Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Past CIRES
Visiting Fellows:

2013-2014
2012-2013
2010-2012
2000-2009
1990-1999
1980-1989
1968-1979

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CIRES Visiting Fellows, 2000-2009

2008-2009

Jonathan Bamber
Constraining the Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

David De Haan
Direct Analysis of Reactions Between Glyoxal, Methylglyoxal, Amino Acids and Glycerol During Cloud Processing.

Yue Deng
Assess the impact of non-hydrostatic processes on the response of the thermosphere/ionosphere system to magnetospheric forcing.

Jerome Lave
Mountain evolution in response to tectonic and erosive processes

Anita Rapp
Investigation of the precipitation process in marine stratocumulus clouds.

Melanie Roberts
What organizational models best promote the utilization of university-generated knowledge by society?

2007-2008

Malcolm K. Hughes
Is tree-ring response to climate changing, and if so, why? Application of a process-based model to this problem, with special emphasis on forests in regions of continuous permafrost, and on trees at the highest elevations in the mountains of the western USA.

Rebecca Matichuk
Improving the treatment of aerosols in global and regional models to understand the impacts these aerosols have on human health and climate change.

David Turner
Integration of Remote Sensing and Modeling for Monitoring of Terrestrial Carbon Flux

Hailong Wang
Large-eddy simulations of the impact of aerosols on turbulent dynamics and shallow cumuli in the trade wind boundary layer

Sarah B. Wise
Teaching publically controversial science

2006-2007

Thian Yew Gan
Seasonal Teleconnection between North American Monsoon and SMMR-SSM/I EASE-GRID Snow Water Equivalent Data, and possible detection of climate change impact on North America’s Snowpack

Shari Gearheard
Bridging perspectives of change: Linking Inuit and scientific approaches to understanding arctic environmental change

Neil Glasser
The structure and stability of Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves

Steven W. Leavitt
Tree rings and carbon isotope composition: Indicators of southwestern U.S. drought and changing water-use-efficiency

Sarah Tessendorf
Aerosol impacts on cloud microphysics in simulated deep convective clouds

Ryan Vachon
Documentary film making: celebrating polar science, environments, climates and societies in conjunction with the International Polar Year, and understanding processes controlling patterns of stable isotopes of precipitation

2005-2006

Roya Bahreini
Ambient measurements of size-resolved chemical composition of aerosols using the Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer

Oscar Mesa
Physical Basis of Long Range Persistence of Hydroclimatological Records

Jose Rial
Prediction of future global climate change

Jadwiga (Yaga) H. Richter
Research: Convectively generated gravity waves: comparison between source parameterization and radar data
Outreach: Developing weather and climate educational opportunities for Mile Hi Girl Scouts

(Tim) Andrew Stern
Incisional erosion, isostatic rebound and uplift processes of Mountain ranges

Gunilla Svensson
Modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer in regional and climate models within GEWEX Atmospheric Boundary Layer Study (GABLS)

Michael Tjernström
Arctic boundary-layer and cloud processes, from field experiment data and modeling, with an over-reaching aim to improve formulations of Arctic climate processes in climate models

Kevin Vranes
Examining decision making under uncertainty for climate change and severe storms, water resource management and earthquake mitigation

Cameron Wobus
A study of the links between climate and surface processes, focusing on erosion processes in river systems draining the eastern Colorado Front Range

2004-2005

Domenico Cimini
Micro-, millimeter- and sub-millimeter-wave absorption model study; Passive estimation of rainfall attenuation; Passive measurements in dynamic weather conditions for improving nowcasting

Lisa Dilling
Understanding the use and applicability of carbon cycle science in climate policy development and carbon sequestration

Masato Furuya
Radar Interferometric Exploration of Ground Movements in Remote Area: Southwest Greenland and Northwest India

Jessica Lundquist
Summer Precipitation in the Southwestern United States: Linking long-term longitudinal trends to snow and sea surface temperatures

Sean Yu McLoughlin
The latent enzymatic capabilities of a well-characterized strain of bacteria Escherichia coli

Noah Molotch
Assessing Uncertainty in Alpine and Sub-alpine Snowmelt Simulations

S. P. Satyabala
Seismology & application of Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry to earthquakes and Crustal Dynamics

Robyn Schofield
Retrieval of Cloud Parameters used in the Quantification of the Aerosol Indirect Effect

2003-2004

Carmala Garzione
Late Cenozoic climate forcing from Asian aeolian contributions to the North Pacific

Ann Henderson-Sellers
Examining the use of isotopes (stable & radioactive) as probes and tracers of environmental systems and processes

Pavlos Kollias
An advanced sea-going observing system suitable for the study of marine boundary layer clouds

K. Krishna Kumar
Sensitivity of Indian summer monsoon rainfall and it's variability to Indo-Pacific SST patterns: Some observational and GCM studies

Peter Lawrence
Biosphere and surface hydrology play on weather and climate

Dorrie Panayotou
Biological monitoring and assessment of the health of streams throughout local Boulder and Denver

Andreas Stohl
Deep vertical transport processes affecting the global concentrations of water vapor, aerosols and trace substances

Heikki Tervahattu
Organic coatings on aerosol particles

2002-2003

Dimitar Alargov
Behaviors of Organic Substances in Supercritical Fluids at High Pressure

Simon Brocklehurst
Study Periglacial Hillslopes in Glaciated Environments and Tectonically Active Settings

William Burgos
Effect of Biological Ferric Oxide Dissolution, Uraninite Precipitation and Bacterial Growth on Electrical Resistivity, Seismic Absorption, and Permeability of Soil

Paul Denys
Measure the Vertical Velocity of Tide Gauge Structures and Measure the Uplift of a Mountain Belt

Tara Fortin
Evaluating Uncertainty in Atmospheric Models: Implications for Science and Science Policy

Ute Herzfeld
Study of Ice-surface Features as Indicators of Glaciologic and Climatic Processes, Based on Analysis of Ground and Satellite Data

Edward Walton
Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds

2001-2002

Christopher Aiken
Stochastically Forced Variability of Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Eyal Ben-Dor
Monitoring and Management of Soil Degradation Problems Derived from Soil Structural Crust Processes

James Donaldson
Surface Thermodynamics as well as Rainwater Composition and Sea Surface Coatings

Henrik Kjaergaard
Spectroscopy and Atmospheric Relevance of Water Clusters

Thomas Painter
Spatio-temporal Distribution of Snow Albedo and Snow Covered Area

German Poveda
Spacetime Variability of Soil Moisture and Precipitation in Tropical South America at ENSO Timescales

Bernhard Steinberger
Lithospheric Stresses

Vera Schulte-Pelkum
Imaging Continental Deformation and Crust-Mantle Interaction through Array Analysis of Seismic Wavefields

Carsten Warneke
Oxygenated Biogenic Hydrocarbons in the Atmosphere

2000-2001

Shaleen Jain
Hydrologic Extremes in W. United States- Understanding and Predicting Climate Related Risks

Dana Lane
Stochastic Approaches to Cloud-Radiation

Johnny Lin
Sensitivity of Global Climate Dynamics to Small-scale Phenomena

Jorge Martins
Dynamics of Non-linear Systems

Chris Pursell
Examination of Heterogeneous Chemical Reactions on Ammonium Sulfate Aerosols

David Pyles
Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions

Bernd Sierk
Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy

Leslie Sonder
Significance of Buoyancy Forces for Cenozoic Deformation of Western United States