About our Group

Post-Doctoral Research Associates

Quixuan Zheng, Ph.D. (Atmospheric Scientist): Modeling the Impact of Wind Farms on Surface Currents and Marine Boundary Layer conditions 

Fernando Pareja-Roman (Oceanographer and Atmospheric Scientist): Modeling the Impact of Wind Farms on Surface Currents and Marine Boundary Layer conditions

Current Students

Stephanie Braddock (Ph.D.); Process Mechanics of Subtropical Boundary Layers

Past Students

Matt Drews (M.S.): Development of a next generation Rutgers Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Site

Quixuan Zheng, Ph.D. (2024): Summertime Marine Boundary Layer Clouds over Eastern North Atlantic: Morphological Transitions, Mesoscale Organization, and Physical Mechanisms

John Pavacic, M.S. (2021): Harvesting Solar Energy in New Jersey and the New York City Metropolitan Area: Factors Influencing the Local-Scale Radiation Budget and Its Effect on Photovoltaic Collection Systems.  John is currently employed as an Environmental Scientist at the Fresh Kills Reclamation Project in New York.

Melissa Kazemirad, Ph.D. (2020): Summertime Post-Cold-Front Marine Stratocumulus Transition Processes over the Eastern North Atlantic.  Melissa is currently employed as a Data Scientist at Nielsen Inc.

Jennifer Kafka, Ph.D. (2020): Solar Energy Collection in Complex Radiation Fields: Implications for Large and Infrastructure-Constrained Panel Arrays.  Jennifer is currently employed by Louis Dreyfus Company.

Zhongyu Kuang, M.S., Ph.D. ABD (2017): Self Organizing Maps of Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Structure.  Zhongyu is currently employed as a Software Engineer at Google.

Lynne Trabachino, Ph.D. (2016): Simulations of Rainfall in the West African Sahel at Seasonal Time Scales.  Lynne is currently employed as a Meteorologist/Research Environmental Scientist at RTI International and as the Chief Atmospheric Scientist at GeoSapient, Inc.

Allison Marquardt Collow, Ph.D. (2015): An Analysis of the Radiation Budget in Two Tropical Continental Atmospheric Columns.  Allison is currently employed by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County a Scientist in the Science and Exploration Directorate at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

David Langer, M.S. (2015): Line-by-Line Radiation Transfer Modeling.

Preethi Ganapathy, M.S. (2012): Three-Dimensional Radiation Transfer, Preethi is currently employed as a Professor of Physics at County College of Morris, Morris Plains, NJ.

 

Past Research Associates

Virendra Ghate, Ph.D.(2009-2013):  In addition to contributing to the group’s research, Virendra advised students and taught a course in Physical Meteorology.  Virendra is currently employed as a Scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory.

Past and Present G.H. Cook Honors Scholars

Julia O’Neill (2023-2024)

Angela Poulos (2022-2023)

Zachary Mages (2019-2020)

Joey Fogarty (2017-2018)

Alexa Marcovecchio (2017-2018)

Valerie Thaler (2017-2018)

Jacob Carlin (Spring 2012; Co-Advisor with V. Ghate)

Jeffrey Deppa (2010-2011)