Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

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Research Group People

Baylor Fox-Kemper (CV)

Since August, 2007, I have been an assistant professor in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES, more info) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I also teach in the Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (ATOC) and am an affiliate of the Department of Applied Mathematics.

Before coming to Boulder, I worked with Raffaele Ferrari as a research scientist at MIT. Before that, I worked with Geoff Vallis at Princeton and GFDL. I got my Ph.D. from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography working with Paola Rizzoli (at MIT) and Joe Pedlosky (at WHOI). In my pre-oceanographic career, I trained in physics at Reed with Nick Wheeler and at Brandeis with X.-J. Wang.

Researchers

Peter Hamlington

Peter is a research assistant professor in Aerospace Engineering. He has been collaborating on upper ocean turbulence projects since Fall, 2011.

Graduate Students

Scott Bachman

Scott is a grad student who joined the group on this project in the summer of 2009. He comes to our group by way of CU applied math and geology. Scott is a recipient of the 2011 CIRES Graduate Student Fellowship.

Sean Haney

Sean is an ATOC graduate student who started working with the group in Spring 2011.

Katherine McCaffrey

Katie is a CIRES/ESRL fellow in ATOC who has been collaborating since Spring 2010. ATOC 2011.

Stephen Yeager

Steve is an NCAR scientist who is simultaneously working toward his doctorate in oceanography. Steve began collaborating in Spring 2011.

Adrean Webb

Adrean is graduate student in applied math who started working with the group under a CIRES innovative research proposal in the summer of 2008. ATOC Poster Conference, 2008, CIRES Rendezvous, 2009, Waves 2011, IPAM Lake Arrowhead Retreat, 2011. He is now continuing on this project.

Undergraduate Students

Andrew Margolin

Andrew is an undergraduate chemistry major and an atmospheric and oceanic sciences minor. He started with the group in Spring 2009 on this project. Andrew is beginning in Fall 2009 on this project. Andrew was awarded the 2010 Colorado Science Scholarship. Andrew went on a cruise to Drake Passage in Summer 2011, which was profiled in the Antarctic Sun. Andrew will be a grad. student at U. Miami after Summer 2012.

Past Members

Samantha Stevenson

Sam is an ATOC grad student who joined the group as a 2008 CIRES graduate student fellow in the summer of 2008. Sam is now a NASA NESSF fellow. Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology Poster, 2008. ATOC Poster Conference, 2008. 2008 AGU Handout, CIRES Rendezvous, 2009. Sam has recently developed a Wavelet Probability Toolkit for comparing timeseries of data and models. The paper describing this analysis is here. Sam also went on a cruise to measure typhoon wakes in Fall 2010. Sam successfully defended her dissertation in Nov., 2011, and is now at a postdoc with Axel Timmermann.

Luke Van Roekel

Luke joined the group as a post-doc in August, 2010 on this project. Luke is a graduate of Colorado State University, from David Randall's group. His dissertation is here. Luke joined the faculty of Northland College in Fall 2011. We hope that Luke will be back in summers as a visiting scientist.

Bradley Cooper

Bradley was a UROP from Spring 2010. Bradley graduated in mechanical engineering in June 2011 and is now a graduate student in computer science.

Stephanie Kupper

Stephanie is an undergraduate ecology & evolutionary biology major and an atmospheric & oceanic sciences minor. She joined us as a UROP in Spring 2010. Stephanie graduated in June 2011 and now works as a soil and water analyst at Accutest Labs.

Erik Baldwin-Stevens

Erik received his Aerospace Engineering Master's degree in May, 2010. He joined the group and completed his master's thesis on a CIRES Innovative Research Program and a CU Innovative Seed Grant. Erik's aerospace engineering advisor was Kantha. Erik founded the Haines Avalanche Information Center and is a trustee of the the Alaska Avalanche Information Center.

Aaron Zettler-Mann

Aaron Zettler-Mann received his B.A. in Geography, magna cum laude, wiriting his honors thesis with Baylor as advisor.

Theodore Jamieson

Teddy worked with us as an undergraduate math student. He started as a UROP in Fall 2008 and worked on an NSF REU on this project in Spring 2009. Teddy has gone on to become a Criminal Investigator with the Environmental Protection Agency.

Interested in joining?

Potential or current graduate students at the University of Colorado may contact Baylor with questions. They should check out graduate student fellowships, too: NSF, NASA (GSRP and NESSF), Ford Foundation, AMS, DOD NDSEG, DOD SMART, DOE SCGF, ASEE, DOE (GREF, CSGF, and HPCSF), Hertz, NRC RAP, NPSC, Foster scholars, CIRES (GSRF and CIRES/ESRL), and CU Graduate School Summer Fellowship.

Undergraduates interested in research projects can also contact Baylor. Funding may be available through a UROP, an NSF REU, AMS, NOAA Hollings (apply while a sophomore), or DOD SMART fellowship. Summer research opportunites include NREIP.

Postdoctoral investigators interested in research projects can also contact Baylor. Funding may be available through a NSF, NOAA, NRC RAP, Ford Foundation, L'Oreal, or CIRES fellowship.

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