Department of Atmospheric Sciences Graduates 2001-presenT

Name
Degree (Adviser)

Thesis title and link to document

Where are they now?

2001

Cecilé Hannay
M.S. (U. Bhatt)

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

Associate Scientist at CGD of NCAR, Boulder Colorado

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.

Post-doc at IARC, UAF, Fairbanks Alaska

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, 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

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

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.

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.

NASA/GSFC

2007

Peter Bieniek
M.S. (Wendler)

Climate and Predictibility of Alaska Wildfires, pdf.

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.

California
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

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.

New Mexico

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