Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science

Professor Dale Durran is named the 2026 NVIDIA Research Faculty Fellow for his contributions to research collaboration on AI for Earth system prediction!  Prof. Durran has a 25% appointment at NVIDIA as a principal research scientist, with “a research focus on deep learning earth-system modeling for sub-seasonal and seasonal forecasting, forecast ensembles, and generative methods for fine-scale modeling of convective precipitation and other mesoscale fields.”
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“NASA announced on Thursday last week that both the University of Washington STRIVE team and the UW-affiliated EDGE team were selected to lead satellite missions to better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee environmental events and mitigate disasters.” The STRIVE (Stratosphere Troposphere Response using Infrared Vertically-resolved light Explorer) mission is led by Professor Lyatt Jaeglé from the Department, and the EDGE (Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer) mission is led by Helen Amanda Fricker at the University of California, San Diego.