Alex Charn is collaborating with Travis O’Brien on Rossby Wave Breaking and Atmospheric Rivers, and Coastal Climate Trend Downscaling. His Ph.D. was from UC Berkeley where he worked on extreme precipitation and lightning.
I study the mechanics and probabilistic elements of sediment transport and landscape evolution with Dr. Brian Yanites and Dr. Doug Edmonds. My work at IU focuses on describing the relationships between forests and surface characteristics, hydrology, and channel networks.
Sediment transport is the primary mechanism that shapes hills and valleys. However, although it is ubiquitous actually watching sediment move about is rarely achieved at relevant scales. Using mathematical theory, numerical modeling, carefully designed experiments, and field work, I work to describe the underlying physics, statistics, and probability of processes that shape the world around us but often evade observation.
Dr. Paul Goddard is a Post-Doctoral Fellow working in climate modeling.
“My previous research focused on regional sea level rise, Antarctic shelf water warming, and West Antarctic precipitation using global climate models. At IU, I am using a mesoscale numerical weather prediction model (WRF) to understand the impact of marine sky brightening on radiative forcing and on regional to global weather and climate.”
Before coming to IU, Paul used a combination of global climate model data and observations to research recent past, present, and future ocean circulation, ocean temperature, and atmospheric dynamics as they relate to global and regional sea level rise and climate change.
Jovanka is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Dr. Kravitz’s group, working on computational fluid dynamics simulations of wind plants to quantify uncertainty for wind energy. Before coming to IU, Jovanka used regional models to study fire-atmosphere interactions, land-atmosphere interactions, and effects of land use/land cover change on climate over the continental US.
Dr. Huong Nguyen-Van was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Dr. Arndt Schimmelmann’s laboratory this summer. His research title is Paleoclimatology of Holocene and Pleistocene sediment from Vietnamese lakes, including maars.
Human population has exponentially grown ever since the Last Glacial Maximum. This event has had tragic impacts in modern ecosystems, transformed the landscape and affected ecological interactions at all levels. Thus, pre-human habitat preferences may inform of the environmental conditions that can maximize a species’ fitness. My goal is to advance conservation biology using ecological models that incorporate both modern and recent-past ecosystems.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate working with Andrea Stevens Goddard in the Thermochronology Lab. I am using low-temperature thermochronology to explore erosion and transport rates of sediments from cratonic source rocks into intracratonic basins in North America.
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