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Professor Marcelo Chamecki
<\/strong>Department Website<\/a>
Google Scholar
<\/a>Researchgate<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Current Members<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gregory Torkelson<\/a>
(Postdoctoral Scholar since 2023)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Isaiah Cuadras<\/a>
(Graduate Student since 2021)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Anqi Song<\/a>
(Graduate Student since 2023)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Margherita Rebottini
(Graduate Student since 2025)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Former Members<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Ph.D. Students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rodrigo Rodakoviski<\/a> (Ph.D. 2024)
Dissertation: Turbulent mixing of settling dust in the Saharan Air Layer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomas Chor<\/a> (Ph.D. 2020)
Dissertation: Material transport in the ocean surface boundary layer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bicheng Chen<\/a> (Ph.D. 2017)
Dissertation: The characteristics and modeling of oil dispersion in the ocean mixed layer from underwater blowout spill accidents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Livia S. Freire<\/a> (Ph.D. 2016)
Dissertation: Characterization and modeling of atmospheric flow within and above plant canopies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ying Pan<\/a> (Ph.D. 2014)
Dissertation: Aerial dispersal of particles emitted inside plant canopies: application to the spread of plant diseases<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott Salesky<\/a> (M.S. 2010, Ph.D. 2014)
Dissertation: Monin-Obukhov similarity and convective organization in the unstable atmospheric boundary layer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Former Postdoctoral Scholars<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tong Bo<\/a> (2023 – 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlos Alvarez Zambrano (2020 – 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Heisel<\/a> (2019 – 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chao Yan (2018 – 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bicheng Chen<\/a> (2017 – 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anikesh Pal<\/a> (2016 – 2017)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tobias Gerken<\/a> (2014 – 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ying Pan<\/a> (2014 – 2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Former M.S. Students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paulo Paes (M.S. 2015; co-advised with Dr. Brasseur)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simone Gleicher (M.S. 2013)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Limbacher (M.S. 2010)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Former UG Students<\/strong> (> 1 year)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sierra Stevenson (2023 – 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jayde Meng (2020 – 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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