Research Group in Miami

Postdocs / Research Staff

From Summer 2008: 1-yr Position Available. Coastal ocean ensembles and adaptive sampling.
From Summer 2008: Dr Eric Rappin. Environmental influences on typhoon core dynamics.
2004-2005: Dr Daniel Hodyss (now at NRL Monterey). Understanding the influence of observations in global models.

Graduate Students

From Fall 2008: Munehiko Yamaguchi. T-PARC
From Fall 2008: Will Komaromi. T-PARC
2006-present: Guy Cascella (M.S. candidate) (w/ Joe Cione). The role of Aerosonde observations in analyses of Ophelia (2005) and Noel (2007)
2004-2007: Kathryn Sellwood, M.S. (now at NOAA Hurricane Research Division). Predicting the influence of observations on 3-6 day forecasts of winter weather.

Undergraduate Students

2007-present: Peter Finocchio. Evaluating multi-model ensemble forecasts of hurricanes and typhoons.
2005-2007: Michael Hernandez (now at Penn State). Synoptic influences on Katrina (2005) prior to landfall in South Florida.
2003-2005: David Kofron (now at U.Arizona). Targeted observations to improve forecasts of winter weather and extratropical transition of tropical cyclones.

Collaborators

Tropical Cyclones

Sim Aberson, Joe Cione, Jason Dunion, Robert Rogers, Eric Uhlhorn (NOAA / AOML / HRD)
Bob Atlas (NOAA / AOML)
Chris Velden, Howard Berger (CIMSS/U. Wisconsin)
Craig Bishop, Rolf Langland, Melinda Peng, Carolyn Reynolds (NRL Monterey)
Roberto Buizza (ECMWF)
Shuyi Chen (U. Miami)
Chun-Chieh Wu, Jan-Huey Chen (National Taiwan University)
Tetsuo Nakazawa (Japanese Meteorological Research Institute)

Winter Weather

Yucheng Song, Zoltan Toth (NOAA / NCEP / EMC)
Dan Hodyss (NRL Monterey)
Gudrun Nina Petersen (U. East Anglia)

Tropical Meteorology

Chidong Zhang (U. Miami)
Chris Thorncroft (SUNY Albany)

Ocean Sampling

Craig Bishop, Xiaodong Hong (NRL Monterey)
Yi Chao, Zhijin Li, John Farrara (NASA JPL)
Pierre Lermusiaux (Harvard)
Jim Bellingham, Yanwu Zhang (MBARI)
Naomi Leonard (Princeton)