People

Faculty

Kenny Broad

Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy
Climate-society interaction, environmental policy

Milan Curcic

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ocean Sciences
Air-sea interaction, ocean waves, numerical modeling


William Drennan

Professor, Dept. of Ocean Sciences
Air-sea interaction, turbulence, boundary layer

Hans Graber

Professor, Dept. of Ocean Sciences
Wave dynamics, remote sensing, boundary layer

Brian Haus

Professor and Chair, Dept. of Ocean Sciences
Experimental air-sea interaction, ocean currents

Ben Kirtman

Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
Tropical variability and predictability, coupled GCMs

David Letson

Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy
Economics of extreme weather

Sharan Majumdar

Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
Tropical cyclones, predictability, data assimilation, ensemble techniques

Renato Molina

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy
Environmental and resource economics, economic impacts of natural disasters

David Nolan

Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
Hurricane dynamics, genesis, numerical modeling

Nick Shay

Professor, Dept. of Ocean Sciences
Atmosphere-ocean interaction, upper-ocean dynamics, radar

Brian Soden

Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
Tropical climate change, climate modeling


Research Staff

Benjamin Jaimes de la Cruz

Associate Scientist, Dept. of Ocean Sciences
Hurricane-ocean interactions

Brian McNoldy

Senior Research Associate, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
Model simulations, diagnostics, and validation, hazard communication, hurricane climatology

Connor West

Technical Analyst, CSTARS
Satellite Tasking, Imagery Analysis, and Flood Modeling


Current Graduate Students

Steven Akin

Ph.D. Student, Meteorology & Physical Oceanography
Hurricane intensification, air-sea interactions, upper-ocean dynamics
 

Will Downs

Ph.D. Student, Atmospheric Sciences
 

Quinton Lawton

Ph.D. Student, Atmospheric Sciences
"The Influence of Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves on African Easterly Waves and Tropical Cyclogenesis"
 

Lev Looney

Ph.D. Student, Meteorology & Physical Oceanography
"The Competing Forces of Hurricane-Induced Ocean Cooling" and "NOAA Saildrone Hurricane Mission"
 

Aidan Mahoney

Ph.D. Student, Atmospheric Sciences
 

Samantha Nebylitsa

Ph.D. Student, Atmospheric Sciences
 

Cameron Pine

Ph.D. Student, Atmospheric Sciences

 

Matthew Varkony

Ph.D. Student, Marine Ecosystems & Society
Hurricanes and affordable housing
 

Alexis Wilson

Ph.D. Student, Atmospheric Sciences
Hurricanes, tropical cyclogensis, remote sensing
 

Jimmy Yunge

M.S. Student, Meteorology & Physical Oceanography
Observations, simulations, and stability of eyewall misovortices