CGC Class 31

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.

Yue Dong
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  • Research Topic: Understanding the pattern of recent tropical Pacific sea-surface temperature trends
  • PhD Institution: University of Washington
  • Host: Dr. Lorenzo Polvani, Columbia University
Henri Drake
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  • Research Topic: Parameterization of Bottom Mixed Layer Eddies and Their Impact on Climate
  • PhD Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • Host: Dr. Sonya Legg, Princeton University
Brittany Hupp
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  • Research Topic: Utilization of Northern California Current Historical Records for Paleoproxy Development
  • PhD Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Host: Dr. Jennifer Fehrenbacher, Oregon State University
Laura Larocca
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  • Research Topic: An Arctic-wide assessment of glacier and ice cap lifespans
  • PhD Institution: Northwestern University
  • Host: Dr. Darrell Kaufman, Northern Arizona University
Lindsay McCulloch
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  • Research Topic: Can canopy gaps resolve the large uncertainty in tropical forest nitrogen cycling and carbon capture?
  • PhD Institution: Brown University
  • Host: Dr. Ben Taylor, Harvard University
Mukund Palat Rao
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  • Research Topic: The fate of forest carbon from photosynthesis to biomass under drought and climate change
  • PhD Institution: Columbia University
  • Host: Dr. Troy Magney, University of California, Davis
Lettie Roach
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  • Research Topic: Hemispheric contracts in the seasonal cycle of sea ice
  • PhD Institution: Victoria University of Wellington
  • Host: Dr. Ian Eisenman, University of California, San Diego
Katherine Siegel
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  • Research Topic: Impacts of forest management types on wildfire severity, ecological assemblages, climate change resistance, ecosystem processes, and socially vulnerable communities in the western US
  • PhD Institution: University of California, Berkeley
  • Host: Dr. Laura Dee, University of Colorado, Boulder
Barbara Wortham
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  • Research Topic:  Assessing the role of global CO2 variability on plant function throughout the last 55ka in California
  • PhD Institution: University of California, Davis
  • Host: Dr. Daniel Stolper and Dr. Todd Dawson, University of California, Berkeley