Christina Karamperidou
Assistant Professor
PhD: Columbia University, 2012
MSc: Environmental Protection & Sustainable Development, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2007
MSc: Hydraulics & Environmental Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2006
BSc: Civil & Environmental Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Madeline McKenna
PhD student
Education
M.A. Climate and Society, Columbia University, 2016
B.S. Environmental Science, Northeastern University, 2014
Research Interests:
ENSO dynamics & teleconnections, tropical-extratropical interactions, and connections between ENSO and extreme weather phenomena.
Zachary Menzo
PhD student
Education
MA: Climate Science and Policy, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UCSD, 2017
BS: Earth & Environmental Science, University of Michigan, 2013
Research Interests
Climate change, extreme weather, biogeochemical cycles, science communication, atmospheric chemistry, geoengineering
Jan van der Veken
Masters Student
Education
BS: Meteorology, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests
Tropical Cyclones, lightning, climate modeling and downscaling, weather risk management
Chaowat Siwapornchai
Masters Student
Education
BS: Earth Sciences, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
Research Interests
Climate change & variability, ENSO, climate modeling and forecasting
Former students
Jil Kiefer
PhD candidate
Education
M.Sc. Marine Geosciences, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany
B.Sc. Geophysics/Physical Oceanography, University of Hamburg, Germany
Research Interests:
ENSO dynamics and impacts, climate variability, paleoclimate and paleoclimate variability
Nicholas Modar
Undergraduate student
Education
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.