AOS is delighted to announce the hiring of Dr. Yue Dong, who will be joining the department as an Assistant Professor next academic year in 2024. Dr. Dong is a climate scientist studying climate dynamics and climate change. Her research focuses on large-scale coupled climate interactions and their impact on climate sensitivity and the global energy budget. Dr. Dong’s group is accepting graduate applications this year, with potential research topics including extratropical-tropical interactions, the Southern Ocean and Antarctic climate, global surface warming patterns, and climate sensitivity. For more information on Dr. Dong’s research, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/yuedong-atmos/home or contact her at ydong@atmos.ucla.edu.