Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science

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. 

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!