Department of Atmospheric Sciences

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. 

Professor Rob Wood, doctoral student Michael Diamond, and research scientist Ryan Eastman were highlighted in the UW News for their research on ship emissions! Their work was also selected for AGU’s Editors’ Highlights on Eos.org! 

Leaders throughout the College of the Environment are closely monitoring the local outbreak of the novel coronavirus and are making every effort to address the changing needs of the college community, wherever possible. 

Congratulations to Conor McNicholas for receiving a first place award in the AMS AI for Environmental Science Conference Student Presentation Contest for his presentation “Smartphone Pressure Analysis with Machine Learning and Kriging.” 

August Mikkelsen, a junior in Atmospheric Sciences was highlighted in The Daily for his research on mixed phase clouds! 

Consider this: the U.S. West Coast has seen a decrease in rainfall between 1981-2018. UW scientists think a phenomenon called the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) might be to blame. A stormy disturbance that occurs several times a year in the tropics, the MJO is similar to the El Nino Southern Oscillation, which is notorious for generating extreme winter weather in the Pacific Northwest. 

Congratulations to Michael Diamond for receiving the Best Student Presentation Award at the American Meteorological Society’s 2020 Annual Meeting/22nd Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification!