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CGC Class 17

At CPAESS we facilitate the NOAA Climate and Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral program. Our goal is to train the next generation of leading researchers needed for climate studies. See more information about the program.

Larissa Back
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  • Research Topic: Deep convection
  • PhD Institution: University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences
  • Hosts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kerry Emanuel
  • Appointment: 2007-2009
  • Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Website(link is external)
Timothy Bertram
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  • Research Topic: Aerosols – cloud interaction
  • PhD Institution: University of California, Chemistry
  • Hosts: University of Washington, Tom Ackerman, Joel Thornton
  • Appointment: 2007-2009
  • Current Position: Professor of Chemistry and Affiliate Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison
  • Website(link is external)
Gang Chen
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  • Research Topic: Climate dynamics – jet streams
  • PhD Institution: Princeton University, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
  • Host: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alan Plumb
  • Appointment: 2007-2009
  • Current Position: Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Website(link is external)
Benjamin Cook
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  • Research Topic: Dust
  • PhD Institution: University of Virginia, Environmental Science
  • Hosts: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Richard Seager & Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Ron Miller
  • Appointment: 2007-2009
  • Current Position: Research Physical Scientist, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, National Aeronautcs and Space Adminstration (NASA); Adjunct Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
  • Website(link is external)
Delphine Farmer
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  • Research Topic: Atmospheric chemistry—aerosols
  • PhD Institution: University of California, Berkeley, Chemistry
  • Host: University of Colorado at Boulder, Jose-Luis Jimenez
  • Appointment: 2007-2009
  • Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University
  • Website(link is external)
Nicole Lovenduski
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  • Research Topic: CO2 biogeochem
  • PhD Institution: University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric & Oceanic Science
  • Host: Colorado State University, Takamitsu Ito
  • Appointment: 2007-2009
  • Current Position: Associate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and Fellow with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Website(link is external)
Martin Medina-Elizalde
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  • Research Topic: Paleoclimate (stalaginites)
  • PhD Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara, Marine Science
  • Host: University of Massachusetts, Stephen Burns
  • Appointment: 2007-2009
  • Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, Auburn University
  • Website(link is external)
Hyodae Seo
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  • Research Topic: Ocean/atmosphere interactions
  • PhD Institution: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Climate
  • Host: University of Hawaii, Manoa, Shang-Ping Xie
  • Appointment: 2007-2009
  • Current Position: Associate Scientist, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • Website(link is external)
Rachel Stanley-Brown
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  • Research Topic: Carbon cycle
  • PhD Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Chemical Oceanography
  • Host: Princeton University, Michael Bender
  • Appointment: 2007-2009
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, Wellesley College and Adjunct Professor, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • Website(link is external)
Tana Wood
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  • Research Topic: Soil biogeochem
  • PhD Institution: University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences
  • Host: University of California, Berkeley, Whendee Silver
  • Appointment: 2007-2009
  • Current Position: Research Ecologist, USDA International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
  • Website(link is external)