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. Right before starting my PhD and moving to NYC at the beginning of 2021, I completed my MSc. in the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Weizmann Institute in Israel where I researched the atmospheric large-scale tropical circulation. My current research is in early stages and focuses on changes in precipitation under climate change and specifically hydrological sensitivity. Outside of work, I've been enjoying getting to know NYC alongside my 6-year old puppy Archer.

Emma Renee Robertson

I am a 2nd year PhD student at Penn State in the Department of Geography. In 2020, I completed my B.S. in Environmental Science at UMass Amherst. I am interested in studying ice sheet-climate dynamics, particularly in West Antarctica. I plan to integrate climate modelling with ice core records to investigate how extreme weather events like atmospheric rivers impact ice sheet surface mass balance and sea level rise. My hobbies include going to concerts, hiking, travelling, and going to the beach with my friends.

Noah Rosenberg

I am a second-year PhD student in Physical Oceanography at the University of Washington. My focus is studying variability of physical patterns in the North Atlantic, in particular the subpolar gyre strength and the AMOC. I use models to determine coherence of observable metrics with changes in circulation, which can then be measured directly or in the paleoclimate proxy record to approximate past and future variability in the ocean and climate. I have also worked directly with paleoclimate proxy data to measure variability in this region. In addition, I am an avid backpacker and cellist.

Harmanveer Singh

Harmanveer Singh is a researcher in the Climate Modeling & Impacts Group at Dartmouth College, interested in analyzing the overlying meteorology during drought events. Their previous research experience includes observing free-tropospheric ozone trends over Northern California and analyzing the relationship between high-ozone events aloft and corresponding surface-level conditions. They are from New York City and hold a BA from Columbia University.

Jyoti Singh

I am currently a PhD student in the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. I have masters in remote sensing and GIS, specializing in soils and agriculture from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing. My research is focused on assessing the impact of climate change and climate interventions on agriculture. In my PhD, I have utilized site-specific crop model DSSAT to investigate the impact of climate change on rice production in Indo-Gangetic plains using various SSPs from CMIP6. As a postdoc at Rutgers University, I would be expanding my research from site-specific crop models to land models in a fully coupled GCM, to be specific, CLM5.0.

Ben Taylor

Ben Taylor is a second year graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD), where he’s advised by Lynne Talley and Shang-Ping Xie. He is interested in how the ocean and atmosphere sustain life on earth through their circulation and mixing, and which processes are vulnerable to anthropogenic perturbations. He’s hoping to study changes in ventilation due to increased upper ocean stratification, particularly in mode and intermediate waters, using coupled models and observations. Before SIO, Ben did a formational year of research on Southern Ocean biogeochemistry at Princeton, after finishing a BA in physics there. Ben grew up in West Virginia, where he and his little brother were home-schooled by his brilliant parents and he spent a lot of time in the woods. His personal life is focused on love: receiving it from God, his wife, friends and family and the earth, and trying to give it back as best as possible. He enjoys music, food, playing sports, forgetting his phone exists, adventures of all kinds, and being among people in need.

Rudradutt Thaker

I am a first-year graduate student, starting this Fall-2021, at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison. I will be working with Dr. Stephen Vavrus and a group of scientists from NCAR, to study interactions between atmospheric rivers, arctic cyclones, sea-ice in a warming climate. My research will be focused on analyzing different components of the feedback system, using CESM among other models/datasets, and their effects on sea-ice loss. My broader research interests are to study different atmospheric and oceanic feedbacks at the polar regions and Himalayas that can help minimize the repercussions of ice loss on the global climate. Apart from my research, I enjoy trekking and cycling in my free

Juan Palbo Tolento

I am a first-year graduate student, starting this Fall-2021, at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison. I will be working with Dr. Stephen Vavrus and a group of scientists from NCAR, to study interactions between atmospheric rivers, arctic cyclones, sea-ice in a warming climate. My research will be focused on analyzing different components of the feedback system, using CESM among other models/datasets, and their effects on sea-ice loss. My broader research interests I am currently starting my second year of my PhD program at the Earth System Science department in UC Irvine. My work is mostly focused on improving the treatment of atmospheric radiative transfer in Earth system models in order to gain a better understanding of the climate sensitivity with respect to shortwave radiation.

Tim van den Akker

Hi all! My name is Tim van den Akker, I am a Dutch PhD candidate at the Utrecht University and I work together with the NCAR to improve CISM (now I am mainly focussed on testing new basal sliding laws), and eventually I will try to model ice - ocean interactions between CISM and MOM6. In my spare time I like to be outside as much as possible, doing various kinds of sport like obstacle course running, cycling, climbing, hiking and camping. I furthermore enjoy cooking a lot, with the real Italian pizza as my specialty, I brew craft beers and play guitar in a rock band. I look forward to meeting you all during the workshops!

Chenghao Wang

Chenghao Wang is a postdoc researcher in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University. He is also the Environment & Climate fellow of the New Map of Life Initiative in the Stanford Center on Longevity. His research mainly focuses on urban meteorology and climatology, building energy use, and urban sustainability. Chenghao received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University where he focused on quantifying the effectiveness of green infrastructure (especially urban trees) with ground-based observations, numerical simulations, and remote sensing techniques.

Brandon Wolding

Brandon Wolding began his work at NOAA PSL as a NOAA Climate and Global Change fellow in 2018, investigating the role of moisture in convective coupling. In August of 2020 he joined the Atmosphere-Ocean Processes team, helping develop process-oriented diagnostics aimed at improving model representation of organized tropical convection. His previous work includes examining how tropical-extratropical interactions will change in a warming climate, furthering understanding of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), and the role of air-sea interactions in the MJO. Brandon first worked for NOAA as an observer biologist aboard longline tuna and swordfish boats in the Hawaiian and American Samoan fisheries.

Xiaodong (Daisy) Zhang

I'm a student at University of California, Santa Cruz. My research interest is focused on the intensification of the hydrological cycle, especially hydrological responses during the Paleocene-Eocene-Thermal-Maximum. I am using multi-proxy analysis and modeling simulation to characterize regional hydroclimate changes through the PETM. IMy name is Daisy. I am a Ph.D student in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at the like hiking, cooking, and painting in my spare time for fun of life. I am very excited to be part of the CESM tutorial community.

Jianyu Zheng

My name is Jianyu Zheng, also go by “Kevin”. I am a third-year Ph.D. student of atmospheric physics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. I am studying the dust aerosol radiative impact using remote sensing techniques. I would like to explore my studies by combining climate model simulations with observations. I am looking forward to learning more about CESM and making more friends in the tutorial. Thanks!

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2021 CESM Tutorial Participants

Akintomide Afolayan Akinsanola

Allison Berry

Hemraj Bhattarai

Alice Chapman

Gustavo Cretton

Yue Dong

Nick Duong

Vicki Dutch

Cuiyi Fei

Ryan Glaubke

Alex Gottlieb

Joseph Gradone

Nabindra Gyawali

Madhi Hasan

Jacob Hendrickson

Joseph Hallowed

Jize Jiang

Hanjun Kim

Dervla Meegan Kumar

Jed Lenetsky

Olexandr Lednyts'kyy

Yue Li

Binghan Liu

Ana Lobo

Vanessa Maciel

Subhail Mahmud

Samar Minallah

Dimitris Mitropoulos

Maria Molina

Frida Perez

Anh Pham

Byrum Pinto

Sam Rabin

Dana Raiter

Emma Renee Robertson

Noah Rosenberg

Harmanveer Singh

Jyoti Singh

Ben Taylor

Rudradutt Thaker

Juan Palbo Tolento

Tim van den Akker

Chenghao Wang

Brandon Wolding

Xiaodong (Daisy) Zhang

Jianyu Zheng

Jize Jiang

Olexandr Lednyts'kyy

Jed Lenetsky

Emma Renee Robertson

Maria Molina

Allison Berry

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