email: pkeys at colostate.edu

About Prof. Keys

Masters student

email: kathum at colostate.edu

Kat Humphreys is a first-year masters student at Colorado State University. She received her B.S. from Virginia Polytechnic University in 2023 with a double major in Meteorology and Geography. Kat is interested in exploring global moisture recycling patterns and how humans interact with them in a warming climate. Her past research focused on winter jet stream variability and human movement patterns in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

PhD student

email: nrim at colostate.edu; Personal website

Nari Im is a first-year Ph.D. student at Colorado State University. She obtained her B.S. from Yonsei University, South Korea, with dual majors in Atmospheric Sciences and Science Technology and Society (STS) in 2020, and completed her M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences at the same university in 2022. Her M.S. research focused on investigating the hysteresis and irreversibility of global and European climate systems under CO2 removal scenarios using CESM. Her current Ph.D. pursuits involve applying Machine Learning techniques to enhance climate predictions. Specifically, she is interested in climate extremes, such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall, as well as water cycle patterns influenced by soil moisture-precipitation feedback. Her ultimate goal is to bridge climatic insights with environmental policy development.

Post-Doctoral Researcher

email: bryamop at colostate.edu

Dr. Bryam Orihuela-Pinto is a postdoctoral research fellow at Colorado State University. He holds an engineer degree in meteorology from the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Peru, an MSc in Atmosphere Ocean and Climate from the University of Reading, England, and a PhD in Climate Science from the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research background includes a range of topics, including urban meteorology, seasonal forecasting of ENSO, tropical climate variability and long-term trends, inter-basin interactions in tropical regions, and the global repercussions of AMOC changes. Presently, he is contributing to a project that leverages AI techniques and satellite imagery to investigate the ways in which climate change impacts sustainable development around the world.

PhD candidate and Visiting Scholar

email: marcus.silveira at colostate.edu

ResearchGate page

Marcus Silveira is a PhD candidate in Remote Sensing at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). He also holds a M.Sc. in Remote Sensing at INPE and received his B.S. in Forestry from the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil. His thesis is focused on climate impacts of Amazon deforestation and the implications for agricultural sustainability. As part of his thesis objectives, Marcus developed a research collaboration with Dr. Patrick Keys to investigate moisture recycling from the Amazon to agricultural regions in Brazil and how deforestation can affect this moisture transport. Marcus' research background involves large-scale analyses of environmental change and its drivers, and his broad research interest includes land use/land cover change, climate change, and ecosystem services.