Alumni
Amy Hendricks
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2024
Email: ashendricks@alaska.edu
Advisor: Uma Bhatt
Committee member(s): Gerald Frost, Nathan Kettle, Igor Polyakov, Sarah Trainor
Thesis/Dissertation:
Climate Variability, Trends, and Impacts on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta With Insights Into Relationship-Building to Enhance Climate Science
Sarah Thunberg
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2021
Advisor: John Walsh & Eugenie Euskirchen
Committee member(s): Uma Bhatt
Thesis/Dissertation:
A Comparison of Surface Moisture Budget and Structural Equation Models in High Latitudes: Evapotranspiration and Atmospheric Drivers
James White
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2021
Advisor: John Walsh
Committee member(s): Uma Bhatt, Rick Thoman
Jennifer Alspach
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2020
Advisor: Richard Collins
Committee member(s): Katrina Bossert, Javier Fochesatto, Denise Thorsen
Thesis/Dissertation:
Lidar and Satellite Studies of Noctilucent Clouds Over Alaska
Maryam Bu khader
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2020
Advisor: Bhatt, U.
Committee member(s): Santosh Panda, Nicole Moelders, T. Scott Rupp
Thesis/Dissertation:
Climate Drivers of Interior Alaska Wildland Fire (1994-2017)
Yang Yang
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2020
Advisor: Xiangdong Zhang
Committee member(s): Seth Danielson, Javier Fochesatto, Regine Hock
Thesis/Dissertation:
Characteristics of Arctic Storms and Their Impact on Surface Climate
Jennifer Alspach
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2020
Advisor: Richard Collins
Committee member(s): Katrina Bossert, Javier Fochesatto, Denise Thorsen
Thesis/Dissertation:
Lidar and Satellite Studies of Noctilucent Clouds Over Alaska
Stanley Edwin
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2020
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Committee member(s): Richard Collins, Javier fochesato, Martin Stufer
Thesis/Dissertation:
Current Exposure of Yukon Flats Tribal Villages’ Residents to PM2.5 from Natural and Anthropogenic Sources: Establishing Baselines for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
Till Baumann
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2019
Advisor: Igor Polyakov
Thesis/Dissertation:
Response of Major Modes of Eastern Arctic Ocean Variability to Climate Change
Jonathan Chriest
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2019
Advisor: Bhatt, U.
Committee member(s): Walsh, J., Bieniek, P.
Jintai Li
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2019
Advisor: Richard Collins
Thesis/Dissertation:
Lidar and Radar Studies of Turbulence and Waves in the Arctic Middle Atmosphere
Liran Peng
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2019
Advisor: Zhang, X.
Thesis/Dissertation:
Impacts of Storm on Sea Ice From Case Study to Climate Scale Analysis
Alexander Semenov
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2019
Advisor: Zhang, X.
Thesis/Dissertation:
Modeling Investigation of Interaction Between Arctic Sea Ice and Storms: Insights from Case Studies and Climatological Hindcast Simulations
Jacob Stroh
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2019
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Thesis/Dissertation:
Data Analysis and Data Assimilation of Arctic Ocean Observations
Tyler Summers
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2019
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Committee member(s): Javier Fochesatto, Mariel Friberg
Lei Cai
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2018
Advisor: Vladimir Alexeev
Thesis/Dissertation:
Global and Local Contributors to the Historical and Projected Climate Change on the North Slope of Alaska
Richard Lader Jr
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2018
Thesis/Dissertation:
Emergent Impact of Rapidly Changing Climate Extremes in Alaska.
Ipshita Majhi
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2018
Thesis/Dissertation:
Hydroclimate in Eurasia from the Arctic to the Tropics
Hannah Brink
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2017
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Committee member(s): Javier Fochesatto, David Newman, Igor Polyakov
Abraham Melesse Endalamaw
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2017
Advisor: Bob Bolton
Thesis/Dissertation:
Development of a Parameterization for mesoscale hydrological modeling and application to landscape and climate change in the Interior Alaska boreal forest ecosystem
Stanley Edwin
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2016
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Thesis/Dissertation:
Climatology and Forcing Mechanisms of Funnel Clouds in Alaska
Amy Hendricks
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2016
Advisor: Walsh, J.
Thesis/Dissertation:
Late Quaternary and Future Biome Simulations for Alaska and Eastern Russia
Jintai Li
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2016
Advisor: Richard Collins
Thesis/Dissertation:
Radar Studies of Turbulence and Lidar Studies of The Nickel Layers in The Arctic Mesosphere
Colin Triplett
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2016
Advisor: Richard Collins
Thesis/Dissertation:
Rocket and LIDAR Studies of Waves and Turbulence in the Arctic Middle Atmoshere
Stanley Edwin
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2016
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Committee member(s): Uma Bhatt, Richard Collins
Thesis/Dissertation:
Climatology and forcing mechanisms of funnel clouds in Alaska
Mary Butwin
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2015
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Committee member(s): Uma Bhatt, Richard Collins
Thesis/Dissertation:
Theoretical Investigations on Strategies for Sampling Metoerological and Chemical Field Quantities in Smoke Plumes Using UAVS
Greg Deemer
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2015
Advisor: Uma Bhatt and Hajo Eicken
Committee member(s): Seth Danielson, Jennifer Hutchings
Thesis/Dissertation:
On Using Numerical Sea-Ice Prediction and Indigenous Observations to Improve Operational Sea-Ice Forecasts During Spring in the Bering Sea
Kayetha Vinay
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2015
Advisor: Richard Collins
Thesis/Dissertation:
Ice Clouds over Fairbanks, Alaska
Derek Starkenburg
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2015
Advisor: Javier Fochesatto & Anupma Prakash
Committee member(s): Jordi Cristóbal, Rudiger Gens, Douglas Kane
Thesis/Dissertation:
The Analysis of Turbulent Sensible Heat Fluxes within a Heterogeneous Black Spruce Boreal Forest in Alaska
Reynir Winnan
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2015
Advisor: Uma Bhatt
Committee member(s): Richard Collins, Renate Wackerbauer, John Walsh
Thesis/Dissertation:
Using Self-Organizing Maps to Detail Synoptic Connections Between Climate Indices and Alaska Weather
Soumik Basu
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2014
Advisor: Zhang, X.
Committee member(s): Uma Bhatt, Nicole Mölders, Igor Polyakov
Thesis/Dissertation:
Modeling investigation of Northern Hemisphere Extratropical Storm Variability and Changes in a Warming Climate
Cecelia Borries
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2014
Advisor: Xiangdong Zhang
Thesis/Dissertation:
Atmospheric Moisture Transport and Its Impact on the Water Cycle over the North Pacific: The Roles of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and El Nino
Bithi De
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2014
Advisor: Xiangdong Zhang
Thesis/Dissertation:
Arctic Spring Transition in a Warming Climate: Analysis by Using a Reanalysis Dataset
Kayetha Vinay
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2014
Advisor: Kenneth Sassen
Committee member(s): Richard Collins, Nicole Mölders
Thesis/Dissertation:
Ice Clouds Over Fairbanks', Alaska
Richard Lader Jr
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2014
Advisor: Uma Bhatt
Committee member(s): Igor Polyakov, Scott Rupp, John Walsh
Thesis/Dissertation:
An Evaluation of Reanalysis Products for Alaska to Facilitate Climate Impact Studies
James Madden
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2014
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Thesis/Dissertation:
Using WRF/CHEm Surface Observations, and CALIPSO Data to Develop Synthetic Pixels for the Assessment of Smoke Signals at High Latitudes
Michael Pirhalla
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2014
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Committee member(s): Uma Bhatt, Scott Gende, Igor Polyakov
Thesis/Dissertation:
Assessment of Particulate Accumulation Climatology under Inversions in Glacier Bay for the 2008 Tourist Season Using WRF/Chem Data
Joshua Walston
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2014
Advisor: Georgina Gibson
Thesis/Dissertation:
Evaluation of High Latitude Variability, with a Focus on Bering Sea Extremes Simulated by the Community Earth System Model, Version 1
Mattew Allen Gruber
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2013
Advisor: Javier Fochesatto
Thesis/Dissertation:
Sensitivity Analysis and Solution Method for Scintillometer Measurements of Area-Average Turbulent Fluxes
Ketsiri Leelasakultum
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2013
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Thesis/Dissertation:
Investigation on the Impacts of Low-Sulfur Fuel Used in Residential Heating and Oil-Fired Power Plants on PM2.5-Concentrations and its Composition in Fairbanks', Alaska
Cameron Martus
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2013
Advisor: Richard Collins
Thesis/Dissertation:
Exploration of Mesospheric Metal Layers from Chatanika, Alaska
Peter Bieniek
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2012
Advisor: Uma Bhatt
Thesis/Dissertation:
Assessing River Ice Breakup Date, Coastal Tundra Vegetation and Climate Divisions in the Context of Alaska Climate Variability
Ted Fathauer
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2012
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Thesis/Dissertation:
The Relation of Spring Pollen Release to Weather in Fairbanks, Alaska
Oceana Puananilei Francis
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2012
Advisor: David Atkinson and Uma Bhatt
Thesis/Dissertation:
Atmospheric Forcing of Wave States in the Southeast Chukchi Sea
Brita Irving
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2012
Advisor: Richard Collins
Thesis/Dissertation:
Rayleigh LIDAR studies of Mesospheric Inversion layers at Poker Flat Research Range, Chatanika, Alaska
Huy Nguyen Quang Tran
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2012
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Thesis/Dissertation:
Analyiss of Model and Observation Data for the Development of a Public PM2.5 Air-Quality Advisories Tool (AQuAT)
Dyre Dammann
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2011
Advisor: Uma Bhatt
Thesis/Dissertation:
Role of Arctic Sea Ice Variability in Climate Models
Paula Doubrawa Moreira
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2011
John Mayfield Jr
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2011
Advisor: Javier Fochesatto
Thesis/Dissertation:
The Micrometeorological Effects of Drainage Flow in the Winter Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Paula Moreira
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2011
Advisor: Xiangdong Zhang
Thesis/Dissertation:
Mesoscale Modeling of a Polar Low in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas
Jeanie Talbot
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2011
Advisor: Uma Bhatt
Thesis/Dissertation:
Use of Hurst and Renyi Analysis to Detect and Characterize Pacific Decadal Oscillation Impacts on Climate Variability in Alaska
Jiang Zhu
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2011
Advisor: Kenneth Sassen
Thesis/Dissertation:
Investigation on Cirrus Clouds by the Cloud-Aerosol LIDAR and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation Data
Austin Cross
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2010
Advisor: David Atkinson
Thesis/Dissertation:
Synoptic drivers of storm surge In Kotzebue Sound
Rebecca Legatt
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2010
Advisor: Igor Polyakov
Thesis/Dissertation:
North Atlantic Air-Sea Interactions Driven by Atmospheric and Oceanic Stochastic Forcing in a Simple Box Model
Julie Malingowski
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2010
Advisor: David Atkinson
Thesis/Dissertation:
An Observational study of the surfaced--based radiation temperature inversion in Fairbanks, Alaska
Michelle Dos Santos Mesquita
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2009
Advisor: David Atkinson
Thesis/Dissertation:
Characteristics and variability of storm tracks in the North Pacific', Bering Sea and Alaska
Agatha Podrasky
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2009
Advisor: Richard Collins
Thesis/Dissertation:
Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Resonance Fluorescence Lidar for Measurements of N+2 in the Auroral Atmosphere
Jennifer March
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2009
Thesis/Dissertation:
Synoptic Climatology of the Eastern Brooks Range, Alaska: A Data Legacy of the International Geophysical Year
Debasish Pai Mazumder
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2009
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Thesis/Dissertation:
A concept to access the performance of a permafrost model run fully coupled with a climate model
Stacy Porter
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2009
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Thesis/Dissertation:
Investigation of the impact of ship emissions on atmospheric composition and deposition in remote, coastal landscapes of southwest Alaska
Brentha Thurairajah
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2009
Advisor: Richard Collins
Thesis/Dissertation:
Role of waves on the circulation of the arctic middle atmosphere: Rayleigh LIDAR measurements and analysis
Stefanie Bourne
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2008
Advisor: Uma Bhatt
Thesis/Dissertation:
A Climate Perspective of Observed and Modeled Surface-based Temperature Inversions in Alaska
Morgan Brown
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2008
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Thesis/Dissertation:
Impact of Local External Forcing of the 2006 Augustine Volcano Eruption on Regional Weather Conditions
Patrick Cobb
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2008
Advisor: Kenneth Sassen
Thesis/Dissertation:
Assessing the Performance of Several MODIS Level-2 Cloud and Aerosol Products Against a Surface Based Polarization Cloud LIDAR at Fairbanks, AK
Peter Bieniek
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2007
Advisor: Gerd Wendler
Thesis/Dissertation:
Climate and Predictibility of Alaska Wildfires
Pavan Kanklanala
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2007
Advisor: Kenneth Sassen
Thesis/Dissertation:
Doppler Sodar Observations of the Winds and Structure in the Lower Atmosphere Over Fairbanks, Alaska
Zhao Li
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2007
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Thesis/Dissertation:
Investigations on the Impacts of Land-Cover Changes and/or Increased CO2 Concentrations on Four Regional Water Cycles and Their Interactions with the Global Water Cycle
James Campbell
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2006
Advisor: Kenneth Sassen
Thesis/Dissertation:
Autonomous Full-Time Lidar Observations of Polar Stratospheric Clouds at South Pole
Rawshan Muna
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2006
Advisor: Vladimir Alexeev
Thesis/Dissertation:
On the Origin of Monson: Conventional Theory vs New Findings', Project M.S.
Colin Murray
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2006
Advisor: John Walsh
Thesis/Dissertation:
A Model Composite Assessment of the Enhancement of Arctic Warming by Sea Ice Retreat', Project MS
Kara Sterling
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2006
Advisor: Uma Bhatt
Thesis/Dissertation:
Multi-Decadal Variability of Atlantic Water Heat Transports as Seen in the Community Climate Systems Model Version 3.0
Ramaswamy Tiruchirapalli
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2006
Advisor: Kenneth Sassen
Thesis/Dissertation:
Micropulse Lidar Observations of Free Tropospheric Aerosols over the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement site at Barrow, Alaska
Mihailo Jankov
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2005
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Thesis/Dissertation:
Analysis of Uncertainty in Simulated Exchange of heat and Moisture at the Land-Atmosphere Interface
North Larsen
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2005
Balachandrudu Narapusetty
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2005
Thesis/Dissertation:
Evaluation of a Hydro-thermodynamic Soil Vegetation Scheme on the Basis of
Ipshita Majhi
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2004
Advisor: Nicole Mölders
Thesis/Dissertation:
Evaluation of a Hydro-thermodynamic Soil Vegetation Scheme by Observations in Alaska and the Baltic Region', Project MS
Likun Wang
PhD Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2004
Advisor: Kenneth Sassen
Thesis/Dissertation:
Mid-latitude Cirrus Cloud Structural Properties Analyzed From the Extended Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing
Cecilé Hannay
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2001
Advisor: Uma Bhatt
Thesis/Dissertation:
Single Column Model Simulations of Arctic Cloudiness and Surface Radiative Fluxes during the SHEBA Experiment
Joseph Sheedy
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2001
Advisor: Cathy Cahill
Thesis/Dissertation:
On the Surface: Energy Budget of Antarctic Sea Ice', Project MS
Adrienne Tivy
MS Atmospheric Sciences
Year graduate: 2001
Advisor: Uma Bhatt
Thesis/Dissertation:
Investigation of North Pacific Sea Ice Anomalies in the Context of Atmospheric and Oceanic Variability
