Ankur Desai
e-mail: adesai@essc.psu.edu

ALUMNUS CONTACT

Ankur has recently finished his Ph.D. while working with Dr. Ken Davis. He studied surface-atmosphere exchange, boundary layer processes, and the regional exchange of carbon dioxide between forest ecosystems and the atmosphere. He has been offered and has accepted an NCAR Advanced Study Program (ASP) Postdoctoral Fellowship starting in mid-August 2006, which he will complete before starting an Assistant Professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in 2007.

Jonathan Petters
e-mail: jlp500@psu.edu

I'm a Ph.D student working with Dr. Clothiaux, currently working on the accuracy of simple radiative transfer approximation used in climate models and large-eddy simulations.

Nathaniel Johnson
e-mail ncj107@psu.edu

My current research interests include statistical pattern recognition, particularly with self-organizing maps, and the dynamics of large-scale teleconnection patterns. I intend to use the knowledge and tools I have developed to gain understanding of climate variability over the Arctic, including variability in sea ice extent and cloud cover. I hope to contribute to our understanding of the alarming changes that have been occurring in that part of the world.

I am working toward a Ph.D. with Dr. Frank, studying tropical cyclogenesis and interactions with the environment using the WRF research model and real data.

I recently completed my M.S. with Dr. Ray Najjar, investigating salinity trends in the Chesapeake Bay, and I am continuing on for a PhD in the department. My research interests include computer modeling of geophysical systems and assessment of human impacts on the climate.

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