Former Students
My former post-docs, undergraduate and graduate students, their research, and where they went
Presentations authored or co-authored by my students
Undergraduate students
Vicky Espinoza, undergraduate student, summer 2012. Email: vicky-sue@att.net She anlayzes PM2.5 speciation for Fairbanks.
Julian Childs-Walker, undergraduate student, summer 2012. Email: childswj@carleton.edu He examines the duirnal and annual course of PM2.5-concentrations in Fairbanks.
Laura Fleming, 2011. Implementation of a temperature dependency of the Hueckle parameters in MADE/SORGAM
Bret Potts, 2011. Implementation of a temperature dependency of the Hueckle parameters in MADE/SORGAM
Kelcy Brunner, spring 2010 - summer 2011. Undergraduate research. Kelcy worked on wind energy assessment in spring 2010 and on air quality issues summer 2010 to summer 2011.
Todd Fortun, 2009. Investigations on the sensitivity of predicted air quality to the uncertainty in anthropogenic emissions.Now at St. Cloud University.
Jessica Beres, 2009. Comparison of WRF model outputs and MODIS image products for cloud presence: A case study.Now at Marshall University.
David Henderson, 2007. Evaluation of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model over Siberia, B.S. at PennState University 2008, now at CSU for a M.S..
Anastasia Gennady Yanchilina, 2006. Snow parameter caused uncertainty of predicted snow metamorphism processes, Now at: Creighton University, Nebraska. B.S. in meteorology in 2009. Now continuing for a M.S.
Anne Cherry, 2003. Evaluation of MM5 simulations with HTSVS with and without inclusion of soil-frost parameterizationDepartment of Physics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
Pamela Spier, 2003. Arctic region evaluation of the Hydro-Thermodynamic Soil Vegetation Scheme (HTSVS) Finished with a BS in Atmospheric Science from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Now scientific programmer at a software company in NY
Amy Rulo, 2002. Uncertainty analysis on the soil physical and plant physiological parameters used in HTSVS finished with a BS from University of Colorado at Denver, now employed as a mathematician in Las Vegas, email: ajrulo 'at' hotmail.com
Leslie Prochaska, 2002. Uncertainty analysis on the soil physical and plant physiological parameters used in OSULSM Now at University of North Texas, email: spicaleslie 'at' yahoo.com
Mark Olson, 2001-2002. Investigations on the impact of aerosol release and heat island effect on downwind precipitation MS University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Statistics, now UAF PhD student for Natural Resources.
Manuela Barth, 1999-2000. Recharge of ground water in climate models. Continued for a Ph.D., worked at Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, anmanu 'at' gmx.de
Claudia Stolle, 1997-1998. Diplom at University of Toulouse III, Ph.D. at Institute for Meteorology, University Leipzig, Post-doc at GFZ Potsdam, now scientist at Technical University of Denmark, email: cst ' at' space-dtu.dk
Sebastian Schmidt, 1997-1998. Development of an emission module for GESIMA within the framework of TFS Got a position at Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig
Graduate students
Theodor Fathauer, MS in Atmospheric Sciences, 2005-2012, accepted into the Ph.D. program in 2013, deceased in 2013. Ted Fathauer irecieved his Bachellor of Sciences degree from the University of Chicago. At UAF, he investigated the relation between pollen and weather for his MS degree, while also working as a weather forecaster at the NWS Fairbanks office. He was accepted into the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program of UAF to pursue research on the historical development of meteorological measurements in Alaska under my guidance. He deceased way to early in 2013.
Huy N.Q. Tran, Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, 2009-2012 Huy Ngujan Quang developed an air quality advisory tool that permits interpolation of mobile PM2.5 measurements into unmonitored neighborhoods.
Trang Tran, 2009-2012. Trang investigated the impact of changes in ship emissions and wildfire emissions. She changed her major to environmental chemistry. She stems from Vietnam and obtained her MS from AIT.
Debasish Pai Mazumder, Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, 2005-2009. He received his bachelor degree in physics in 2002 from the University of Calcutta, India. He obtained his master degree in atmospheric science in 2004 from the same university. His thesis dealt with on research on the kinetic energy spectra of turbulence in the thermally stratified atmospheric surface layer. He worked at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi as a project associate on mesoscale modeling in 2005. He received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Alaska, Department of Atmospheric Sciences for a thesis entitled A concept to access the performance of a permafrost model run fully coupled with a climate model. After graduation he accepted a post-doc position at University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Canada. In 2012, he joined the NCAR.
Stacy E. Porter, MS in atmospheric sciences, 2007-2009. Phi Kappa Pi. Stacy received her B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences in December 2006 at the University of North Carolina in Asheville. She worked as a documentation analyst at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC. She earned a M.S. degree in atmospheric sciences from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Atmospheric Sciences with a thesis entitled Investigation of the impact of ship emissions on atmospheric composition and deposition in remote, coastal landscapes of southwest Alaska. She now is pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Ohio.
Morgan E. Brown, now Morgan B. Yarker, M.S., 2006-2008. She recieved her M.S. in atmospheric sciences for a thesis entitled Impact of local external forcing of the 2006 Augustine Volcano eruption on regional weather conditions. Now at University of Iowa for a Ph.D. in science education
Zhao Li, PhD in atmospheric sciences, 2002-2007. Zhao received her Ph.D. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, for a thesis entitled Investigations on the impacts of land-cover changes and/or increased CO2concentrations on four regional water cycles and their interactions with the global water cycle. She did a post-doc at University Maryland/NASA before taking a position at SAIC.
Balachandru Narapusetty, MS in 2005, Evaluation of the soil model of the Hydro-Thermodynamics Soil Vegetation Scheme (HTSVS) by observations and a Galerkin weak finite element scheme, now PhD graduate student at COLA.
Mihailo Jankov, M.S. in atmospheric sciences, 2002-2005. Uncertainty analysis on the plant physiological and soil physical parameters used in land surface models. PhD in physics, University of Oslo, Norway, 2010.
Ipshita Majhi, M.S. in atmospheric sciences, 2002-2004. Evaluation of land surface models Optional Practical Training at UAF in 2004-2005, now Ph.D. student in environmental engineering at UAF
Katja Friedrich, Diploma 1999, Numerische Untersuchungen zur Sensitivität des Bowen-Verhaeltnisses (Numerical Investigations on the sensitivity of the Bowen ratio), continued for Ph.D. at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute for Physics, University Munich, 2003-2004 post-doc at CIRES, Boulder, 2005-2007 Meteo Swiss, since 2008 assistant professor at University of Colorado.
Holger Fritsch, M.S. in meteorology, 1999. Parametrisierung von Bodenfeuchte und Bodentemperatur fuer ein meoskaliges Modell (Parameterization of soil moisture and soil temperature for a mesoscale model). Continued for a PhD at Max-Planck-Institute, Jena
Kristina Fröhlich, Diploma in meteorology, 2001. Schneedeckenparametrisierung für ein mesoskaliges Modell (Parameterizing snow coverage for a mesoscale model). Contuinued for a PhD at Institute for Meteorology, University Leipzig. Now at German Weather Service, Offenbach.
Wolfram Rühaak, Ph.D. graduate student 1999-2000. Development of modules for groundwater recharge, Institute for Environmental Questions, Hannover, 200-2003, Ph.D. ETH Aachen, 2009, now at WASY, Berlin
Visiting students
Sruti Chigullapalli, Sensitivity studies using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, Ph.D. graduate student in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering at Purdue University, ARSC summer intern 2008.
Sven Goers, Development of a lake model for use in atmospheric models. Vistiting PhD student from GKSS, Geesthacht, Germany
Hanneke Luijting, Development and evaluation of a albedo parameterization using ARM data. Visting MS student from University of Vacheningen, NL, Internship at University Toulouse, continued for a Ph.D. in Norwich, GB. Now post-doc in Norway.
Franklin Opijah, Impact of land-cover changes on precipitation in the conurbation of Nairobi, Kenia. Visiting Ph.D. student from University of Nairobi, Kenia. Now at Kenian Meteorological Service, Nairobi, Kenia.
Post-docs
Dieter Haenel, Development of modules for modeling dry deposition in complex terrain with heterogeneous surface characteristics. Now at Institute for Geography, University Göttingen
Detlef Hinneburg, Development of modules for modeling dry deposition in complex terrain with heterogeneous surface characteristics. Now at Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig.
Christoph Jacobi, Development of modules for modeling dry deposition in complex terrain with heterogeneous surface characteristics. Now associate professor at Institute for Meteorology, University Leipzig.