People | Climate Processes & Predictability @ CUB

Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

Aneesh Subramanian

Associate Professor

Research interests include weather and climate prediction, data assimilation, and geophysical fluid dynamics.

PhD Students

Chaehyeong Lee

PhD Student

Primary Advisor: Donata Giglio; Co-advisor: Aneesh Subramanian. Investigates air-sea interaction and marine heatwave evolution.

Isaac Davis

PhD Student

Studies extreme weather prediction using machine learning, focusing on US West Coast atmospheric rivers.

Lucas Howard

PhD Student

Background in Physics and Civil/Environmental Engineering. Interested in machine learning applications to data assimilation.

Sean Heslin

PhD Student

Primary Advisor: Will Chapman; Co-advisor: Aneesh Subramanian. Evaluates predictive skill of extreme atmospheric rivers in machine-learning weather models.

Ziqi Yin

PhD Student

Focuses on ice sheet-climate interactions and high-resolution Greenland Ice Sheet modeling.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Lucy Recchia

Postdoctoral Researcher

PhD in Applied Mathematics from University of Leeds. Expertise in mathematical models for fluid dynamics; applies mathematical tools to atmospheric and oceanic processes.

Co-mentored by Weiqing Han. PhD in Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology from Indian Institute of Science. Research encompasses atmospheric dynamics, climate variability, sea level variability, ocean mesoscale dynamics, and decadal climate variability.

Yuan-Jen Lin

Postdoctoral Associate

PhD from National Taiwan University (2022). Research focuses on large-scale climate dynamics and climate change.

Research Scientists

Mike MacFerrin

Research Associate

Specializes in Greenland ice sheet meltwater interactions and machine learning applications to satellite/airborne remote sensing. Discovered new meltwater runoff mechanism in Greenland (published in Nature). Also teaches Remote Sensing and Introduction to Climate Change at CU Boulder.

Undergraduate Researchers

Aidan Janney

Undergraduate Student

Major in Physics, minoring in Computer Science and Art. Interests include oceanography, ocean modeling, and nonlinear dynamics.

Brendan Myers

Undergraduate Researcher

Working on downslope winds in Front Range, collaborating with Gerald Meehl and Christine Shields at NCAR.

Visitors

Jithendra Raju Nadimpalli

Visiting Scholar (Spring 2022)

Postdoctoral Scholar at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Research on internal waves, ocean mixing, ocean modeling, and remote sensing.

Mio Matsueda

Visiting Scholar (Fall 2019)

Associate Professor at University of Tsukuba. Research on ensemble forecasting, weather/climate predictability, weather regimes, and high-resolution climate modeling. Created and hosts TIGGE and S2S museums for forecast diagnostics.

Paula Lorenzo Sanchez

Visiting Scholar (July-October 2023)

Physics degree from University of Valencia; Master's in Renewable Energies from University of Barcelona. PhD student at University of Bologna/CMCC. Research on machine learning applications to climate variability and forecasting.

PhD Alumni

Danni Du

PhD Graduate (August 2024)

Co-advised by Weiqing Han. Research on air-sea interaction and Indian Ocean's role in monsoon dynamics. Currently a Postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University/GFDL.

Tim Higgins

PhD Graduate (May 2025)

BS in Meteorology/Atmospheric Sciences and Applied Mathematics from University of Miami. Dissertation focus: Predictability and numerical weather prediction improvements at subseasonal through seasonal timescales; atmospheric river dynamics.

Postdoctoral Alumni

Devon Dunmire

Postdoctoral Researcher (2022-2023)

Research on meltwater in polar regions using climate/snow models, satellite observations, and machine learning.

Ho-Hsuan Wei

Postdoc (2019-Fall 2022)

PhD from Caltech in Environmental Science and Engineering. Advisor: Simona Bordoni; Co-advised by Kris Karnauskas. Research on seasonally varying tropical convergence zones. Currently a Scientist at NOAA-CIRES.

Ulla Heede

NOAA CVP Postdoctoral Researcher

PhD in Earth & Planetary Sciences from Yale. Co-mentored by Kris Karnauskas. Research on tropical climate dynamics, tropical Pacific coupled ocean-atmosphere response to anthropogenic forcing. NASA FINESST fellowship recipient.

Yingli Zhu

Postdoc Associate (Alumni)

Co-mentored by Weiqing Han. BS and MS from Ocean University of China; PhD from University of South Florida (2019). Research on sea level variability, ocean mesoscale dynamics, internal waves, and decadal ocean/climate variability.

Research Scientists Alumni

Dave Reynolds

Consultant

Former Meteorologist in Charge at NWS San Francisco Bay Area; Chief of Operations at Hydrometeorological Prediction Center. Interests include Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting and climate change impacts in California.

Rajashree Tri Datta

Research Associate (Alumni)

Currently Faculty at TU Delft. Research on ice sheet and ice shelf surface mass balance; variable-resolution CESM2 modeling; extreme precipitation over Antarctica.