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Post-Doctoral Research Associates<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Quixuan Zheng, Ph.D. (Atmospheric Scientist): <\/strong>Modeling the Impact of Wind Farms on Surface Currents and Marine Boundary Layer conditions \/ Marine Boundary Layer Clouds
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Current Students<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Stephanie Braddock (Ph.D.)<\/strong>; Process Mechanics of Subtropical Boundary Layers<\/p>\n

Andrea John (M.S.)<\/strong>; Winds and Transportation in Western US<\/p>\n

Kathryn Davies (M.S.)<\/strong>; Tropical Cyclones<\/p>\n

Matt Umano (M.S.)<\/strong>; Sea Salt Aerosol Modeling<\/p>\n

Past Students<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Matt Drews (M.S.):<\/strong> Development of a next generation Rutgers Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Site. Matt is currently a staff member in the Rutgers Office of Climate Action and is the Director of the Rutgers Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Site.<\/p>\n

Quixuan Zheng, Ph.D. (2024):<\/strong>\u00a0Summertime Marine Boundary Layer Clouds over Eastern North Atlantic:\u00a0Morphological Transitions, Mesoscale Organization, and Physical Mechanisms<\/p>\n

John Pavacic, M.S. (2021)<\/strong>: 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.\u00a0 John is currently employed as an Environmental Scientist at the Fresh Kills Reclamation Project in New York.<\/p>\n

Melissa Kazemirad, Ph.D. (2020)<\/strong>: Summertime Post-Cold-Front Marine Stratocumulus Transition Processes over the Eastern North Atlantic.\u00a0 Melissa is currently employed as a Data Scientist at Nielsen Inc.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Kafka, Ph.D. (2020)<\/strong>: Solar Energy Collection in Complex Radiation Fields: Implications for Large and Infrastructure-Constrained Panel Arrays.\u00a0 Jennifer is currently employed by Louis Dreyfus Company.<\/p>\n

Zhongyu Kuang, M.S., Ph.D. ABD (2017)<\/strong>: Self Organizing Maps of Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Structure.\u00a0 Zhongyu is currently employed as a Software Engineer at Google.<\/p>\n

Lynne Trabachino, Ph.D. (2016)<\/strong>: Simulations of Rainfall in the West African Sahel at Seasonal Time Scales.\u00a0 Lynne is currently employed as a Meteorologist\/Research Environmental Scientist at RTI International and as the Chief Atmospheric Scientist at GeoSapient, Inc.<\/p>\n

Allison Marquardt Collow, Ph.D. (2015)<\/strong>: An Analysis of the Radiation Budget in Two Tropical Continental Atmospheric Columns.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

David Langer, M.S. (2015)<\/strong>: Line-by-Line Radiation Transfer Modeling.<\/p>\n

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

Past Research Associates<\/b><\/em><\/h4>\n

Virendra Ghate, Ph.D.(2009-2013)<\/strong>:\u00a0 In addition to contributing to the group’s research, Virendra advised students and taught a course in Physical Meteorology.\u00a0 Virendra is currently employed as a Scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory.<\/p>\n

Past and Present G.H. Cook Honors Scholars<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Julia O\u2019Neill<\/strong> (2023-2024)<\/p>\n

Angela Poulos<\/strong> (2022-2023)<\/p>\n

Zachary Mages<\/strong> (2019-2020)<\/p>\n

Joey Fogarty<\/strong> (2017-2018)<\/p>\n

Alexa Marcovecchio<\/strong> (2017-2018)<\/p>\n

Valerie Thaler<\/strong> (2017-2018)<\/p>\n

Jacob Carlin<\/strong> (Spring 2012; Co-Advisor with V. Ghate)<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Deppa<\/strong> (2010-2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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