Brown University

Scott Bachman

Scott was a CU 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. Scott successfully defended in December, 2012. He was then a postdoc in Cambridge, UK with John Taylor. Now, he is a scientist in the Oceanography Section of NCAR.

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. He is presently the Haines Avalanche Center Director, Forecaster and Instructor.

Jonathan Benoit

Jonny was a SURF student and Brown DEEPS undergrad who started working in the lab in Summer 2019 as a rising sophomore.

Jonny worked on a project for the 2020 RI C-AIM Vis-A-Thon where he produced the following "audio-alizations" of 2018 Narragansett Bay observations. He describes it as, "taking a year's worth (2018) of temperature data from 5 different buoys in Narragansett Bay and normalizing it to the keys on a piano (using pentatonic scales). So each note represents the temperature averaged over a day and the pitch from each of the different voicings is based on that temperature value. You can hear a difference from the winter data at the beginning of the clips and summer data towards the middle in both the overall pitch and how the buoy temps relate to one another." Link to the visathon project.

In 2021, he won a NOAA Hollings fellowship and worked with National Weather Service to improve our ability to predict waterspouts in the Florida Keys using machine learning. He also published a paper on using Landsat data to study the impacts of the Brayton Point Power Plant and climate change on Narragansett Bay. Jonny graduated in May, 2022!

Eli Berkowitz

Eli was an applied math student who collaborated with the group as a research assistant in Summer, 2017.

Sarah Blunt

Sarah joined as a Meiklejohn peer advisor for 2014. Sarah was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to study astrophyics and exoplanets at CalTech.

Victoria Boatwright

Victoria is a Rhode Islander and Georgetown biophysics student who started attending lab group meetings during the early days of COVID. She won a NOAA Hollings fellowship and worked with Mike Alexander and Mike Jacox in summer 2021 working on ROMS ocean reanalysis of the California Current. In the 2021-2022 academic year she completed a senior thesis. In fall of 2022, she will head to Germany on a Fulbright scholarship and in fall of 2023 she will start in a PhD program at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Abigail Bodner

Abigail joined the group in Fall 2015. Before coming to Brown, she was a student in earth sciences, mathematics, and atmospheric sciences at Tel Aviv University where she worked with Nili Harnik and Eyal Heifetz. Abigail successfully defended her PhD thesis, "", on June 3, 2021!! She went on to become a Simons Junior Fellow working with Laure Zanna at CAOS at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU.

Rebecca Bowers

Rebecca is an architecture and applied math concentrator interested in modeling earth systems. Rebecca started collaborating with the group as a UTRA in Spring 2023, working on machine learning infilling techniques for buoy and Landsat data, working on machine learning inputing and prediction of buoy data.

Haijin Cao

Haijin is a lecturer at Hohai University in Nanjing. He was on an extended visit during 2019-2020 working on submesocale and wave dynamics using spectral methods.

Liam Carpenter-Urquhart

Liam is a physics student who became interested in collaborating with the group in September, 2016. He was a research assistant in Summer, 2017. Liam has graduated and gone on to develop software for the healthcare industry.

Allison Cavallo

Allison is a DEEPS undergrad interested in climate resiliency and disaster management. Allison joined the lab group in August 2021. Allison is one of the students involved in the Sheridan Center Seminar for Transformation around Anti-Racist Teaching (START) DEEPS curriculum improvement in Spring, 2022.

Matt Cecchini

Matt is a URI undergrad and part of the Drones & the Bay Electrical & Computer Engineering Capstone Design project following up on this research in the 2020-2021 academic year.

Anson Cheung

Anson is a DEEPS Ph.D. student working with our group together with Tim Herbert. Anson is interested in Pacific paleoceanography, especially using biomarkers in sediment cores to reconstruct decadal to centennial climate variability. He has also been working with satellite data to better understand the patterns and correlated variability of the SST, chlorophyll, and winds near Baja, California. Anson successfully defended on April 5, 2023!

Jacinta Clay

Jacinta was a geophysics student who is interested in polar processes. She did an oceanographic internship at Texas A&M with Kyeong Park in Summer 2018 and completed her thesis in the group in 2019. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Norway for 2019-2020, and then joined the Princeton AOS Program.

Bradley Cooper

Bradley was a UROP from Spring 2010. Bradley graduated in mechanical engineering in June 2011 and went on to be a graduate student in computer science. He was a database administrator at Teens4Oceans, and now is the CIO at Wild Goose Imaging, a manufacturer of underwater camera systems.

Danny Cruz

Danny is a URI undergrad and part of the Drones & the Bay Electrical & Computer Engineering Capstone Design project following up on this research in the 2020-2021 academic year.

Jihai Dong

Jihai has been visited the group from August 2019 to August 2020 from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology where he is an assistant professor. He is working on submesoscale modeling.

Xiaoyu (Rain) Fan

Rain was a DEEPS graduatestudent who began in September, 2019. She worked on ROMS simulations, using the nonhydrostatic version of CROCO-ROMS, and received her SM in 2022. Rain has a masters in environmental science and management from HKUST and a degree in atmospheric sciences from Zhejiang University. Rain now works at the center for computation and visualization at Brown.

Eliza Feero

Eliza was an undergraduate interested in concentrating in mathematics who joined the group in Summer 2015 for a research project on tensors.

Alice Foster

Alice is a SURF student and Brown applied math undergrad who started working in the lab in Summer 2019.

Mara Freilich

Mara, an applied math concentrator, joined in Spring 2014 for an independent study related to the reacting tracers project. Mara received a PhD from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, and then went on to a postdoc at the UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Troy Gibbs-Brown

Troy is a Leadership Alliance student and an Environmental Arts Theorist at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Troy worked remotely with the lab in Summer 2021, on his project "orecasting the altered migration pattern of Cyanea capillata and investigating the subsequent impacts on coastal ecosystems".

Maya Gong

Maya is a Leadership Alliance student who visited the group from Haverford in Summer 2022. She majors in mathematics with a minor in environmental studies. Maya worked on predicting river flow into Narragansett Bay from weather models and reanalysis.

Rachel Gottlieb

Rachel, then a sophomore geophysics concentrator, joined in Summer 2013 as part of a team UTRA related to this project. Rachel is now the director of Overland Summers.

Galen Hall

Galen is a physics student who is working on an honors thesis in the group. He started collaborating in Fall 2019, after a semester at Oxford studying with the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics group. Galen successfully defended his physics honors thesis on 27 April, 2020! Galen went on to work in the Climate and Development Lab and finish up a paper based on his thesis (with support from a Brown SPRINT award).

Peter Hamlington

Peter joined as a research assistant professor in Aerospace Engineering. He has been collaborating on upper ocean turbulence projects since Fall, 2011. Now, he is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at CU and leads the TESLa.

Sean Haney

Sean was an ATOC graduate student who started working with the group in Spring 2011. Sean has worked on wave-wind forcing of Langmuir turbulence, hurricane wakes, and the impacts of waves on the turbulence in the ocean surface boundary layer. CNLS 2013. Sean successfully defended his thesis on 1/9/15! Sean was later a post-doc at Scripps/UCSD.

Tragically, Sean passed away on January 1, 2021 due to the progression of complications from what was likely a tick-borne infection. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography will held the first Sean R. Haney Memorial Symposium in Feb. 2023, an annual endowed lecture funded with support from his family and friends. Here is the 2024 symposium.

Jordan Hartzell

Jordan is an applied math-computer science concentrator who research on sea icea and climate modeling during the fall of 2021, including toy models and emulators. Jordan just completed a gap year working with a non-profit she helped found: The Farmlink Project.

Morgan Holstine

Morgan is a junior concentrating in applied math and environmental studies. Morgan started collaborating with the group as a UTRA in Spring 2023, working on machine learning inputing and prediction techniques for buoy data.

Chris Horvat

Chris Horvat is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at Auckland University, New Zealand, as well as a Visiting Professor of Research at Brown. He works on parameterizations and remote sensing of sea ice, ecological, and ocean variability in polar regions, and leads Work Package 3 of the Scale Aware Sea Ice Project, as well as the Antipodal Polar Oceanography Group at both Brown and Auckland. Chris received his Ph.D. from the Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, where he worked with Eli Tziperman. After some adventures in the Arctic, he initially joined the Fox-Kemper group in 2018 as a NOAA C&GC Postdoc.

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 went on to graduate from Rutgers-Camden and became a Criminal Investigator with the Environmental Protection Agency.

Leah Johnson

Leah was a postdoctoral researcher from Oct. 2018 to Dec. 2021 who received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington working with Craig Lee and Eric D'Asaro. Leah's experience working with ocean observations in a quantitative, scaling model-based framework will be handy as she works on our ONR MISO-BoB project. After Brown, Leah returned to Seattle as a Senior Oceanographer at UW/APL.

Greg Jordan-Detamore

Greg joined as a Meiklejohn peer advisor for 2013. Greg is now an open cities technologist at the Sunlight Foundation.

Zhiyou Jing

Dr. Jing visited from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (SCSIO), on a visit supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) from April to September, 2015. He is interested in observations and modeling of submesoscale structures.

Helen Kershaw

Helen was a lead research software engineer at Brown. She collaborated with the group on programming issues relating to CESM and WaveWatch-III. Before joining Brown, she was a software engineer at NCAR CSEG. As of Summer 2020, Helen returned to Boulder to work at NOAA.

Hannah Kolus

Hannah, a physics major, joined in Fall 2014 to work on Large Eddy Simulations of upper ocean turbulence for her undergraduate thesis, co-supervised by Pelcovits. Hannah is took on graduate studies in the Paleoclimate Dynamics Laboratory at Northern Arizona University, and now is Energy and Climate Research Analyst at the Rhodium Group, including work on this important project.

Kenta Kondo

Kenta is an undergraduate concentrating in engineering. He joined the group in Summer 2015 for a research project on paleoclimate records of ocean heat content. He is finishing up his Sc.B. in engineering and also does industrial design at RISD.

Grace Kowalski

Grace is a Leadership Alliance student who visited the group from Purdue in Summer 2022. She's a double major in applied statistics and environmental geoscience. She worked on comparing NOAA tide gauge data against the Ocean State Ocean Model.

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.

Bernard Li

Bernard is a double concentrator in computational biology and applied mathematics. Bernard started collaborating with the group at the end of Spring 2023, working on using machine learning with Narragansett Bay data as an UTRA student.

Qing Li

Qing was a graduate student who started working with the group in Fall 2013. He defended his dissertatation in Spring 2018, and joined the COSIM group at Los Alamos National Lab. Before that Qing received a master's degree in atmospheric science from Peking University working with Haijun Yang. Qing is studying the impacts of wave-driven mixing of the ocean surface boundary layer on climate. OSM 14. Qing is now a faculty member at HKUST Guangzhou.

Yongxi (Aaron) Lin

Aaron started collaborating in the group in Fall 2021 as a first-year student. He was a Spring 2022 SURF+ student working on drone observations. He continued this work into Summer of 2022.

Sokpearoun Lorn

Sok was a SURF student in 2021 and a computer engineering student at URI. Sok learned to fly the drone and took obervations of surface waves and currents using it near Save the Bay and in the Seekonk River near Phillipsdale. His final presentation is here.

Andrew Margolin

Andrew was 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 was a grad. student at U. Miami after Summer 2012, and defended and became a post-doc at VIMS working with Elizabeth Shadwick. Here is a prize-winning paper of Andrew's! Here is the EOS note on Andrew's award. Andrew is now at U. British Columbia, and has this awesome webpage bridging environmental science, scicomm, and multimedia.

Katherine McCaffrey

Katie was a CIRES/ESRL fellow in ATOC who began collaborating in Spring 2010. ATOC 2011. CNLS 2013. OSM 14. Katie successfully defended her PhD thesis on May, 2, 2014! Katie joined the Wilczak group at NOAA ESRL to extend her work on characterizing sites for tidal power to the atmosphere. Now she is an Energy Research Analyst doing electricity generation and price forecasting at S&P Global.

Arin Nelson

Arin has has a long history with the group, beginning when Baylor served as a dissertation committee member on Arin's PhD at the University of Colorado (2017). Near the end of his PhD, Arin relocated to Rhode Island and took on some paleoclimate extensions to his thesis project working with Baylor, Warren Prell, and Steve Clemens. He continued for a short while post-defense working on that project, before joining Brian Arbic's group for a postdoctoral position. At the end of this project, Arin returned to a Rhode Island-centered position at URI to work with us and the NSF EPSCoR CAIM project to model Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound using ROMS. Arin now works at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport.

Jack Ogaja

Jack Ogaja was a Scientific Programmer and Data Analyst at IBES. He received his BS from University of Nairobi, Kenya, and PhD from Brandenburg University of Technology in Germany where he worked with Andreas Will and Rupert Klein (Free University Berlin) developing a dynamical core of an operational atmospheric model. He later worked at Barcelona Supercomputing Center as a Computational Scientist and Research Engineer for a Data Assimilation framework of a chemical transport model.

Alejandro Orfila

Jano is a Scientific Investigator at IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) in Mallorca, Spain. He visited the group over the Spring and Summer of 2019, working on statistics of coastal and submesoscale flows, especially Lagrangian statistics.

Ana Ordonez

Ana joined as a SOARS student visiting Boulder in the summer of 2012 from Arizona State University. Ana is majoring in geography with concentration in meteorology, and a minor in GIS. Ana's project is on mapping ocean energy resources. Ana began graduate school at the University of Washington in Fall 2013, working with Cecilia Bitz. Ana now works at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a Climate and Weather Data Analytics Developer.

Patrick Orenstein

Patrick, a DEEPS student, expressed an interest in getting more into oceanography in January of 2016, and he then went to the semester at WHOI program in Fall, 2016. Since then, he collaborated as a group member, as a research assistant in Summer, 2017, and as a thesis student in 2019, graduating in Spring 2020. He will now go on to graduate school at Columbia Applied Math working with Adam Sobel.

Brodie Pearson

Brodie was a postdoc then a visiting assistant professor of research who received his Ph.D. from the University of Reading's Dept. of Meteorology and Boundary Layer Group, where he worked with Stephen Belcher and Alan Grant. He worked on subgrid closures for mesoscale-permitting ocean models, i.e., Mesoscale Ocean Large Eddy Simulations (MOLES) from January, 2015 to Summer 2017. He is now working on using structure functions to quantify the comparison between high-resolution ocean models and observations. In January 2020, Brodie became an assistant professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University.

Jenna Pearson

Jenna joined the group in Fall 2015. Before that, she was a student at Northeastern Illinois Unviersity, where she earned a double bachelor's degree in applied mathematics and earth science. She has done research in mantle dynamics (with NEIU faculty), epidemiology (with A. Price), and traffic flow (with B. Sandstede). Jenna successfully defended her thesis, "Submesoscale Statistics from Surface Drifters: Biases and Benefits" on April 9, 2020! After a few months of finishing up manuscripts at Brown, she began working as a postdoc at Princeton Geosciences with Laure Resplandy.

Nasir Perera-Olivo

Nas started collaborating in the group in Fall 2021 as an Applied Math sophomore. He was a Spring 2022 UTRA student working on climate modelling.

Aakash Sane

Aakash joined the group in September, 2017, after receiving his master's degree working with Shreyas Mandre in Brown Fluids Engineering. Aakash continued on to a PhD in fluids engineering by working in our group, particularly by improving parameterizations and using information theory to study predictability in ROMS. Aakash went on to become a postdoctoral associate at Princeton working with Brandon Reichl on the M2LInES project.

Lydia Stone

Lydia is a Harvey Mudd College student who worked with APOG in Summer 2022 as part of SASIP.

Scott Reckinger

Scott was a postdoctoral researcher (Fall 2013-Summer 2015) who received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado's Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he worked with Oleg Vasilyev. He works on improved representations of ocean mesoscale eddies in climate models. After teaching at Montana State University, he taught at St. Mary's College, and now is at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Shanon Reckinger

Shanon visited in Fall 2014 on sabbatical from Fairfield University Department of Mechanical Engineering. She works on advanced numerical methods for ocean modeling. After teaching at Montana State University, Shanon went back to school to get a degree in computer science education at Stanford. She now is at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Valentin Resseguier

Shortly after finishing his Ph.D. with Etienne Memin and Bertrand Chapron, Valentin had a short visit (< 6 months) to the group to work on stochastic modeling and subgrid schemes He now works at SCALIAN.

Eugene Robinson

Gene, then a sophomore geobio concentrator, joined in Summer 2013 as part of a team UTRA related to this project. Gene is now a product manager in improved farming technology at FarmLogs.

Mika Siegelman

Mika joined in 2013 to do a senior thesis in physics. Mika successfully defended her thesis on 4/29/14, and went on to grad school at U. Hawaii in Mark Merrifield's group as part of the Coastal Processes Group.

Joseph Skitka

Joe was a physics Ph.D. student working with Brad Marston. Joe studies computational fluid dynamics through both PDE-based and statistical methods. After continuing to work first as a teaching fellow (2019) and then as a postdoc (2019--) at Brown, Joe taught at Providence College. He is now a post-doc at the Unversity of Michigan with Brian Arbic.

Benny Smith

Benny was a SURF student and DEEPS undergrad who started working in the lab in Summer 2020 as a rising sophomore. Benny went on to work in the engineering department doing software development for fluids lab experiments.

Samantha Stevenson

Sam was an CU-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 after a postdoc in Hawaii and a time at NCAR as a project scientist in paleoclimate, she has joined the faculty of UCSB.

Nobuhiro Suzuki

Nobu was a postdoctoral researcher who received his Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography, where he worked with Tetsu Hara. OSM 14. He worked on understanding the Stokes forces of ocean surface waves and their effects on upper ocean dynamics and turbulence in a postdoc position from May, 2013 to December, 2016. He was then a LabEXMer fellow at IFREMER. He now works at Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Zentrum für Materialforschung

Erica Thieleman

Erica joined in Summer, 2013 as a part of a team UTRA related to this project. Erica was the CAP Fellow for Monsters of the Abyss. Erica is now a geologist at EA Engineering, Science and Technology, Inc.

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. In 2013, Luke joined the COSIM and fluid groups at LANL.

Haili Wang

Haili visited the group from December 2018 to December 2019 from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology where she is getting her PhD. She is working on Large Eddy Simulations of Langmuir turbulence and coastal flows. She set up the original nested versions of the ROMS OSOM.

Adrean Webb

Adrean was a graduate student in CU 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. He was mostly supported on this project. Adrean successfully defended his thesis on May 31, 2013! Adrean was a project researcher at the University of Tokyo working with T. Waseda. He is now a project assistant professor in the the Coastal Engineering Laboratory in the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University.

Daniel Wexler

Dan is a DEEPS concentrator who started working with the group as a 2022 SURF summer student. Dan did a capstone project on making Landsat records of sea surface temperature, salinity, and chlorophyll in Narragansett Bay. Dan graduated in Dec. 2022!

Ella Wood

Ella was a SURF student and Brown DEEPS geo-bio undergrad who worked in the lab in Summer 2020 as a rising DEEPS Geo-Bio junior. She studied beach closures in comparison to OSOM simulation data.

Seth Wojciechowski

Seth was a SURF student and URI Electrical Engineering undergrad who started working in the lab in Summer 2020. He went on to do the Drones & the Bay Electrical & Computer Engineering Capstone Design project following up on this research in the 2020-2021 academic year.

Jason Wu

Jason is a concentrator in computer science. Jason started collaborating with the group at the end of Spring 2023, working on using machine learning with Narragansett Bay data.

Stephen Yeager

Steve joined as an NCAR ocean section scientist to simultaneously work toward his doctorate in oceanography. Steve successfully defended in April, 2013, and continues his work at NCAR.

Pittayuh Yoosiri

Poom is a Brown DEEPS student who worked with APOG in Summer 2022 as part of SASIP. Poom also was the undergraduate teaching assistant for EEPS0160 (Monsters of the Abyss) in Fall 2022.

Weixuan (Rosa) Xu

Rosa is a DEEPS Ph.D. student working with our group together with Jung-Eun Lee. Rosa is interested in monsoons and orographic steering and its effect on climate. She has also been collaborating with Brad Marston's group on detecting topological waves in weather and climate data. Rosa successfully defended in Nov. 2022, and she soon afterward began a position in climate science consulting at \a href="http://mckinsey.com">McKinsey.

Aaron Zettler-Mann

Aaron Zettler-Mann received his B.A. in Geography, magna cum laude, wiriting his honors thesis with Baylor as advisor. Aaron got a masters at the University of Denver Department of Geography and the Environment and now is getting a PhD researching rivers (fluvial geomorphology) at U. Oregon.

Jinxuan Zhu

Jinxuan joined the group in Fall 2015, and received his master's degree in 2017. Before that, he received a master's degree in atmospheric and ocean science from Peking University working with Zhengyu Liu and Xinyao Rong. Jinxuan is presently developing software at eGenerationMarketing.