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Current Personnel

Name

Position

Background

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Professor

Senior Research Scientist

PhD - U. Maryland, College Park

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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

PhD - U. Alabama 

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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

PhD - U. Tokyo

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Research Associate Professor

PhD - Florida State U.

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Finley Hay-Chapman

Graduate Research Assistant (PhD)

BS - U. Wisconsin-Madison

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Briah' Davis

Graduate Research Assistant (PhD)

MS - Howard U.

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Nazanin Tavakoli

Graduate Research Assistant (PhD)

MS - Sharif U. Tech.

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Cassandra Calderella

PhD Student

MS - U. Maryland Baltimore County

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Tahmidul Azom Sany

Graduate Research Assistant (PhD)

MS - Shahjalal U. Sci. Tech.

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Former Staff

Name

Former Position(s)

Period

Currently

Eunkyo Seo

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

2020-2022

Abedeh Abdolghafoorian 

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

2018-2021

AccuWeather

Zhichang Guo

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Research Scientist

Research Associate Professor

2002-2004

2005-2013

2014-2019

NOAA/NCEP/EMC

Liang Chen

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

2015-2018

U. Nebraska, Lincoln

Subhadeep Halder

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

2013-2016

Banaras Hindu U. (India)

Ahmed Tawfik

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

2012-2015

LabCorp

Roshan Shrestha

Research Scientist

2012-2014

NOAA/NCEP/EMC

Sanjiv Kumar

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

2011-2013

Auburn U.

Jiangfeng Wei

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Research Scientist

2007-2009

2009-2012

Nanjing U. of Information Science and Technology (China)

Li Zhang

Research Scientist

2007-2010

NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSL

Mei (Maggie) Zhao

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Research Scientist

2002-2004

2005-2007

Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)

Xiang Gao

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Research Scientist

2002-2005

2005

MIT

Vasu Misra

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Research Scientist

1999-2001

2001-2008

Florida State U.

Liqin Tan

Research Staff

1999-2002

NOAA/NCEP/EMC

Oreste Reale

Research Scientist

1999-2001

NASA/GSFC/GMAO

Venugopal Vuruputur

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

1998-2001

IIS Bangalore (India)

Adam Schlosser

Research Scientist

1997-2001

MIT

Fanrong Zeng

Research Staff

1997-1999

NOAA/GFDL

Former Students

Name

Degree

Date

Currently

Hsin Hsu

PhD in Climate Dynamics, GMU

2022

Princeton University

David Benson

PhD in Climate Dynamics, GMU

2022

UCAR/CPAESS and NOAA/CPO 

Holly Norton

PhD in Climate Dynamics, GMU

2018

NASA/RESS

Jiexia Wu

PhD in Climate Dynamics, GMU

2018

Beijing Piesat Information 
Technology Co. Ltd. (China)

Christina Benzo

BS in Atmospheric Science, GMU

2018

Ecole Polytechnique (France)

Ako Heidari

PhD student in Geography and Geoinformation Science, GMU

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Andrew Badger

PhD in Climate Dynamics, GMU

2015

NASA/GSFC/HSL

Li Xu

PhD in Climate Dynamics, GMU

2011

NOAA/NCEP/CPC

Alok Sahoo

PhD in Geography and Geoinformation Science, GMU

2008

AIG

Elfrun Lehmann

MS in Computational Science, GMU

2004

Freie U. Berlin (Germany)

Arief Sudradjat

PhD in Civil Engineering, UMCP

2003

Bandung Institute of Technology (Indonesia)

Oreste Reale

PhD in Meteorology, UMCP

1996

NASA/GSFC/GMAO

Visitors / Others

Name

Role

Date

Affiliation

Eunkyo Seo

Visiting Scientist

2022

Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK)

Emma Robinson

Visiting Scientist

2015

Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK)

Bart van den Hurk

Visiting Scientist

2011

KNMI (Netherlands)

Stefano Materia

Visiting PhD Student

2007-2008

INGV (Italy)

Liming Zhou

PhD student in Geography and Geoinformation Science, GMU

2007-2008

Georgia Tech U.

Bret Holbert

Summer High School Intern

2005

Montgomery Blair H.S.

Jeffrey Dunn

Summer High School Intern

2004

Montgomery Blair H.S.

Tristan D'Orgeval

Visiting PhD Student

2003

U. Paris VI (France)

Leandro Della Vedova de Oliveira Pinto

Visiting PhD Student

2001

U São Paulo (Brazil)

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