Department of Atmospheric Sciences Graduates 2001-presenT

Student Publication List Available here!

Name
Degree (Adviser)

Thesis title and link to document

After graduation? (Current Status in Bold)

2011

Dyre O. Dammann
M.S. (Bhatt)

Role of Arctic Sea Ice Variability in Climate Models, pdf.

Portland, OR.

Jiang Zhu
Ph.D. (Sassen)

Investigation on Cirrus Clouds by the Cloud-Aerosol LIDAR and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation Data, pdf.

GINA, UAF, Fairbanks, AK

 

2010

Austin Cross
M.S. (Atkinson)

Synoptic drivers of storm surge In Kotzebue Sound, pdf.

National Weather Service, Monterrey, CA

Julie Malingowski
M.S. (Atkinson)

An  Obervational  study  of  the  surfaced-­-based  radiation  temperature  inversion   in  Fairbanks,  Alaska , pdf.

National Weather Service, Fairbanks, AK

Rebecca Legatt
M.S. (Polyakov)

North Atlantic Air-Sea Interactions Driven by Atmospheric and Oceanic Stochastic Forcing in a Simple Box Model, pdf

NOAA Tsunami Warning Center, Palmer, Alaska

2009

Debasish Pai Mazumder Ph.D (Mölders)

A concept to access the performance of a permafrost model run fully coupled with a climate model, pdf.

Post-doc position at University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Canada

Stacy E. Porter
M.S. (Mölders)

Investigation of the impact of ship emissions on atmospheric composition and deposition in remote, coastal landscapes of southwest Alaska, pdf.

Ph.D. student at Ohio State University

Brentha Thurairajah
Ph.D. (Collins)

Role of waves on the circulation of the arctic middle atmosphere: Rayleigh LIDAR measurements and analysis, pdf.

Post-doc position at Virginia Tech

Michel dos Santos Mesquita
Ph.D.(Atkinson)

Characteristics and variability of storm tracks in the North Pacific, Bering Sea and Alaska , pdf.

Scientist at Bjerknes Center in Bergen Norway

Agatha Light
M.S. (Collins)

Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Resonance Fluorescence Lidar for Measurements of N+2 in the Auroral Atmosphere, pdf.

Physics Dept. Lab Supervisor, UAF

Jennifer March
M.S. (Atkinson)

Synoptic Climatology of the Eastern Brooks Range, Alaska: A Data Legacy of the International Geophysical Year, pdf.

Fairbanks, AK

2008

Stefanie Bourne
M.S. (Bhatt)

A Climate Perspective of Observed and Modeled Surface-based Temperature Inversions in Alaska, pdf .

Energy Analyst at DNV Global Energy Concepts, Inc Seattle, Washington

Morgan Brown
M.S. (Mölders)

Impact of Local External Forcing of the 2006 Augustine Volcano Eruption on Regional Weather Conditions , pdf.

University of Iowa, PhD Program

Patrick Cobb
M.S. (Sassen)

Assessing the Performance of Several MODIS Level-2 Cloud and Aerosol Products Against a Surface Based Polarization Cloud LIDAR at Fairbanks, AK, pdf.

Wind Energy Enterprise, New Mexico

2007

Peter Bieniek
M.S. (Wendler)

Climate and Predictibility of Alaska Wildfires, pdf.

DAS UAF Ph.D. Program

Pavan Kankanala
M.S. ( Sassen)

Doppler Sodar Observations of the Winds and Structure in the Lower Atmosphere Over Fairbanks, Alaska , pdf.

Wisconsin
Zhao Li
Ph.D. (Mölders)

Investigations on the Impacts of Land-Cover Changes and/or Increased CO2 Concentrations on Four Regional Water Cycles and Their Interactions with the Global Water Cycle, pdf.

NASA/GSFC

2006

Rawshan Muna
M.S. (Alexeev)

 On the Origin of Monson: Conventional Theory vs New Findings, Project M.S., pdf.

London, UK
Colin Murray
M.S. (Walsh)

A Model Composite Assessment of the Enhancement of Arctic Warming by Sea Ice Retreat, Project MS.

Seattle
Kara Sterling
M.S. (Bhatt)

Multi-Decadal Variability of Atlantic Water Heat Transports as Seen in the Community Climate Systems Model Version 3.0, pdf.

DAS UAF Ph.D. Program/NOAA Tsunami Warning Center, Palmer, Alaska
Ramaswamy Tiruchirapalli
M.S. (Sassen)

Micropulse Lidar Observations of Free Tropospheric Aerosols over the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement site at Barrow, Alaska, pdf.

NASA/GSFC

James Campbell
Ph.D. (Sassen)

Autonomous Full-Time Lidar Observations of Polar Stratospheric Clouds at South Pole, pdf.

Naval Postgraduate School

2005

Mihailo Jankov
M.S. (Mölders)

Analysis of Uncertainty in Simulated Exchange of heat and Moisture at the Land-Atmosphere Interface, pdf .

University of Oslo-Physics Dept., Ph.D. Program

Bala Narapusetty
M.S. (Mölders)

Evaluation of a Hydro-thermodynamic Soil Vegetation Scheme on the Basis of
Observations and a Galerkin type Finite Element Numerical Scheme, pdf .

George Mason University/COLA, Ph.D. Program

2004

Ipshita Majhi
M.S. (Mölders)

Evaluation of a Hydro-thermodynamic Soil Vegetation Scheme by Observations in Alaska and the Baltic Region, Project MS, pdf .

UAF, ENGR. PhD Program

Likun Wang
Ph.D. (Sassen)

Mid-latitude Cirrus Cloud Structural Properties Analyzed From the Extended Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing.

University of Maryland

2001

Cecilé Hannay
M.S. (Bhatt)

Single Column Model Simulations of Arctic Cloudiness and Surface Radiative Fluxes during the SHEBA Experiment, pdf .

Associate Scientist at NCAR CGD, Boulder Colorado,
Scientist NOAA CIRES Boulder

Joseph Sheedy
M.S. (Cahill) 

On the Surface: Energy Budget of Antarctic Sea Ice, Project MS.

Seattle, WA
Adrienne Tivy
M.S. (Bhatt)

Investigation of North Pacific Sea Ice Anomalies in the Context of Atmospheric and Oceanic Variability, pdf.

IARC Post-doc at UAF,
PhD U. Calgary Edmonton