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Name Research Summary
Natalia G Andronova
natand@umich.edu
Climate, climate change, climate dynamics, ecology, 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 with an emphasis on atmospheric chemistry; development of master equation codes (MultiWell) for treating complicated unimolecular and recombination reaction systems.
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
C. Robert Clauer
rclauer@umich.edu
Magnetospheric Physics
Michael R Combi
mcombi@umich.edu
Planetary Science and Cometary Physics
Jason Daida
daida@umich.edu
Scientific data analysis with emphasis on computer-vision methods; remote sensing; design of unmanned aircraft vehicles for boundary-layer flux measurements; sea-ice geophysics
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
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.
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
  • 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
Janet U. Kozyra
jukozyra@umich.edu
Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetosphere - Ionosphere - Atmosphere Coupling Processes, Earth and Planetary Aeronomy
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
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
Geophysical remote sensing - particularly passive microwave and inversion techniques
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.
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
Christopher J Poulsen
poulsen@umich.edu
Earth System Hisotry; paleoclimatology and paleoceanography
Nilton Renno
nrenno@umich.edu
Atmospheric convection and climate
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 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 derpartments.  It's cool, and it's the future.

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
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 Holsts
bartvand@umich.edu
Thomas Zurbuchen
thomasz@umich.edu
Solar and Heliospheric Physics, Experimental Space Research





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