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  Mallick
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  Marsik
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  Meadows
  Michalak
  Moldwin
  Myra
  Nagy
  Niciejewski
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  Penner
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Emeritus Faculty

	Name	Research Summary
	Natalia G Andronova natand@umich.edu	Climate, climate change, climate dynamics, climate sensitivity, methane emissions, wetlands, atmospheric chemistry, radiation, system and feedback analysis
	Sushil Atreya atreya@umich.edu	Planetary and Space Science http://esse.engin.umich.edu/psl
	John R Barker jrbarker@umich.edu	Computational chemical kinetics and dynamics
	Jeremy N. Bassis jbassis@umich.edu	Ice sheet and glacier dynamics and ice sheet-ocean interaction Sea level rise Remote sensing Geophysical fluid dynamics
	Stephen W Bougher bougher@umich.edu	Comparative Planetary Upper Atmospheres
	John P Boyd jpboyd@umich.edu	Analytical and numerical studies of waves and wave-related phenomena
	Mary Anne Carroll mcarroll@umich.edu	Atmospheric chemistry and atmosphere-biosphere interactions
	Michael R Combi mcombi@umich.edu	Planetary Science and Cometary Physics
	Jason Daida daida@umich.edu	Theory and application of computational intelligence technologies that support open-ended problem solving, discovery, and innovation. This work has found application in earth and space sciences (e.g., pattern discovery in remotely sensed data), engineering education (e.g., curriculum and instruction of first-year students on complex problem solving), and genetic programming (e.g., automatic discovery of data models that exceed the performance of comparable expert-derived models).
	Roger D. De Roo deroo@umich.edu	Microwave Remote Sensing
	Darren De Zeeuw darrens@umich.edu	Multiscale MHD on solution adaptive grids
	R. Paul Drake rpdrake@umich.edu	Experimental, theoretical and computer simulation of laboratory, space and astrophysical plasmas
	Anthony (Tony) W. England england@umich.edu	Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Transport / Radiobrightness models for prairie and arctic terrains; and the microwave brightness measure of water stored in soil, vegetation and snow.
	Lennard A Fisk lafisk@umich.edu	Solar and Heliospheric Physics
	Mark Flanner flanner@umich.edu	Climate forcing of black carbon particles Cryosphere-climate interaction and feedback Ice sheet energy balance Snowpack microphysics Radiative transfer Climate model development
	Richard A. Frazin rfrazin@umich.edu	I have always been fascinated by how scientists learn about the Universe we all share. After all, no one can measure the temperature in the center of a star or see subatomic particles. This curiosity about the scientific learning process naturally led me to questions about the information content of various types of data. In particular, I have been researching issues that involve retrieving 3D (and more D) information from many types of 2D images of the Sun.
	Bruce Fryxell fryxell@umich.edu
	Natalia Ganjushkina ganuna@umich.edu
	Brian E Gilchrist gilchris@umich.edu	Plasma electrodynamics for space propulsion technology; plasma diagnostics
	George M. Gloeckler gglo@umich.edu	Properties of the local interstellar medium, such as its magnetic field, density and composition of its gas, and its interaction with the solar system utilizing a new sensing technique that led to his discovery of interstellar gas deep inside the solar system.
	Tamas I Gombosi tamas@umich.edu	Planetary science, space weather, heliospheric and magnetospheric physics, high-performance scientific computing
	Kenneth C Hansen kenhan@umich.edu	Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of comets and the magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn
	Xianglei Huang xianglei@umich.edu	Infrared radiative transfer and remote sensing; diagnostic analysis of satellite observations and climate simulations; hydrological cycle and its interaction with atmospheric radiation and dynamics; planetary atmospheres
	Christiane Jablonowski cjablono@umich.edu	Adaptive mesh refinement techniques for weather and climate models Dynamical cores of General Circulation Models: Numerical methods, test cases, intercomparisons Diffusion and subgrid-scale processes in dynamical cores Tropical cyclones Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) Parallel and high-performance computing
	Gerald J Keeler jkeeler@umich.edu	Measurement and modeling of the transport and fate of pollutants in the environment. Atmospheric modeling of the sources of atmospheric emissions. Understanding the atmospheric chemistry of atmospheric aerosols and their human health effects.
	Janet U. Kozyra jukozyra@umich.edu	Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetosphere - Ionosphere - Atmosphere Coupling Processes, Earth and Planetary Aeronomy
	Carolyn C. Kuranz ckuranz@umich.edu
	Susan T. Lepri slepri@umich.edu	Solar wind composition; MHD modeling; solar and heliospheric physics
	Michael W. Liemohn liemohn@umich.edu	Plasma transport in the ionosphere and magnetosphere of the Earth and other solar system bodies
	Bani Mallick bmallick@umich.edu
	Ward (Chip) Manchester chipm@umich.edu	Solar physics, space weather modeling and coronal mass ejections
	Frank J Marsik marsik@umich.edu	Air Pollution Meteorology and Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions
	Darren McKague dmckague@umich.edu	Research interests include geophysical remote sensing - particularly passive microwave and inversion techniques - microwave radiometer design, and microwave radiometer calibration.
	Guy A Meadows gmeadows@umich.edu	Physical oceanography,ocean engineering, ocean remote sensing, autonomous marine vehicles
	Anna M. Michalak amichala@umich.edu	Modeling and optimization methods for environmental systems, geostatistical interpolation and inverse modeling methods, atmospheric inverse modeling for greenhouse gas flux estimation.
	Mark Moldwin mmoldwin@umich.edu	Space Plasma Physics Magnetospheric and Heliospheric Physics Upper Atmospheric Electricity Pre-College Space Science Education Education Activities http://measure.igpp.ucla.edu/moldwin/
	Eric S. Myra emyra@umich.edu	Computational astrophysics; radiation hydrodynamics; shock waves; numerical analysis; parallel iterative solvers; high-performance computing; nuclear astrophysics; neutrino astrophysics; core-collapse supernovae; proto-neutron-star evolution
	Andrew Nagy anagy@umich.edu	Studies of the upper atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere of the Earth and other solar system bodies
	Richard J Niciejewski niciejew@umich.edu	Laboratory and remote field site investigations of the thermodynamics of the terrestrial upper atmosphere, including the mesosphere and thermosphere. Application of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared optical techniques to ionosphere modifications resulting from auroral particle precipitation
	Christopher Parkinson theshire@umich.edu	Hydrodynamic escape from planetary atmospheres; photochemistry in extrasolar gas giant planetary atmospheres
	Joyce E Penner penner@umich.edu	Cloud and aerosol interactions and cloud microphysics, climate and climate change, global tropospheric chemistry and budgets, model development and interpretation
	Derek J Posselt dposselt@umich.edu	Climate change effects on clouds and precipitation; clouds and precipitation associated with tropical convective cloud clusters and midlatitude cyclones; assimilation of cloud and precipitation data into mesoscale and cloud scale numerical models; nonlinear inverse problem theory; model error analysis
	Christopher J Poulsen poulsen@umich.edu	Earth System Hisotry; paleoclimatology and paleoceanography
	Nilton O. Renno nrenno@umich.edu	Thermodynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, and instrument development
	Aaron Ridley ridley@umich.edu	Magnetosphere - Ionosphere Coupling Thermospheric and Ionosphere Dynamics Modeling of the near-Earth space environment Data assimilation Geospace data analysis
	Richard B Rood rbrood@umich.edu	My current research is focused on bridging the study of weather and climate. I am funded by NASA to study dynamical features as objects and to develop new methods for analyzing climate models. I am funded by the Department of Energy to study sub-scale mixing processes in climate models. I teach a class on climate change and the interface of climate change with all aspects of society. This has evolved into a class on problem solving in climate change. This is a graduate class, taught in concert with the School of Natural Resources and Environment. The class includes business students, policy students, as well as students from several science departments. It's cool, and it's the future. Web link below. In addition, I have funding to study urban heat waves, human heat health warning systems, and how to govern open source / open innovation communities.
	Martin Rubin rubinmar@umich.edu
	Christopher Ruf cruf@umich.edu	Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing
	Perry Samson samson@umich.edu	Chemical meteorology; computer simulation of atmospheric transport and chemistry of contaminants, applications of meteorological and air pollution instrumentation; educational technology
	Sanford Sillman sillman@umich.edu	Tropospheric chemistry, models for global transport of chemically active species, urban and regional air quality, mathematical modeling for environmental processes
	Wilbert Skinner wskinner@umich.edu	Remote sensing of the atmospheres of the Earth and planets, particularly with optical techniques
	Igor Sokolov igorsok@umich.edu	Modeling of solar engetic particles and space environment Data assimilation Geospace data analysis
	Allison L Steiner alsteine@umich.edu	Biosphere-atmosphere interactions Regional climate modeling Chemistry-climate interactions
	Quentin F. Stout qstout@umich.edu	Parallel computing, algorithms, software, scientific and statistical computing, adaptive designs, mathematics
	Valeriy Tenishev vtenishe@umich.edu
	Gabor Toth gtoth@umich.edu	Parallel Computational Magneto-Fluid Dynamics
	Bart van der Holst bartvand@umich.edu
	Thomas Zurbuchen thomasz@umich.edu	Solar and Heliospheric Physics, Experimental Space Research