People
Current Lab Members
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Visiting Scholar
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Graduate Student
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Graduate Student
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Graduate Student
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Founding Director, Carnegie Climate and Resilience Hub
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Executive Assistant
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Research Associate
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Visiting Student
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Visiting Scholar
Alumni (Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows) listed in order of departure
![]() | Julian Merder (Postdoctoral Researcher 2020 - 2024) Now: Postdoctoral Fellow in the Tonkin Lab at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
![]() | Guillaume Zuffinetti (Visiting Student 2023) |
![]() | Gang Zhao (Postdoctoral Researcher 2020 - 2022) Now: Staff Scientist in the Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes Laboratory at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences |
![]() | Tristan Ballard (Ph.D. 2022) "Past and future changes in river temperatures and nitrogen export" Now: Climate Data Science, Sust Global |
![]() | Nina Randazzo (Ph.D. 2021) "North American biospheric carbon exchange variability explained by climatological and meteorological regimes" Now: Postdoctoral Researcher, Environmental Defense Fund |
![]() | Eva Sinha (Ph.D. 2018, AGU Outstanding Student Paper Awardee) "Understanding the impact of climate change, land use, and land management on riverine nitrogen loading" Now: Earth Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
![]() | Jeff Ho (Ph.D. 2018, Woods Institute Rising Environmental Leader, NSERC Postgraduate Scholar (PhD) ) "Understanding climatic and terrestrial drivers of lake phytoplankton blooms using high resolution satellite imagery" Now: Senior Data Product Manager at Indeed.com |
![]() | Yoichi Shiga (Ph.D. 2018, AGU Outstanding Student Paper Awardee) "Characterizing natural and anthropogenic carbon flux spatiotemporal variability at regional scales using a dense network of atmospheric CO2 observations over North America" Now: Climate-Aligned Finance Analyst at Wells Fargo |
![]() | Yuanyuan Fang (Postdoctoral Researcher 2012-2014, Senior Research Associate 2014-2018) Now: Statistician, Bay Area Air Quality Management District |
![]() | Dario Del Giudice (Postdoctoral Researcher 2015-2018) Now: Data Science Manager, Allstate |
![]() | Scot Miller (Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow 2015-2017) Now: Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University |
![]() | Friedemann Reum (Visiting Researcher 2016) "Methane emissions from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf" Now: Postdoctoral Researcher, German Aerospace Center |
![]() | Jovan Tadic (Postdoctoral Researcher 2013-2015, Research Associate 2015-2016) Now: Geological Project Scientist, Climate & Ecosystems Division, Earth & Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
![]() | Chao Li (Postdoctoral Researcher 2013-2016, Barbara McClintock Fellow 2015) Now: Professor, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University |
![]() | Nils Hase (Visiting Researcher 2015) "Sparse reconstruction for large scale atmospheric inverse problems" Now: Center for Industrial Mathematics, University of Bremen |
![]() | Yuntao Zhou (Ph.D. 2013, Postdoctoral Researcher 2013-2015) "Improved Estimates of the Spatial Distribution and Temporal Trends of Water Quality Parameters Using Geostatistical Data Fusion Methods" Now: Associate Professor, School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
![]() | Vineet Yadav (Postdoctoral Researcher 2008-2011, Senior Research Associate 2011-2014) Now: Data Scientist, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
![]() | Jakob Zscheischler (Visiting Researcher 2013) "Impact of Large-Scale Climate Extremes on Biospheric Carbon Fluxes" Now: Department Head, Department of Compound Environmental Risks (CER) - UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research |
![]() | Dan Obenour (Ph.D. 2013, EPA STAR Fellow, UM Water Center Research Fellow) "Assessing the Causes and Severity of Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Using Geostatistical and Mechanistic Modeling" Now: Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University |
![]() | Abhishek Chatterjee (Ph.D. 2012, NASA Earth & Space Science Fellow, NOAA Climate & Global Change Fellow) "Data Assimilation for Atmospheric CO2: Towards Improved Estimates of CO2 Concentrations and Fluxes" Now: Project Scientist, OCO-3 and Deputy Project Scientist, OCO-2, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
![]() | Dorit Hammerling (Ph.D. 2012, SAMSI Postdoctoral Fellow) "Global Atmospheric CO2 Distributions from Satellite Observations" Now: Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Colorado School of Mines |
![]() | Sharon Gourdji (Ph.D. 2011,NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow, NEXUS Fullbright Scholar) "Improved Estimates of Regional-scale Land-Atmosphere CO2 Exchange Using Geostatistical Atmospheric Inverse Models" Now: Lead Agricultural Modeler at RMS |
![]() | Deborah Huntzinger (Postdoctoral Researcher 2008-2011) Now: Professor, Climate Science, School of Earth & Sustainability, Northern Arizona University |
![]() | Kim Mueller (Ph.D. 2011, NSF IGERT Fellow, AMS/UCAR Congressional Science Fellow) "A Data-Driven Multi-Scale Statistical Investigation of Regional Sources and Sinks to Improve Knowledge of Terrestrial Carbon Cycling" Now: Environmental Engineer, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Greenhouse Gas and Climate Science Measurements Program |
![]() | Alanood Alkhaled (Ph.D. 2009) "Remote Sensing of CO2: Geostatistical Tools for Assessing Spatial Variability, Quantifying Representation Errors, and Gap-Filling" Now: Assistant professor, Kuwait University |
![]() | Shahar Shlomi (Ph.D. 2009) "Combining Geostatistical Analysis and Flow-and-Transport Models to Improve Groundwater Contaminant Plume Estimation" Now: Enterprise Data Architect, Metric5 |
![]() | Meng-Ying Li (Ph.D. 2008) "The M-Scale Model: A Multi-Scale Model for Decision Support of On-Site Remediation" Now: Senior system analyst, Taiwan GIS Center |
Alumni (Undergraduate and masters students) listed in order of departure
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Frank Sedlar (Research Assistant, 2011-2012) |
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Sophie Christian (Research Assistant 2008-2011) |
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Jill Ostrowski (Research Assistant, 2007-2010) |
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David Sena (Research Assistant, 2009-2010) |
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Christopher Baik (Research Assistant, 2008-2009) |
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Landon Smith (Research Assistant, 2008-2009) |
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Miranda (Katie) Malkin (Research Assistant, 2005) |
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Charles Humphriss (Research Assistant, 2005) |