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Group Members

Thesis advising:

Matt Walker:  Tidal dissipation in Europa and other icy moons (August 2017)

Sean Faulk:  Planetary climate dynamics; Titan’s methane hydrology (May 2018)

Hung-I Lee:  Mechanisms driving variability of the monsoons (June 2019)

Tersi Arias-Young:  Titan’s methane clouds; observations and simulations 

Matthew McKinney:  The effect of land on the inner edge of the habitable zone 

Francisco Spaulding-Astudillo: Clouds and the habitable zone

Postdoc advising:

Juan Lora:  now faculty at Yale University

Spencer Hill:  now postdoc at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Univ.

Kunio Sayanagi:  now faculty at Hampton University

Peng Wang:  now with Citibank (vice president role)

Visiting graduate student advising:

João dias Pinto:  now in the Brazilian banking sector

Sander van Oers:  now in PhD program in Belgium

Undergrad advising:

Jeff Portwood ‘12:  abrupt climate change on Titan

Henry Cheung ’13:  cloud-tracking-based wind measurements on Saturn

Jenny Nguyen-Lee ‘16:  methane clouds on Titan observed by NASA’s Cassini mission

Minhthu Pham ’16:  precipitation changes in Vietnam since Last Glacial Maximum