Research Group
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Baylor Fox-Kemper (CV)
In January, 2013, I joined what is now the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. I work mostly within the Climate and Environment Group. I am also an elected fellow of the Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES) and collaborate with the Fluids at Brown program, the Initiative for Sustainable Energy, and the Brown Theoretical Physics Center.
From 2007-2012, I was a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. I taught in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and was an affiliate of the Department of Applied Mathematics. Before Boulder, I worked as a NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoc and Research Scientist with Raffaele Ferrari at MIT and Geoff Vallis at Princeton and GFDL. My PhD is from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography working with Joe Pedlosky (at WHOI) and Paola Rizzoli (at MIT). In my pre-oceanographic career, I trained in physics at Reed with Nick Wheeler and at Brandeis with Stanley Deser and X.-J. Wang.
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Paul Hall
Paul is a senior research software engineer at Brown. He is collaborating with the group on programming issues relating to Rutgers ROMS, CROCO-ROMS, CESM, and WaveWatch-III among many other models. Before joining Brown, he got his PhD at URI with Chris Kincaid and worked at Harvard and Boston University.
Postdoctoral Researchers and Visitors
Postdoctoral Researcher Advice (PDF)
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Adam Ayouche
Adam is a postdoc working primarily on the DoE Offshore Wind Project who started in March, 2024. Adam received his Ph.D. in oceanography working at IFREMER with Xavier Carton. Adam is working with Large Eddy Simulations and weather models of the marine atmospheric boundary layer.
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Xinyi Huang
Xinyi is a postdoc working primarily on machine learning for the 3CRS Project who started in August, 2025. Xinyi received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Penn State in the Flow Physics and Computational Research Lab, focusing on turbulence modeling with machine-learning techniques. Before coming to Brown, she worked at CalTech in the Bae Research group for computational turbulence on consistent data-driven model development. Her website has more about her projects and outreach activities!
Graduate Students
Graduate Student Research Advice (PDF)
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Ashfaq Ahmed
Ashfaq is a Fluids Engineering PhD student who began collaborating in the summer of 2024. He is co-advised by Baylor and Monica Martinez Wilhelmus. He is working on satellites and data assimilating models, first of Narragansett Bay and then of the Arctic.
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Joel Feske
Joel is a DEEPS PhD student who began in September, 2020. He is working on tensors and eddy parameterizations. Joel has a background in physics from Bowdoin and a masters of mechanical engineering focused on the modeling and control of dynamical systems from Carnegie Mellon. Some of his past projects are here.
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Leah Hoogstra
Leah is an Applied Math PhD student with an M.S. in Mathematics from California Polytechnic State University (SLO) who began collaborating in the fall of 2024. Leah is co-advised by Baylor and Mara Freilich. She is working on evaluating sea level emulators for the 3CRS Project, and previously studied the mathematical properties of intersectional diversity metrics. Next she plans to work on wave-mean flow interaction for the nano-to-microplastics fate and transport team of the SIMCoast project.
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Anna Lo Piccolo
Anna joined the group in Fall 2019 as a visitor from U. Bologna where she is working toward her masters degree under the supervision of Nadia Pinardi. At Brown she worked together with Baylor and Chris on sea ice-ocean interactions at ice edges and leads and their parameterization. She continued to work as part of the TRACE-SEAS project on entrainment parameterizations.
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Alejandra Lopez
Alejandra is primarily advised by Mara Freilich, but in 2025 she began working on a project to organize the Daytrippers/Insomniac dissolved oxygen cruise data, a project initiated by Warren Prell and collaborators to better understand change in Narragansett Bay. The organization is necessary for the data to be part of the NBEP State of the Bay Report in 2027.
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John Nicklas
John began working in the group as a PLME student interested in research on avoiding the worst aspects of climate change. He worked on a geoengineering climate modeling project, and has at least one patent in green tech. John is the 2020 recipient of both the Maria L. Caleel Memorial Award for Academic Excellence in biology and the Jerome L Stein Memorial Award for Undergraduate Excellence in applied mathematics. John successfully defended his applied math/biology honors thesis on 1 May, 2020! John is now alternately enrolled in the Alpert Medical School for an M.D. and DEEPS for a Ph.D. and presently is working on two papers based on his undergraduate thesis.
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Anupama Raghunathan
Anu is a DEEPS PhD student who began collaborating in the summer of 2025. Anu is co-advised by Baylor and Chris Horvat. She is working on questions related to the "polar tempest", i.e., the theory and modeling of turbulent cascades in the coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean system.
Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Student Research Advice (PDF)
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Allison Cavallo
Allison is a DEEPS undergrad interested in meteorology, physical oceanography, and air-sea interactions. 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. In fall 2025, Allison began working on a senior thesis project on the development of meanders and eddies from a current.
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Scout Chen
Scout is an applied math concentrator and a fall 2025 SPRINT fellow, where he contributed to a project to organize the Daytrippers/Insomniac dissolved oxygen cruise data, a project initiated by Warren Prell and collaborators to better understand change in Narragansett Bay. The organization is necessary for the data to be part of the NBEP State of the Bay Report in 2027.
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Lawrence Chen
Lawrence is an environmental engineering concentrator and a spring 2026 SPRINT fellow. He has built and programmed custom synthesizers!
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Qien Lin
Lynn is a computer science & applied math concentrator and a fall 2025 SPRINT fellow, where she contributed to a project to organize the Daytrippers/Insomniac dissolved oxygen cruise data, a project initiated by Warren Prell and collaborators to better understand change in Narragansett Bay. The organization is necessary for the data to be part of the NBEP State of the Bay Report in 2027.
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Ntsika Mtwa
Ntsika is a mechanical engineering concentrator and a spring 2026 SPRINT fellow. He is a wing-foil sailor and instructor!
Research Group GitHub Code Repository
Past Members
Interested in joining?
Potential or current graduate students may contact Baylor with questions. They should check out graduate student fellowships, too: NSF, NSF Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, NASA (GSRP and NESSF), Ford Foundation, AMS, DOD NDSEG, DOD SMART, DOE SCGF, ASEE, DOE (GREF, CSGF, and HPCSF), Hertz, NRC RAP, NPSC, & NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium, & Foster scholars.
Undergraduates interested in research projects can also contact Baylor. Funding may be available through an IBES fellowship, a leadership alliance fellowship (for students outside of Brown), Voss fellowship, UTRA, an NSF REU, AMS, NOAA Hollings (apply while a sophomore), or DOD SMART fellowship. Summer research opportunities include NREIP.
Postdoctoral investigators interested in research projects can also contact Baylor. Funding may be available through a NSF, NSF SEES, NOAA, OCE-PRF, NRC RAP, Ford Foundation, L'Oreal, or IBES fellowship.
If you would like a nearly effortless way to collaborate with the group check here (for amusement only!). If you want to see where we're headed, check here!
Collaborators
Baylor has a wide network of collaborations through Brown, URI, NCAR/CESM, CLIVAR, USCLIVAR, IPCC, NEMO, ROMS, etc.
