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UCLA Logo Geophysical Boundary Layers and Turbulence Research Group

Group Members

Professor Marcelo Chamecki
Department Website
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Current Members

Gregory Torkelson
(Postdoctoral Scholar since 2023)

Isaiah Cuadras
(Graduate Student since 2021)

Anqi Song
(Graduate Student since 2023)

Margherita Rebottini
(Graduate Student since 2025)

Former Members

Former Ph.D. Students

Rodrigo Rodakoviski (Ph.D. 2024)
Dissertation: Turbulent mixing of settling dust in the Saharan Air Layer

Tomas Chor (Ph.D. 2020)
Dissertation: Material transport in the ocean surface boundary layer

Bicheng Chen (Ph.D. 2017)
Dissertation: The characteristics and modeling of oil dispersion in the ocean mixed layer from underwater blowout spill accidents

Livia S. Freire (Ph.D. 2016)
Dissertation: Characterization and modeling of atmospheric flow within and above plant canopies

Ying Pan (Ph.D. 2014)
Dissertation: Aerial dispersal of particles emitted inside plant canopies: application to the spread of plant diseases

Scott Salesky (M.S. 2010, Ph.D. 2014)
Dissertation: Monin-Obukhov similarity and convective organization in the unstable atmospheric boundary layer

Former Postdoctoral Scholars

Tong Bo (2023 – 2025)

Carlos Alvarez Zambrano (2020 – 2022)

Michael Heisel (2019 – 2023)

Chao Yan (2018 – 2021)

Bicheng Chen (2017 – 2019)

Anikesh Pal (2016 – 2017)

Tobias Gerken (2014 – 2016)

Ying Pan (2014 – 2015)

Former M.S. Students

Paulo Paes (M.S. 2015; co-advised with Dr. Brasseur)

Simone Gleicher (M.S. 2013)

James Limbacher (M.S. 2010)

Former UG Students (> 1 year)

Sierra Stevenson (2023 – 2024)

Jayde Meng (2020 – 2023)