Department of Atmospheric Sciences

Congratulations to professor/chair Cecilia Bitz, professor Joel Thornton, and research assistant professor Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth for being selected as UW Earthlab 2020 Innovation Grant recipients! 

Grad student Adam Sokol wrote a piece for The Conversation to teach kids about the wind! Check it out! 

Check out this work collaborated on by Professor Joel Thornton, research scientist Ben Lee, postdoc Brett Palm, grad student Qiaoyun Peng, and undergrad Kira Melander! This new study highlights the role of HONO emissions with over 200 wildfire plumes sampled with the NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory C-130 aircraft. 

Check out this blog post by graduate student Lily Hahn about her work on a feasibility study with AGU’s Thriving Earth Exchange and her work with peers to create UW PCC‘s community program! 

Congratulations to Vince Cooper, currently department research staff, for winning a DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Vince will be a first-year student in our department in fall 2020 

Congratulations to Jonathan Weyn for winning the best paper award at the ICLR 2020 Workshop for a paper he co-authored, WeatherBench: A benchmark dataset for data-driven weather forecasting. 

New research by Professor David Battisti and former postdoc Michelle Tigchelaar shows the number of unsafe days in crop-growing counties will jump to 39 days per season under 2 degrees Celsius warming, which is expected by 2050, and to 62 unsafe days under 4 degrees Celsius warming, which is expected by 2100. 

Check out this piece in the UW Daily featuring work by Professor Lynn McMurdie and Affiliate Assistant Professor Aaron Donohoe on Seattle’s lag between temperatures and the seasons! 

Grad students Katie Brennan and Lucas Vargas Zeppetello were featured at grad.uw.edu for their work on diversity and inclusion. Katie is featured for advocating for diversity in STEM and Lucas is featured for advocating for diversity in climate science! 

Congratulations to Isabel McCoy for being selected as one of eight new recipients of a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship! Through this program, fellows will be hosted by mentoring scientists at universities and research institutions around the country to conduct projects on climate variability and change.