Group members
Group Lead
Christina Karamperidou
PhD: Columbia University, 2012
MS: Environmental Protection & Sustainable Development, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2007
MS: Hydraulics & Environmental Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2006
BS: Civil & Environmental Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
PhD Candidate
Madeline McKenna
MA: Climate and Society, Columbia University, 2016
BS: Environmental Science, Northeastern University, 2014
Research Interests:
ENSO dynamics & teleconnections, tropical-extratropical interactions, and connections between ENSO and extreme weather phenomena.
PhD student
Gerardo Rivera Tello
BS: Physics, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru, 2017
Research Interests
ENSO, climate modeling, Big Data, software design, Machine Learning, Data management, Neural Networks.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Charlie Robison
BA: Information & Computer Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi and Mānoa
Research Interests
Software Engineering, Web Development, Backend & Frontend Development, Database Design & Management, Data Science
Alumni/ae
MS, 2021
Chaowat Siwapornchai
Current Position: Meteorologist at Climate Center, Thai Meteorological Department
MS: Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
BS: Earth Sciences, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
Research Interests
Climate change & variability, ENSO, climate modeling and forecasting
BS, 2019
Nicholas Modar
MS: Earth & Climate Sciences, San Francisco State University
BS: Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, May 2019
AA: Social Science, American River College
Research Interests
Climate change, wildfire dynamics, predictability of wildfire weather, role of fire in global earth system processes.