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 by viewing the pages in the block to the right.

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