CGC Class 32

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.

Jhordanne Jones
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  • Proposal Topic: The Subseasonal to Seasonal Predictability of Tropical Cyclone Activity in a Warming Climate
  • PhD Institution: Colorado State University
  • Host: Dr. Daniel R. Chavas, Purdue University
  • Brief Video Overview of Research
Tyler Kukla
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  • Proposal Topic: Land-atmosphere coupling of the pan-Asian Monsoon in Miocene and Quaternary Green Sahara states
  • PhD Institution: Stanford University
  • Host: Dr. Abigail Swann, University of Washington and Dr. Nicholas Siler, Oregon State University
Tianjia (Tina) Liu
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  • Proposal Topic: Sensitivity of Western United States Wildfires to New Climate Extremes: Implications for Public Health and Aviation
  • PhD Institution: Harvard University
  • Host: Dr. James Randerson, University of California, Irvine
  • Brief Video Overview of Research
Channing Prend
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  • Proposal Topic: Regional variability and trends of submesoscale ice-ocean coupling in Southern Ocean marginal ice zones
  • PhD Institution: Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
  • Host: Dr. Georgy Manucharyan, University of Washington and Dr. Andrew Thompson, California Institute of Technology
  • Brief Video Overview of Research
Meghana Ranganathan
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  • Proposal Topic: Bridging flow and fracture in ice sheet models for improved sea-level rise projections
  • PhD Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Host: Dr. Alexander Robel, Georgia Institute of Technology
Germán Vargas Gutierrez
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  • Proposal Topic: A mechanistic framework to forecast vegetation resilience to drought across scales
  • PhD Institution: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  • Host: Dr. William R.L. Anderegg, University of Utah
  • Brief Video Overview of Research
Kathryn Wheeler
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  • Proposal Topic: The connections between leaf phenology and mycorrhizae in a changing world
  • PhD Institution: Boston University
  • Host: Dr. Cesar Terrer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Qindan Zhu
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  • Proposal Topic: Continental-scale OH trends: dominant drivers, underlying processes and future projections
  • PhD Institution: University of California, Berkeley
  • Host: Dr. Arlene Fiore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Brief Video Overview of Research