David S. Battisti
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Current Students


  • Climate Dynamics, Land Atmosphere Interaction
    Lily Zhang

  • Climate Dynamics
    Manali Nayak (Atmospheric Sciences, co-advised Kyle Armour)

  • Climate Dynamics
    Jay Pillai (Atmospheric Sciences, co-advised Kyle Armour)
  • Current Postdocs

    Recent (2010 - present) Graduates


    • Lily Hahn (co-advised w/ Kyle Armou; Phd 2023, NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, Scripps)
      Polar climate

    • Yue Dong (Phd 2021, now Assistant Professor, University of California Berekeley)
      Climate sensitivity

    • Lucas Vargas Zeppetello (Phd 2021, now Assistant Professor, University of California Berkeley)
      Land-atmosphere interaction

    • Xiaojuan Liu (Phd 2019, now Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. of California Berkeley)
      Paleoclimate dynamics

    • Elizabeth Maroon (Phd 2016, now Assistant Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin)
      Ocean Thermohaline Circulation

    • Nathan Steiger (Phd 2016, now Research Scientist, Columbia University)
      State Estimation Using Proxy Data and Dynamical Constraints

    • Alyssa Atwood (co-advised w/ Julian Sachs; PhD 2015; now Assistant Professor, Florida State University)
      Tropical Pacific Climate During the Holocene

    • Etienne Tetreault-Pinard (MS 2013, now sofware engineer, Montreal CA)
      Land Atmosphere Interaction

    • Kelly McCusker (co-advised w/ Cecilia Bitz; Ph.D. 2013; now Senior Climate Scientist, Rhodium Group)
      Engineering Against Global Warming

    • Sandra Penny (Ph.D. 2012; now Professor, Sage College)
      Lee Cyclogenesis

    • Hansi Singh (co-advised w/ Cecilia Bitz; phd 2016; now Assistant Professor, Univ. of Victoria)
      Glacial Climates and Abrupt Climate Change

    • Angie Pendergrass (co-advised w/ Gerard Roe and Greg Hakim, PhD 2015, now Assistant Professor, Cornell U.)
      Paleodata Assimilation

    • Aaron Donohoe (Ph.D. 2011; now Research Scientist UW))
      Global Energy Transport

    • Robert Nicholas (Ph.D. 2011; Associate Research Professor, Penn State University)
      Climate Change and Agriculture

    • Francesco Pausata (Ph.D. 2010; now Associate Professor, University of Quebec in Montreal)
      Oxygen Isotopes and Climate History

    • Katherine Dayem (Geophysics, University of Colorado, co-advised w/ Gerard Roe and Peter Molnar; Ph.D. 2010)
      The Asian Monsson

    Recent (2010 - present) Postdocs





    • Brian Greene (2018-2020, now Stanford University)
      Climate Dynamics


    • Robb Wills (2016-2020, now Research Scientists, University of Washington)
      Climate Dynamics


    • Cristi Proitosescu (2018-2019, now Assistant Prof. Univ. of Illinois)
      Climate Dynamics

    • (Rachel White (2016-1019), now Assistant Prof. University of British Columbia)
      Climate Dynamics

    • Andy Rhines (2015-2017, now senior analyst Netflix)
      Climate Dynamics

    • Ian Eisenman (2010-2011, now Associate Prof. Scripps)
      Sea Ice and Climate

    • Qinghua Ding (2010-2013, now Associate Prof. UCSB)
      The Asian Monsoon: past and present

    Last updated Oct 2023