AOSS Faculty | Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences at the University of Michigan, College of Engineering

	Faculty	Research Summary
	Sarah M Aciego Assistant Professor Office: 4022 CC Little aciego@umich.edu
	Natalia G Andronova Research Scientist Undergraduate Advisor, Climate Impact Engineering Office: 1541 D SRB — 2143 natand@umich.edu	Climate, climate change, climate dynamics, climate sensitivity, methane emissions, wetlands, atmospheric chemistry, radiation, system and feedback analysis
	Spiro Antiochos santioch@umich.edu
	Brian Arbic Assistant Professor, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Office: 3020 C. C. Little Bldg. arbic@umich.edu	Physical oceanography. Dynamics and energy budgets of oceanic mesoscale eddies, the large-scale oceanic general circulation, and tides. Paleotides. Ocean's role in climate. Numerical ocean modeling.
	Sushil Atreya Professor Office: 1531 SRB atreya@umich.edu	Planetary and Space Science http://esse.engin.umich.edu/psl
	John R Barker Professor Office: 1520 Space Research Building jrbarker@umich.edu	Computational chemical kinetics and dynamics
	Jeremy N. Bassis Assistant Professor Office: 2529 Space Research Building jbassis@umich.edu	Ice sheet and glacier dynamics Fracture mechanics Sea level rise Planetary science Complex systems
	Joseph E. Borovsky Adjunct Research Scientist borovsky@umich.edu	Structure of the solar-wind plasma. Solar-wind/magnetosphere coupling. Magnetospheric dynamics.
	Stephen W Bougher Andrew F. Nagy Collegiate Research Professor bougher@umich.edu	Comparative Planetary Upper Atmospheres
	John P Boyd Professor, also Civil & Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Advisor, Meteorology Concentration jpboyd@umich.edu	Analytical and numerical studies of waves and wave-related phenomena
	Mary Anne Carroll Professor mcarroll@umich.edu	Atmospheric chemistry and atmosphere-biosphere interactions
	Michael R Combi Distinguished Research Professor mcombi@umich.edu	Planetary Science and Cometary Physics
	Roger D. De Roo Lecturer III and Assistant Research Scientist Office: 2436A Space Research Building deroo@umich.edu	Microwave Remote Sensing
	Darren De Zeeuw Associate Research Scientist Office: 1411A SRB darrens@umich.edu	Multiscale MHD on solution adaptive grids. Visualization and graphics. Web design. Code development.
	R. Paul Drake Henry S. Carhart Collegiate Professor of Space Sciences PhD in Atmospheric and Space Sciences Advisor PhD in Space and Planetary Physics Advisor Director, CRASH rpdrake@umich.edu	Experimental, theoretical and computer simulation of laboratory, space and astrophysical plasmas
	Anthony (Tony) W. England Professor, AOSS and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Office: 2527A Space Research Building england@umich.edu	Land surface and cryosphere thermophysical models / Microwave radiometry / Radiobrightness models for prairie and arctic terrains; and the microwave brightness measure of water stored in soil, vegetation, and snow.
	Lennard A Fisk Thomas M. Donahue Distinguished University Professor of Space Science lafisk@umich.edu	Solar and Heliospheric Physics
	Mark Flanner Assistant Professor Office: 2527B Space Research Building flanner@umich.edu	Cryosphere-climate interaction and feedback Climate forcing by black carbon Ice sheet energy balance Snowpack microphysics Radiative transfer Climate model... (more)
	Richard A. Frazin Assistant Research Scientist Office: 1411C SRB 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... (more)
	Bruce Fryxell Research Scientist Office: 1424D fryxell@umich.edu
	Natalia Ganjushkina Assistant Research Scientist Office: 2438 SRB ganuna@umich.edu
	Jason A Gilbert Assistant Research Scientist Office: 2417A SRB jagi@umich.edu	Space Hardware/instrumentation, specifically ion optics and mass spectrometry. Characteristics of the solar wind, pickup ions, and other heliospheric plamsa.
	Brian E Gilchrist Co-Director, Multidisciplinary Design Program, College of Engineering Professor, AOSS and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science gilchrst@umich.edu	Plasma electrodynamics for space propulsion technology; plasma diagnostics
	George M. Gloeckler Research Professor 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... (more)
	Tamas I Gombosi Rollin M. Gerstacker Professor of Engineering Office: 1517 SRB tamas@umich.edu	Planetary science, space weather, heliospheric and magnetospheric physics, high-performance scientific computing
	Kenneth C Hansen Research Associate Professor kenhan@umich.edu	Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of comets and the magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn
	Xianglei Huang Associate Professor Office: 1541A Space Research Bldg. 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 Associate Professor Undergraduate Advisor, Climate Science Concentration Head of the Atmospheric Dynamics Modeling Group: http://esse.engin.umich.edu/admg/ Office: 1541B cjablono@umich.edu	Adaptive mesh refinement and variable-resolution techniques for weather and climate models Dynamical cores of General Circulation Models: Numerical methods, test cases,... (more)
	Xianzhe Jia Assistant Research Scientist Office: 1411B SRB xzjia@umich.edu	Modeling of planetary magnetospheres and magnetosphere-moon interactions; Magnetic properties of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn
	Paul A Keiter Associate Research Scientist Office: 2553 pkeiter@umich.edu
	Margaret G. Kivelson Research Professor mkivelso@umich.edu	Theory and data analysis of fields and particles in the solar system: properties of the internal magnetic fields of moons and planets, investigation and interpretation of fundamental magnetohydrodynamic processes in planetary... (more)
	Janet U. Kozyra George Carignan Collegiate Research Professor jukozyra@umich.edu	Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetosphere - Ionosphere - Atmosphere Coupling Processes, Earth and Planetary Aeronomy
	Carolyn C. Kuranz Assistant Research Scientist Center for Laser Experimental Astrophysical Research Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics http://aoss-research.engin.umich.edu/crash/ Office: 1424A SRB ckuranz@umich.edu
	Enrico Landi Associate Research Scientist Office: 2426 elandi@umich.edu	1 - Solar physics (transition region, corona, solar wind, CMEs, flares, abundances etc) 2 - X-ray, EUV, UV spectroscopy 3 - Spectral codes 4 - Spectroscopic diagnostic techniques 5 - Atomic physics
	Susan T. Lepri Associate Research Scientist slepri@umich.edu	Solar wind composition; MHD modeling; solar and heliospheric physics
	Michael W. Liemohn Associate Professor Office: 1436 SRB liemohn@umich.edu	Plasma transport in the ionosphere and magnetosphere of the Earth and other solar system bodies
	Ward (Chip) B Manchester Research Associate Professor chipm@umich.edu	Solar physics, space weather modeling and coronal mass ejections
	Frank J Marsik Associate Research Scientist SGUS/Atmospheric Science Advisor marsik@umich.edu	Synoptic and Boundary Layer Meteorology; Weather Forecasting; Air Quality
	Germán Martínez Assistant Research Scientist Office: 2215 gemartin@umich.edu	Water on Mars. Thermodynamics. The Martian Planetary Boundary Layer. Numerical Modeling.
	Darren McKague Assistant SPRL Director Assistant Research Scientist Office: 1104 SRB dmckague@umich.edu	Research interests include geophysical remote sensing - particularly passive microwave and inversion techniques - microwave radiometer design, and microwave radiometer calibration.
	Mark Moldwin Professor and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs Office: 1418 SRB mmoldwin@umich.edu	Space Plasma Physics Magnetospheric and Heliospheric Physics Upper Atmospheric Electricity Pre-College Space Science... (more)
	Eric S. Myra Associate Research Scientist Office: 1424B emyra@umich.edu	Computational astrophysics; radiation hydrodynamics; shock waves; high-energy-density physics; numerical analysis; parallel iterative solvers; high-performance computing; nuclear... (more)
	Richard J Niciejewski Associate Research Scientist Adjunct Lecturer Office: 2517C Space Research Building 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... (more)
	Christopher Parkinson Assistant Research Scientist theshire@umich.edu	Hydrodynamic escape from planetary atmospheres; photochemistry in extrasolar gas giant planetary atmospheres
	Joyce E Penner Associate Chair for Atmospheric Science and Ralph J. Cicerone Distinguished University Professor of Atmospheric Science 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 Assistant Professor Office: 2517D SRB 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... (more)
	Christopher J Poulsen Associate Professor, AOSS and Geological Sciences poulsen@umich.edu	Earth System History; paleoclimatology and paleoceanography
	Nilton O. Renno Professor Office: 1531C SRB nrenno@umich.edu	Thermodynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, and instrument development
	Aaron Ridley Associate Professor Undergraduate Advisor, Space Weather Concentration Office: 1416 Space Research Building 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 Professor Office: 2525 Space Research Building rbrood@umich.edu	ResearcherID Profile more)
	Christopher Ruf Director, Space Physics Research Laboratory Professor, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Professor, Electrical Engineering Office: 1533 SRB cruf@umich.edu	Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing Principal Investigator, NASA EV-2 Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System
	Perry Samson Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Atmospheric Science Office: 1539 Space Research Building 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 Research Professor 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 Research Scientist Office: 2517B wskinner@umich.edu	Remote sensing of the atmospheres of the Earth and planets, particularly with optical techniques
	James A. Slavin Professor and Chair Office: 1517 SRB jaslavin@umich.edu	Solar System Magnetic Fields Magnetospheric Physics Solar wind interactions with weakly-magnetized planets and comets; Space-borne Magnetometry
	Igor Sokolov Research Scientist Office: 1424B SRB igorsok@umich.edu	Modeling of solar engetic particles and space environment Data assimilation Geospace data analysis
	Allison L Steiner Associate Professor Office: 2517E Space Research Building alsteine@umich.edu	Biosphere-atmosphere interactions Regional climate modeling Chemistry-climate interactions
	Quentin F. Stout Professor, AOSS and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Office: 3605 CSE Building qstout@umich.edu	Parallel computing, algorithms, software, scientific and statistical computing, adaptive designs, mathematics
	Valeriy Tenishev Assistant Research Scientist Office: 2129B SRB vtenishe@umich.edu
	Gabor Toth Research Scientist Office: 1424C gtoth@umich.edu	Algorithm and code development for space and plasma physics simulations. Leading role in the development of Space Weather Modeling Framework that can couple and execute about a dozen different space physics... (more)
	Bart van der Holst Associate Research Scientist Office: 1432A SRB bartvand@umich.edu	Solar physics, space weather modeling, coronal mass ejections, and computational high energy density physics. Code development for space and laboratory plasmas. Design and development of radiation models... (more)
	Timothy Wallington Adjunct Professor twalling@umich.edu
	Daniel Welling Assistant Research Scientist dwelling@umich.edu
	Michael H Wong Visiting Research Scientist Mars Science Laboratory Collaborator Office: 1212 SRB catarrh@umich.edu
	Shasha Zou Assistant Research Scientist Office: 2132 SRB shashaz@umich.edu	Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling; Substorms; Inner Magnetospheric Electrodynamics; Ionospheric Electrodynamics; Aurora Physics
	Thomas Zurbuchen Professor, Space Science and Aerospace Engineering; Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship thomasz@umich.edu	Solar and Heliospheric Physics, Experimental Space Research

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