Staff
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Founding Director (2014-July 2019) Distinguished Professor at Penn State Departments of Meteorology and Statistics Fellow of American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society Laureate of Faculty Scholar Medals for Outstanding Achievement |
Associate Director Professor of Meteorology
618 Walker Building |
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Assistant Director 601A Walker Building |
Assistant Director 624A Walker Building |
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Associate Director Professor of Mathematics and Meteorology 214 McAllister Building
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Associate Director Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Email: amejia@engr.psu.edu |
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Associate Director Professor of Statistics
514C Wartick Lab
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Center Affiliates
(* denotes original science steering committee membership)|
Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences Phone: (814)863-1700 |
Assistant Professor of Statistics Email: samuelbaugh@psu.edu |
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Professor of Water Resources Phone: (814)865-8830 |
Professor of Atmospheric Science Email: wab5217@psu.edu |
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Distinguished Professor of Meteorology Phone: (814)865-3286 |
Professor of Geography Phone: (814)863-0179 |
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Professor of Meteorology Phone: (814)865-2915 |
Professor of Meteorology Phone: (814)863-8601 |
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Associate Professor of Meteorology Phone: (814)863-4636 |
Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics Phone: (814)865-3674 |
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Phone: (814)863-4384 |
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Email: dee5127@psu.edu |
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Professor of Woody Plant Physiology Phone: (814)863-3371 |
Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science Email: jle7@psu.edu |
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Professor of Biology Email: mjf283@psu.edu |
Professor of Climate Dynamics Phone: (814)865-0710 |
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Professor of Meteorology Phone: (814)863-1585 |
Associate Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science Email: mmg62@psu.edu |
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Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Email: sjg6056@psu.edu |
Assistant Professor of Remote Sensing and Geostatistics Phone: (814)865-1596 |
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Professor of Statistics Phone: (814)865-8126 |
Professor of Meteorology Phone: (814)863-1584 |
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Affiliate Assistant Research Professor of Meteorology Phone: (814)865-2951 |
Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Geography, and African Studies Phone: (814)865-0479 |
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Professor of Electrical Engineering Phone: (814)863-8727 |
Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences Phone: (814)865-3207 |
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Professor of Geosciences Phone: (814)865-6718 |
Associate Professor of Meteorology Phone: (814)863-1581 |
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Distinguished Professor of Meteorology Email: sxl31@psu.edu |
Professor of Statistics Phone: (814)863-3074 |
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Assistant Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science Email: lfl5240@psu.edu |
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Phone: (814)867-0151 |
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Associate Professor of Statistics Phone: (814)865-9468 |
Professor of Mathematics Email: xxl12@psu.edu |
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Distinguished Professor of Statistics Phone: (814)865-1555 |
Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Supply Chain Phone: (814)865-0377 |
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Phone: (814)863-2940 |
Associate Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science Email: kal6112@psu.edu |
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Professor of Geography and Information Science and Technology Phone: (814)865-7491 |
Distinguished Professor of Meteorology Phone: (814)863-4075 |
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Department Head and Distinguished Professor of Meteorology Phone: (814)865-9736 |
Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology Email: rmm7011@psu.edu |
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Teaching Professor of Meteorology Email: j2n@psu.edu |
Professor of Oceanography Email: rgn1@psu.edu |
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Assistant Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering Phone: (814)865-8475 |
Associate Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science Email: yyp5033@psu.edu |
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Assistant Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science Email: jfp5948@psu.edu |
Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering Email: craj@psu.edu |
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Professor of Meteorology Phone: (814)863-0791 |
Assistant Professor of Statistics Email: bshaby@psu.edu |
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Phone: (814)863-5844 |
Professor of Geography Phone: (814)865-6693 |
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Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Email: szs27@psu.edu |
Professor of Meteorology Phone: (814)863-3932 |
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Professor of Meteorology Phone: (814)863-7714 |
Professor of Practice, Department of Meteorology Phone: (814)867-4750 |
Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Email: jav1@psu.edu |
Professor of Meteorology Email: jxv7@psu.edu |
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Professor of IST Email: jwang@ist.psu.edu |
Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Email: jb8474@psu.edu |
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Associate Professor of Geosciences Phone: (814)863-6649 |
Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering Email: mdw18@psu.edu |
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Francis R. and Helen M. Pentz Professor of Science Phone: (814)865-1110 |
Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Email: huy25@psu.edu |
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Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Phone: (814)865-8040 |
Professor of Information Sciences and Technology Phone: (814)865-6174 |
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Professor of Meteorology Email: g3y@psu.edu |
Associate Professor of Geography Email: mqy5198@psu.edu |
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Associate Professor of Meteorology and Climate Dynamics Email: cmz5202@psu.edu |
Associate Professor of IST Phone: (814)863-9462 |
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Associate Professor of Communications Phone: (814)865-1023 |
Professor of Mathematics Email: ltz@math.psu.edu |
Graduate Students
Jingyi (Joey) Hu M.S. Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Xingchao Chen) • Tropical Meteorology • Mesoscale Meteorology |
Ryan McMichael Ph.D. Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Steven Greybush) • Planetary Atmospheres • Data Assimilation |
Chin-Hsuan (Sam) Peng Ph.D. Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Xingchao Chen) • Data Assimilation • Tropical Convection |
Chandler Pruett Ph.D. Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Xingchao Chen) • Data Assimilation • Tropical Meteorology |
Jordan Rendon M.S. Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Yunji Zhang) • Data Assimilation • Tropical Cyclone Predictability |
Bruno Rojas Ph.D. Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Anthony Didlake) • Tropical Cyclones |
Ethan Schaefer Ph.D. Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Steven Greybush) • Data Assimilation • Winter Storms |
Christian Spallone M.S. Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Steven Greybush) • Machine Learning • Data Assimilation • Mesoscale Meteorology |
Braedon Stouffer Ph.D. Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Yunji Zhang and Dr. David Stensrud) • Mesoscale Meteorology • Data Assimilation |
Jacob Tindan Ph.D. Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Greg Jenkins) • Aerosol Modeling |
Alice Vendrame Ph.D. Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Steven Greybush) • Planetary Atmospheres • Data Assimilation |
Tengdai Yang Ph.D. Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Xingchao Chen and Dr. Yunji Zhang) • data assimilation |
Zhu (Judy) Yao Ph.D. Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Eugene Clothiaux) • Satellite data assimilation • tropical cyclones |
Song Zhang Ph.D. Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Matthew Kumjian and Dr. Steven Greybush) • Radar meteorology • Winter storms |
ADAPT Group Alumni
Recent Graduates:
Maxwell Katsouros
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Matthew Varela
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Jon Seibert
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Da Fan
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Christopher Hartman
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Katriella Tenembaum
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Man Yau (Joseph) Chan
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Justin Stow
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Noah Polek-Davis
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Maria Morales-Cáez
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Hartzel Gillespie
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Paul Mykolajtchuk
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Chau Lam (Chris) Yu
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Robert Nystrom
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Scott Sieron
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Hans Chen | |
Wenjie Li |
Hui-Wen Lai |
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Yue (Michael) Ying |
Masashi Minamide |
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Yongqiang Sun |
Andrew Thomas |
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Christopher Melhauser |
Erin Munsell | |
Petros Kalogeras |
Glen Hanson M.S., 2016 (Advisor: Dr. Steven Greybush) Impact of Assimilating Surface Pressure Observations from Smartphones: Observing System Simulation Experiments with the PSU WRF-EnKF | |
Dandan Tao Ph.D., 2015 (Advisor: Dr. Fuqing Zhang) Dynamics and Predictability of Tropical Cyclones under Vertical Wind Shear |
Benjamin Green Ph.D., 2015 (Advisor: Dr. Fuqing Zhang) Improving Numerical Weather Forecasts of Tropical Cyclones through a Better Understanding of Surface and Boundary Layer Processes |
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Jon Poterjoy Ph.D., 2014 (Advisor: Dr. Fuqing Zhang) Hybrid data assimilation for tropical cyclone analysis and prediction |
Junhong Wei Ph.D., 2015 (Advisor: Dr. Fuqing Zhang) Gravity waves in moist baroclinic jet-front systems |
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Students, Postdocs, and Visitors:
- Dr. Zhiyong (Ellie) Meng, Visiting Professor from Peking University China (01/2010-07/2010)
- Dr. Jianhua Sun, Visiting Professor from Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Atmospheric Physics (04/2010-10/2010)
- Dr. Juan Fang, Visiting Professor from Nanjing University China (08/2008-02/2010)
- Dr. Xiaoming Hu, postdoctoral scientist (11/2008-08/2010), Adjunct Assistant Professor in the University of Oklahoma
- Dr. Chanh Kieu, postdoctoral scientist (07/2009-01/2010), currently tenured lecturer at Vietnam National University
- Huizhong He, exchange doctoral student from CAMS China (02/2009-01/2010), Ph.D. awarded 12/2010 (currently associate professor at CAMS)
- Meng Zhang, doctoral student (08/2008-11/2010), Ph.D. awarded 12/2010 (currently environmental modeling team lead at IBM China)
- Baoguo Xie, exchange graduate student from Peking University (09/2009-09/2011), currently working in IBM China
- Dr. Xiaqiong (Kate) Zhou, Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist (12/2010-9/2011) from University of Hawaii, currently NCEP
- Dr. Xuyang Ge, Postdoctoral Scientist (sponsored by NOAA through UCAR Visiting Scientist Program) (11/2010-06/2012), currently at University of Hawaii
- Dr. Hongwen Kang, Visiting Professor from Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (11/2011-2/2012)
- Chuanhai Qian, Visiting Scholar, Director of China Marine and Typhoon Prediction Center, CMA (2/2011-2/2012)
- Qilin Wan, Visiting Scholar, Director of China Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology (12/2011-1/2012)
- Yudong Gao, Visiting Scholar, research scientist at China Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology (6/2011-6/2012, 02/2015-02/2016)
- Dr. Daniel Stern, Postdoctoral Scientist (7/2010-12/2012), currently NSF graduate fellow at NCAR
- Dr. Xinghua Bao, visiting graduate student (09/2009-05/2011), Postdoctoral Scientist (08/2011-08/2012), currently research scientist at Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences
- Benkui Tan, visiting professor from Peking University (8/2012-10/2012)
- Yanzhen Chi, Doctoral student, Ph.D. awarded 2013, currently meteorologist at China Fujian Meteorological Bureau
- Zhang Yuanchun, visiting graduate student from Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science (08/2015-11/2015)
- Liang Aimin, visiting scholar from North China ATMB Meteorological Center
- Yanzhen Chi, visiting scholar from China Meteorological Administration (Fujian)
- Dr. Wei Li, postdoctoral researcher (3/2014-9/2014), currently at NCEP
- Dr. Haiwen Liu, visiting professor from Chengdu University of Information Technology, China (11/2013-5/2014)
- Yunji (Jerry) Zhang , visiting graduate student from Peking University (9/2012-9/2014)
- Ye (Amy) Yun, visiting graduate student from Peking University (9/2013-9/2014)
- Dr. Jonathan Poterjoy (doctoral student 8/2009-8/2014), next postdoc at the Advanced Study Program at NCAR, currently faculty, University of Maryland
- Jun Sun, lead forecaster and visiting scholar from Chinese National Meteorological Center
- Lin Dong, senior forecaster and visiting scholar from Chinese Tropical Cyclone Forecast Center
- Xuexing Qiu, deputy director and visiting scholar from Anhui Meteorological Center, China
- Dr. Shoujuan (Jennifer) Shu, visiting professor from Nanjing University
- Dr. Ashford Reyes, visiting graduate student from Howard University, currently meteorologist at Caribbean Institude for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH)
- Dr. Qinghong (Alise) Zhang, Visiting Professor from Peking University (08/2014-08/2015)
- Dr. Xiaodong Tang, Visiting Professor from Nanjing University (08/2014-08/2015)
- Dr. Junhong Wei, doctoral student (08/2009-05/2015), Ph.D. awarded 05/2015. Currently Associate Professor of Sun Yat-sen University, China.
- Dr. Dandan Tao, doctoral student (08/2010-05/2015), Ph.D. awarded 05/2015
- Dr. Benjamin Green, Doctoral strudent, Ph.D. awarded 05/2015, currently research scientist at NOAA/ESRL
- Dr. Xingchao Chen, Visiting Doctoral Student from Nanjing University (05/2015-11/2015)
- Petros Kalogeras, Masters awarded 5/2015
- Glen Hanson, Masters awarded 5/2015
- Seth Saslo, graduate student
- Ling Zhang, Visiting Scholar from Chinese operational typhoon forecast center (05/2015-05/2016)
- Dr. Christopher Melhauser (doctoral student 8/2012-4/2016), currently working in EMC
- Dr. Chunyu Qiu, Visiting Professor from Lanzhou University (CSC scholarship recipient 08/2015-08/2016)
- Mingxin Li, Visiting Doctoral Student from Peking University (CSC scholarship recipient 09/2014-09/2016)
- Yingjian Chen, Visiting Doctoral Student from Tsinghua University (CSC scholarship recipient 10/2015-10/2016)
- Dr. Yicun (Ethan) Zhen, doctoral student (09/2010-09/2016)
- Jingsong Pan, Visiting Scholar from Zhejiang Meteorological Observatory (04/2016-07/2016)
- Dr. Erin Munsell, doctoral student (08/2010-08/2016), Ph.D. awarded 08/2016
- Dr. Yonghui Weng, research associate (08/2008-12/2016)
- Dr. Daigao Teng, Visiting Scholar from Zhejiang Meteorological Observatory (04/2016-01/2017)
- Dr. Ling Huang, Visiting Scholar from Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (01/2017-04/2017)
- Dr. Atsushi Okazaki, Visiting Scholar from RIKEN Japan (04/2017-05/2017)
- Eun-Gyeong Yang, Visiting student from Yonsei University, Korean (03/2017-07/2017)
- Yan Wang, Visiting student from Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (05/2017-07/2017)
- Dr. Sourav Taraphdar, Post-doctoral scholar (2015/07-2017/06)
- Dr. Tonghua Su, Visiting scholar from Fujian Meteorological Bureau, China (10/2016-10/2017)
- Dr. Yu Shu, Visiting scholar from Jiangsu Meteorological Bureau, China (04/2017-10/2017)
- Lei Zhu, Visiting Doctoral Student from Peking University (CSC scholarship recipient 08/2015-08/2017)
- Dr. Tinghai Ou, Visiting Scholar from University of Gothenburg, Sweden (08/2017-09/2017)
- Dr. Yongqiang Sun, doctoral student (08/2012-08/2017), Ph.D. awarded 08/2017
- Su (Simon) Liu, Visiting doctoral student from Nanjing University (CSC scholarship recipient 10/2015-11/2017)
- Yanting Ye, Visiting doctoral student from Beijing Normal University (CSC scholarship recipient 09/2015-09/2017)
- Dr. Jie Ma, Visiting scholar from China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China (08/2017-08/2018)
- Dr. Yongxiang Zhang, Visiting scholar from China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China (08/2017-08/2018)
- Jie He, Visiting student from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China (10/2017 - 08/2020)
- Andrew Thomas, master student (08/2016-12/2017)
- Dr. Hong Ying, Visiting scholar from China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China (11/2017-05/2018)
- Dr. Jiaolan Fu, Visiting scholar from China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China (02/2018-02/2019)
- XiaoFei Li , Visiting doctoral student from Peking University Beijing, China (03/2018-09/2018)
- Dr. Dan Wu, Visiting scholar from Nanjing University, China (04/2018-03/2019)
- Yue (Michael) Ying, Ph.D student (2012-05/2018)
- Dr. Huaning Dai, Visiting scholar from Nanjing University, China (07/2018-08/2018)
- Dr. Dandan Tao, Post-doctoral Scholar and ADAPT center assistant (2015-07/2018)
- Dr. Yu Du, Visiting scholar from Sun Yat-sen University, China (07/2018-08/2018)
- Dr. Masashi Minamide, Ph.D student (09/2014-05/2018)
- Wenjie Li, Masters student (01/2017-08/2018)
- Hui-Wen Lai, Masters student (08/2014-08/2018)
- Dr. Hans Chen, Ph.D student (09/2013-08/2018)
- Seungyoon Baek, Visiting master student from Seoul National University, Korean (10/07/2018-10/25/2018)
- Negin Hayatbini, Visiting Doctoral student, University of California, Irvin (11/07/2018-11/18/2018)
- Dr. Weizhong Zheng, Visiting scholar from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | NOAA · National Weather Service, USA (01/12/2019-01/19/2019)
- Dr. Zhiyong Meng, Visiting scholar from Peking University, China (01/12/2019-01/27/2019)
- Dr. Moussa Gueye, postdoctoral scholar (9/2018-6/2019), currently faculty at University of Kaolack, Senegal
- Dr. Tingting Qian, Visiting Scholar from Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences,China (02/25/19 - 08/24/2019)
- Lorenzo Minola, Visiting Ph.D Student from University of Gothenburg, Sweden (03/04/2019 - 05/02/2019)
- Alejandro Hermoso, Visiting Ph.D. Student from University of the Balearic Islands, Spain (04/2019-05/2019)
- Dr. Lingli Zhou, Visiting scholar from Zhejiang meteorological observatory. Hangzhou, China (05/10/2019 - 08/2020)
- Dr. Junhong Wei, Visiting scholar from Sun Yat-Sen University, China (06/29/2019 - 07/28/2019)
- Dr. Yu Du, Visiting scholar from Sun Yat-Sen University, China (07/14/2019 - 07/28/2019)
- Dr. James Ruppert, Assistant Research Professor, Currently Assistant Professor, School of Meteorology of University of Oklahoma (10/2018-12/2020)
- Dr. Yinghiu Lu, Post-doctoral Scholar and assistant research proffessor, currently associate professor in Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University,China (07/2017-12/2020)
- Dr. Robert Nystrom, doctoral student, Ph.D awarded 08/2020, currently Postdoctoral Fellow at NCAR (07/2015 - 08/2020)
- Dr. Scott Sieron, graduated student, Masters awarded 2013, Ph.D awarded 12/2019 (2013-2019)
- Dr. Scott Sieron, Post Doctoral Scholar, currently Support Scientist of I. M. Systems Group Inc. (IMSG) (01/2020-08/2020)
- Dr. Chau Lam (Chris) Yu, doctoral student, Ph.D awarded 08/2020, currently Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, Albany, NY (2016-2020)
- Dr. Atsushi Okazaki, postdoctoral scholar (7/2019-2/2021), currently faculty at Hirosaki University, Japan
- Dr. Yan (Elena) Wang, postdoctoral scholar (1/2020-3/2021), currently tenured researcher at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dr. Hartzel Gillespie, doctoral student, Ph.D. awarded 09/2021, currently postdoc at LPI
- Maria Morales-Cáez, Masters student, M.S. awarded 10/2021
- Zhifang Chen, Center Assistant, 2018-2021
- Paul Mykolajtchuk, M.S. awarded 6/2021
- Noah Polek-Davis, M.S. awarded 5/2022
- Justin Stow, Ph.D. awarded 6/2022
- Joseph Chan, Ph.D. awarded 9/2022, faculty at Ohio State University
- Chenli Wang, Visiting scholar from Nanjing University
- Katriella Tenembaum, M.S. awarded 2023
- Ben Townsend, Masters student, Geography
- Chris Hartman, Ph.D. awarded 2024
- Keenan Eure, Ph.D. awarded 2024, currently postdoc at NOAA
- Da Fan, Ph.D. awarded 2024
- Steven Rearden, M.S. student
- Nicholas Barron, Ph.D. awarded 2024
- Maxwell Katsouros, M.S. awarded 2025
- Matthew Varela, M.S. awarded 2025


Fuqing Zhang (DIED UNEXPECTEDLY ON FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2019)
Steven J. Greybush
Xingchao Chen
Yunji Zhang
John Harlim
Alfonso Mejia
Le Bao
Richard Alley
Sam Baugh
Elizabeth Boyer
William Bristow
William H. Brune
*Guido Cervone
*Eugene E. Clothiaux
*Kenneth J. Davis
Anthony C. Didlake
Qiang Du
*Christopher J. Duffy
Donald Ebeigbe
David Eissenstat
Jenni Evans
Matthew Ferrari
Chris E. Forest
Jose D. Fuentes
Melissa Gervais
Samuel Grauer
Helen Greatrex
Murali Haran
Jerry Y. Harrington
Amy K. Huff
Gregory Jenkins
Tim Kane
James F. Kasting
Klaus Keller
Matthew R. Kumjian
Sukyoung Lee
*Jia Li
Laifang Li
Li Li
Qunhua Li
Xiantao Li
Runze Li
Dennis K. J. Lin
Xiaofeng Liu
Kelly Lombardo
Alan MacEachren
Michael E. Mann
Paul Markowski
Romit Maulik
Jon Nese
Raymond Najjar
Renee Obringer
Ying Pan
John Peters
Cibin Raj
Yvette Richardson
Ben Shaby
Chaopeng Shen
Erica Smithwick
Sanjay Srinivasan
David R. Stauffer
*David J. Stensrud
David W. Titley
Jose Ventura
Johannes Verlinde
James Z. Wang
John Wang
Christelle Wauthier
Mort Webster
Jinchao Xu
Hui Yang
Tao Yao
John Yen
George Young
Manzhu Yu
Colin Zarzycki
*Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang
Bu Zhong
*Ludmil Zikatanov
Nicholas Barron
Keenan Eure