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Derek Brown

Senior Instructor/Associate Teaching Professor • Director of Undergraduate Education
John Cassano

John Cassano (he/him/his)

Professor
ATOC and CIRES
Meteorology and climate of the polar regions, regional climate modeling, numerical weather prediction, mesoscale and boundary layer processes
Pedro DiNezio

Pedro DiNezio (they, their, them)

Associate Professor
ATOC
Studies dynamics, predictability, and impacts of global climate fluctuations generated by the tropical oceans, such as El Niño and La Niña. Uses numerical models to investigate drivers of past environmental changes inferred from geological archives with the objective of improving predictions of future climate change.
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Katja Friedrich (she/her/hers)

Professor • Associate Chair
ATOC
Investigation of kinematic and microphysical processes relevant for cloud formation and change of precipitation; conduct modeling, analysis and field studies in cloud physics
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Donata Giglio (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
ATOC
Large scale ocean dynamics, air-sea interaction and geophysical fluid dynamics
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Weiqing Han

Professor
ATOC
Tropical ocean circulation, dynamics, air-sea interaction, climate variability and change
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John Hart

Professor Emeritus
ATOC
Astrogeophysical fluid dynamics, planetary atmospheres,and microscopic interfacial phenomena
Alexandra Jahn

Alexandra Jahn (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
ATOC and INSTAAR
Climate Modeling, Arctic Ocean and sea ice variability, freshwater, paleoclimate, modeling isotopes and geotracers, climate model evaluation
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Kris Karnauskas (he/him/his)

Associate Professor
ATOC and CIRES
Dynamics of the coupled Earth system toward useful predictions of impacts ranging from marine ecosystems to human health
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Jen Kay (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
ATOC and CIRES
Cloud and aerosol processes and their influence on the coupled climate system, recent and projected Arctic sea ice loss, climate model evaluation and improvement using data assimilation and satellite observations, and communicating climate science
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Jianghanyang (Ben) Li

Assistant Professor
ATOC and INSTAAR
Using analytical chemistry and stable isotopic analysis (C, H, O, N, S) to understand the origins and chemical processes of atmospheric trace gases, as well as their roles in impacting global climate and regional air quality.
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Nicole Lovenduski (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor, INSTAAR Interim Director
ATOC and INSTAAR
Marine carbon cycle, ocean climate variability and change, ocean modeling
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Julie Lundquist (she/her/hers)

Professor
ATOC and NREL
Boundary-layer meteorology, numerical weather prediction, large-eddy simulations, renewable energy applications, urban meteorology and climatology
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Julia Moriarty (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
ATOC and INSTAAR
Transport of sediment and nutrients in the coastal ocean; Coupled numerical modeling
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Peter Pilewskie

Professor
ATOC and LASP
Atmospheric radiative transfer; cloud and aerosol remote sensing; radiative energy budget analysis
Cora Randall

Cora Randall (she/her/hers)

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
ATOC and LASP
Satellite remote sensing, middle atmosphere chemistry and transport, energetic particle precipitation, polar mesospheric clouds
Sara Sanchez

Sara Sanchez

Assistant Professor
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Climate dynamics, paleoclimate, tropical climate variability, isotope geochemistry.
Sebastian Schmidt

Sebastian Schmidt

Associate Professor
ATOC and LASP
Atmospheric and surface remote sensing. Radiative energy budget studies from aircraft, space, and from the ground. Development of aircraft measurement strategies and instrumentation. Quantify cloud, aerosol, and gas radiative effects in different regions of the globe through aircraft/satellite observations and radiative transfer calculations.
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Aneesh Subramanian (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor
ATOC
Climate dynamics, predictability, data assimilation, and geophysical fluid dynamics
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Darin Toohey

Professor
ATOC
Observations of aerosols and trace gases in Earth's atmosphere from the ground to the middle stratosphere. Influences on climate, chemistry, and air quality
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O. Brian Toon

Professor
ATOC and LASP
Radiative transfer; cloud physics: atmospheric chemistry; planetary atmospheres
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Xinyue Wang

Assistant Professor
ATOC
Atmospheric and climate dynamics, lower and middle atmosphere interactions, chemistry-climate modeling.
Jeff Weiss

Jeffrey Weiss (he/him/his)

Professor • Department Chair
ATOC
Geophysical turbulence, coherent structures, fluid transport, predictability, stochastic models
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Andrew Winters (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor
ATOC
Synoptic-dynamic meteorology, high-impact weather events, forecast model evaluation, and topics at the weather–climate interface