Current Research and ATOC Students
Below is a list of the current ATOC faculty members, other CU faculty members, and researchers in the Boulder area who work with graduate student including a brief description of each person's research interests, contact information, and current ATOC students working with them. Follow these links to view more detailed descriptions of their research.
| RESEARCH ADVISOR | RESEARCH INTERESTS | CONTACT | GRAD STUDENTS |
| Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) Core Faculty |
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| Linnea Avallone ATOC /LASP |
Stratospheric and tropospheric halogen chemistry; field studies of tropospheric chemistry and transport. | 303-492-5913 303-492-2546 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Samuel Dorsi Anna Luebke Heather Walsh |
| John Cassano ATOC/CIRES |
Polar meteorology, numerical modeling | 303-492-2221 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Alice DuVivier Shelley Knuth Michael Stone |
| Katja Friedrich ATOC |
Radar meteorology; complex terrain meteorology | 303-492-2041 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Joshua Aikins Evan Kalina |
| Weiqing Han ATOC |
Dynamics of the tropical ocean circulation, climate variability and change, Strait dynamics. | 303-735-3079 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Ricahrd Bateman Jessica Kenigson |
| Nicole Lovenduski ATOC/INSTAAR |
Marine carbon cycle, ocean climate variability and change, ocean modeling | 303-492-7831 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Natalie Freeman |
| Julie Lundquist ATOC/NREL |
Boundary-layer meteorology, numerical weather prediction, large-eddy simulations, renewable energy applications, urban meteorology and climatology. | 303-492-8932 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Matthew Aitken (PHYS) Clara StMartin Brian Vanderwende |
| David Noone ATOC/CIRES |
Global climate modeling, water and carbon cycle, large scale atmosphere dynamics | 303-735-6073 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Scott Gregory Aleya Kaushik Jesse Nusbaumer Adriana Raudzens-Bailey John Wong |
| Peter Pilewskie ATOC/LASP |
Atmospheric radiative transfer; cloud and aerosol remote sensing; radiative energy budget analysis | 303-492-5724 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Andrew Kren Sam LeBlanc Shi Song |
| Cora Randall ATOC/LASP |
Satellite remote sensing, atmospheric chemistry and transport, emphasizing the polar stratosphere and mesosphere. | 303-492-8208 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Matthias Brakebusch Laura Holt Ethan Peck |
| Darin Toohey ATOC |
Aerosols, trace species in the troposphere and stratosphere | 303-735-0002 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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| Brian Toon ATOC/LASP |
Radiative transfer; cloud physics: atmospheric chemistry; planetary atmospheres | 303-492-1534 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Megan Bela Erik Larson Chris Maloney Eric Wolf Pengfei Yu Yunqian Zhu |
| Jeff Weiss ATOC |
Geophysical fluid dynamics; predictability and turbulence | 303-492-7263 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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| Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (ASEN) | |||
| William Emery | Remote sensing; physical oceanography | 303-492-8592 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Tomoko Koyama |
| Steve Nerem ASEN/CIRES |
Satellite altimetry, sea level change, Earth gravity field determination, time variations of the Earth's gravity field, planetary geodesy, precision orbit determination, astrodynamics. | 303-492-6721 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Lynda Bell |
| Jeff Thayer ASEN |
Remote sensing of the atmosphere and ionosphere using lidar and radar techniques; optical systems and design; atmospheric and space physics; geophysical fluid dynamics, electrodynamics, and plasma physics. | 303-492-1764 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Ryan Neely |
| Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry (CHEM) | |||
| Jose Jimenez CHEM/CIRES |
Atmospheric chemistry; field measurements; aerosol mas spectrometry; advanced instrument development | 303-492-3557 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Amber Ortega |
| Margaret Tolbert CHEM/CIRES |
Atmospheric chemistry; heterogeneous reactions | 303-492-3179 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Danielle Nuding |
| Rainer Volkamer CHEM |
Atmospheric chemistry; field and laboratory measurements; development of optical spectroscopic instruments; remote sensing from ground, ships and aircraft | 303-492-1843 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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| Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) | |||
| Oleg Godin CIRES/NOAA |
Theory of wave propogation in inhomogenous and moving media | 303-497-6588 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Cheng Lu |
| Matthew Shupe CIRES/NOAA |
Polar clouds, remote sensing, boundary layer processes | 303-497-6471 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Ben Castellani |
| Colorado Research Associates (CoRA) | |||
| Joan Alexander CoRA |
Wave dynamics and convection, and remote sensing of atmospheric waves | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Ji-Eun Kim Claudia Stephan |
| Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) | |||
| Detlev Helmig INSTAAR |
Surface-Atmosphere Interactions, Atmospheric Chemistry and Transport, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Polar Atmospheric Chemistry, Oceanic Gas Fluxes. | 303-492-2509 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Patrick Boylan Brian Seok Brie VanDam |
| Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) | |||
| Lynn Harvey LASP |
Validation of the WACCM general circulation modeled with "unified" satellite occulation data. Tracer transport by coherent vortex structures. | 303-492-2920 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Jeff France |
| National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) | |||
| Teresa Campos NCAR |
NSF Community airborne in situ mixing ratio and flux instrumentation development; impact of cloud processes and dynamics on tracer transport and transformations; climatology of tropospheric CO, CO2, water vapor, and ozone mixing ratios | 303-497-1048 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Carolyn Farris |
| John Gille NCAR/CLAS |
Remote sensing of the upper atmosphere | 303-497-8062 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Tanya Peevey |
| Elisabeth Holland NCAR |
Continental and global nitrogen deposition patterns and their impacts on carbon cycling. | 303-497-1433 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Sherri Heck |
| James Pinto NCAR |
Short-term forecasting, mesoscale meteorology, boundary layer processes, cloud microphysics, using/developing UAV technologies for sampling local atmospheric processes. | 303-497-2874 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Cody Phillips |
| Tammy Weckwerth NCAR |
Mesoscale meteorology, organized structures within the boundary layer, relationship between boundary layer and the initiation of thunderstorms. | 303-497-8790 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Tracy Emerson |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | |||
| Terry Bullett NOAA |
NOAA Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division: Ionospheric Sounding Specialist, Ionosonde Development & Operations, MIRRION | 303-497-4788 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Justin Mabie |
| Joost de Gouw NOAA |
NOAA Chemical Sciences Division | 303-497-3878 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Rui Li |
| David Kingsmill NOAA |
NOAA Physical Sciences Division | 303-497-4593 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Raul Valenzuela |