People of the Chu Research Group
Part of the Chu Research Group on Boulder's Campus
Rear row from left: Zhibin Yu (PhD student), Bo Tan (PhD student), and Cao Chen (PhD student)
Front row from left: Wentao Huang (Res. Scientist II), John Smith (PhD student), Katrina Bossert (PhD student), Xian Lu (Postdoc Visiting Fellow), and Xinzhao Chu
Brendan Roberts (Winter-over lidar engineer) and Weichun Fong (PhD student) conducting lidar observations at McMurdo Station. Photo taken in September 2012 at -22°F ambient temperature and -52°F wind chill.
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Senior Personnel
Prof. Xinzhao Chu (Xinzhao.Chu@Colorado.edu, 303-492-3280, CIRES 241)
Faculty
Dr. Chu explores advanced spectroscopy principles, develops new lidar technologies, and studies the fundamental physical and chemical processes that govern the structure and dynamics of the whole atmosphere. She is a Fellow of CIRES that is funded by CU and NOAA, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. She teaches graduate classes of spectroscopy and lidar remote sensing, and undergraduate classes ASEN 3300 "Electronics and Communications" and ASEN 3113 “Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer”.
Dr. Wentao Huang (Wentao.Huang@Colorado.edu, 303-735-1466, CIRES 1B46)
Research Scientist of CIRES
Dr. Huang’s research interests are laser remote sensing technology and atmospheric science. He is a member of the lidar Consortium Technology Center (CTC). He focuses on developing and applying innovative laser and spectroscopy technologies in lidars. He was instrumental in the successful development of several lidars and the successful deployment of an iron Boltzmann lidar to McMurdo, Antarctica. He is studying the metal chemistry in the upper atmosphere with lidar observations and numerical modeling.
Dr. Xian Lu (Xian.Lu@colorado.edu, 1B56)
Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow of CIRES
I am interested in characterizing gravity waves and thermal tides in the polar region and accessing their impacts on polar dynamics, space weather and the vertical coupling of the whole atmosphere, by using lidar, radar and satellite observations. Gravity wave and tidal models in the polar region are invoked to interpret the observed wave characteristics, locate wave sources, and identify underlying mechanisms. Through comparing these observations with whole atmosphere models such as WAM (NOAA) and WACCM (NCAR), my goal is to validate model simulations and meanwhile provide observational evidences to constrain the model parameters associated with gravity wave and tides. Incorporating observations and models is intended to help better understanding the wave effects on the space environment and predicting the resulted space variabilities. My study will be focused on, but not limited to the dynamics of the polar region. Low and middle latitudes will also be covered to support my research.
Graduate Students
Bo Tan (Bo.Tan@Colorado.edu or botan.pku@gmail.com, 303-735-1575, CIRES 1B15A)
Mr. Bo Tan is a PhD student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. He is finishing his PhD on lidar, satellite and modeling studies of global teleconnection pattern and the cold problem in general circulation models.
John A. Smith (john.anthony.smith@gmail.com, 303-492-6713, CIRES 1B49)
Mr. John Smith is a PhD student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. He has completed a 3-year NASA Fellowship researching the viability of a complementary molecular Doppler wind lidar instrument for the next generation Fe-Doppler lidar currently in development. He is making numerous innovations in lidar technologies for global wind, temperature and species measurements.
Zhibin Yu (zhibintkm@gmail.com, 303-735-1575, CIRES 1B15A)
Mr Zhibin Yu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. He was the first winter-over student for the McMurdo lidar campaign and braved through the Antarctic winter in 2011. He is modeling the thermospheric Fe layers observed at McMurdo, Antarctica.
Weichun Fong (weichun.fong@colorado.edu)
Mr. Fong is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. He was instrumental in the successful development of the STAR sodium Doppler lidar. He is working at McMurdo, Antarctica for new lidar observations and science discoveries.
Cao Chen (cao.chen86@gmail.com)
Mr. Cao (Chris) Chen is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. He won the first place prize in CEDAR student poster competition at Santa Fe, NM in June 2012. He is analyzing the McMurdo lidar data for polar atmospheric dynamics.
Katrina Bossert (katrina.bossert@gmail.com)
Brendan Roberts (brendan.roberts@colorado.edu)
Mr. Brendan Roberts earned his Master of Science degree in May 2012 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the second winter-over lidar engineer who has operated an Fe Boltzmann lidar at McMurdo through the Antarctic winter in 2012 and collected numerous valuable data.
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