Name:  Hanna Chaja

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  hxc907@miami.edu

Advisor:  Brian Mapes

Research Topic: 
.

Research Keywords: 
Gravity Waves, Troposphere, Stratocumulus Clouds, Satellite Imagery

Name:  Shanna Chamhitt test

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  Sxc2720@miami.edu

Advisor:  David Nolan

Research Topic: 
Tropical Cyclone Outflow Layer.

Research Keywords: 
Outflow layer, gravity waves, stratospheric interactions

Name:  James Christie

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  jac89554@miami.edu

Advisor:  Cassandra Gaston

Research Topic: 
Oxidant production from nighttime interactions of dinitrogen
pentoxide and chlorinated aerosols.

Research Keywords: 
Air Quality, Aerosol, Halogens, NOx, Chlorine

Name: Will Downs

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  will.downs@earth.miami.edu

Advisor:  Sharan Majumdar

Research Topic: 
Formation and Early Organization of Tropical Cyclones

Research Keywords: 
Tropical Cyclones, Tropical Cyclogenesis, Hurricanes, Machine Learning, Modeling

Name: Sophia DiPietro

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  sophia.dipietro@earth.miami.edu

Advisor:  Amy Clement

Research Topic: 
Climate Change

Research Keywords: 
Climate, extreme events, extreme heat, climate impacts

Name: Matthew Donahue

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  mxd45136@miami.edu

Advisor:  Sharan Majumdar

Research Topic: 
Weather Forecasting

Name:  Kerri Englert

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  Kxe210@miami.edu

Advisor:  Sharan Majumdar

Research Topic: 
Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification

Research Keywords: 
Cyclone, storm, hurricane, rapid, intensification, cloud

Name: Lily Johnston

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  lilyjohnston@miami.edu

Advisor:  Ben Kirtman

Research Topic:
Subseasonal-Interannual Prediction

Research Keywords:
ENSO, NMME, Climate Variability, High Resolution Modeling, Intraseasonal-to-Interannual prediction

Name: Josiah Kaiser

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  jmk433@miami.edu

Advisor:  Ben Kirtman

Research Topic:
Regional Climate Change

Research Keywords:
Climate, Environment, Atmosphere, Pollution, Models, Dynamics

Name: Aidan Mahoney

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  aidan.mahoney@miami.edu

Advisor:  Brian Soden

Research Topic:
Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change

Research Keywords:
tropical cyclones, climate change, hurricanes, thermodynamics

Name:  Cait Martinez

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  caitmartinez@miami.edu

Advisor:  Ben Kirtman

Research Topic: The role of atmospheric noise on ENSO predictability

Research Keywords: 
climate variability and predictability, ENSO, ML

Name:  Eric Mischell

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:   eric.mischell@earth.miami.edu

Advisor:   Brian Soden

Research Topic: The response of the hydrological cycle to global warming

Research Keywords: 
Extreme rainfall, convection, satellite observations

Name: Chanyoung Park

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  chanyoung.park@miami.edu

Website:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1bK9Q1MAAAAJ&hl=ko

Advisor:  Dr. Brian Soden

Research Topic:
Constraining model simulations of aerosol-cloud interactions using
satellite observations

Research Keywords:
Aerosol-cloud interaction, Climate sensitivity

Name: Michael Perez

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  michaelperez@miami.edu

Advisor:  Dr. Paquita Zuidema

Research Topic:
Arctic Cloud Radiative Properties

Research Keywords:
Arctic clouds, ARCSIX, Radiative Equilibrium, Climate Change, the New Arctic

Name:  Cameron Pine

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  cmp284@earth.miami.edu

Advisor:  David Nolan

Research Topic:
An observational study of the processes that link TC vortex
alignment to future intensity change

Research Keywords:
Tropical Cyclones, Vortex, Wind Shear, Precession, Tilt,
Ground Radar, Tail-Doppler Radar, Dealiasing

Name: Theresia Phoa

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  tbp32@miami.edu

Advisor:  Ben Kirtman

Research Topic:
Climate Extremes

Research Keywords:
climate change, climate extremes, applied meteorology

Name: Juliette Rocha

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  jcr2311@miami.edu

Advisor:  Marybeth Arcodia

Research Topic:
Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction

Research Keywords:
Air-Sea Interactions, Tropical Meteorology and Dynamics, Subseaonal to Seasonal
Prediction, Machine Learning

Name: Tori Sargent

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  t.sargent@miami.edu

Advisor:   Ben Kirtman/ Emily Becker

Research Topic:
Climate dynamics, Climate modeling, and predictability, Climate change attribution and detection.

Research Keywords:
ENSO, Anthropogenic forcing, Ensemble forecasting, Extreme weather events,
High-resolution climate modeling, Ocean-atmosphere interactions

Name: Christina Schuler

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  ct123@miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Ben Kirtman

Research Topic:
How ENSO and NASH impact North Atlantic tropical cyclone genesis and tracks.

Research Keywords:
ENSO, NASH, Gulf Stream, hurricanes, storms, cyclones, storm tracks, North Atlantic.

Name: Tyler Tatro

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  tyler.tatro@miami.edu

Advisor:   Paquita Zuidema

Research Topic:
Biomass burning and aerosol-cloud interactions in the southeast Atlantic.

Research Keywords:
Aerosol-cloud interactions, low clouds, climate change, biomass burning

Name: Evan Wellmeyer

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  ewellmeyer@miami.edu

Advisor:   Brian Soden

Research Topic:
Machine Learning in Atmospheric Sciences.

Research Keywords:
Machine Learning, Climate, Atmospheric Science, Prediction, Climate Change, Tropical Cyclones

Name: Alexis Wilson

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  avw30@miami.edu

Advisor:  Sharan Majumdar

Research Topic:
Tropical Cyclogenesis and African Easterly Waves

Research Keywords:
Tropical Cyclones, Hurricanes, Cyclogenesis, Atlantic, African Easterly Waves, AEWs

Name:  Chelsea Black

Program / Degree:  Marine Ecosystems and Society / Ph.D.

Website:  chelsealeighblack.com

Email:  chelsea.black@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:  Dr. David Die

Research Topic:
Tracking Marine Megafauna as Ecosystem Sentinels

Research Keywords:
sharks, biodiversity, megafauna, marine, biodiversity, multispecies

Name:  Cristin Mayes

Program / Degree:  Marine Ecosystems and Society / Ph.D.

Email:  cristin.mayes@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. David Die

Research Topic:
Fishery Modeling

Research Keywords:
biology, ecology, mathematics, dynamics, fisheries, modeling

Name:  Nkosi Muse

Program / Degree:  Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D.

Email:  nkosi.muse@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Katharine Mach

Research Topic:
Equitably improving the preparedness and resilience of cities in the face of climate change.

Research Keywords:
Climate, resilience, adaptation, equity

Name: Mitchell Rider

Program / Degree:  Environmental Science and Policy / PhD

Email:  mitchell.rider@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Neil Hammerschlag

Research Topic:
Understanding movement dynamics of leatherback seaturtles in NW
Atlantic using Satellite Telemetry

Research Keywords:
Satellite Telemetry, Leatherback Turtles, Movement Ecology

Name:  Matthew Varkony

Program / Degree:  Environmental Science and Policy / PhD

Email:  mvarkony@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Renato Molina

Research Topic:
Intersection between society and climate change. Specifically distributional impacts of disasters

Research Keywords:
Income Inequality, Extreme Events, Disasters, Economics, Poverty, Development

Name:   Jeneva Wright

Program / Degree:  Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D.

Email:  jeneva.wright@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:  Dr. Fritz Hanselmann

Research Topic:
climate change impacts to shipwrecks

Research Keywords:
underwater archaeology, climate change, potentially polluting shipwrecks, corrosion

Name:   Emily Yeager

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Email:  emily.yeager@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Andrew Baker

Research Topic:
Coral-algal symbiosis and dysbiosis

Research Keywords:
Coral, algae, symbiosis, bleaching, marine environment, symbiont availability

Name: Anthony Bonacolta

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Website:  https://twitter.com/AMBonacolta

Email:  anthony.bonacolta@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor: Dr. Javier del Campo

Research Topic:
Microbial Ecology

Research Keywords:
Marine Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Metagenomics

Name: Allyson DeMerlis

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Website:  https://allysondemerlis.weebly.com,  https://twitter.com/allydemerlis

Email:  allyson.demerlis@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Nikki Traylor-Knowles

Research Topic:
Molecular mechanisms of coral resilience to environmental stress
and resistance to disease

Research Keywords:
Molecular biology, reef restoration, genomics, coral disease

Name:  Caroline Dennison

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Email:  caroline.dennison@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:  Dr. Andrew Baker

Research Topic: Coral-algal symbiosis and disease implications

Research Keywords: coral reef ecology, coral, symbionts, Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease

Name:  Moritz Ehrlich

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Website:  @EhrlichMo (Twitter)

Email:  moritz.ehrlich@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Marjorie Oleksiak

Research Topic:
Within-generation adaptation to ecological niches in Atlantic killifish

Research Keywords:
Genomics, Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Ecology, Population Genetics,
Natural Selection, Physiology, Fundulus heteroclitus

Name:  LeeAnn Frank

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Email:  leeann.frank@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Martin Grosell

Research Topic:
Metabolic cost of osmoregulation in teleost fish<

Research Keywords:
Osmoregulation, metabolism, teleost, fish physiology, toadfish, environmental physiology

Name:  Katherine Hardy

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Website:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-hardy-656520210

Email:  katherine.hardy@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Andrew Baker

Research Topic:
Coral reproduction and juvenile resilience

Research Keywords:
Climate change, coral reproduction, resilience, cryopreservation, assisted evolution, symbiosis

Name:  Kelsey Johnson-Sapp

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Website:  linkedin.com/in/kelsey-johnson-sapp-960b5a75/

Email:  kej31@miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Andrew Baker

Research Topic:
Leveraging natural genetic dynamics to enhance coral restoration strategies

Research Keywords:
Coral, Coral Reef, Coral Restoration, Coral Ecology, Coral Genetics

Name:  Richard Karp

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Email:  rkarp@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Andrew Baker

Research Topic: Coral resilience and adaptation

Research Keywords:
Coral, genetics, transcriptomics, stress hardening, stress tolerance,
symbiont communities

Name:  Patrick Kiel

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Email:  pkiel@rsmas.miami.edu

Website:  https://patrickkiel.com

Advisor:   Dr. Vivek Prakash

Research Topic: Investigating how biophysical and engineering properties modulate coral physiology and
ecology

Research Keywords:
coral reefs, ecology, biophysics, engineering, restoration, ocean acidification, translational ecology

Name:  Emma Pontes

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Website:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-pontes-97b492141/

Email:  e.pontes1@umiami.edu

Advisor:  Dr. Chris Langdon

Research Topic:
Examining how low oxygen conditions affect coral physiology, especially in
combination with other stressors like increased temperature and reduced pH.

Research Keywords:
coral, ecology, ocean acidification, hypoxia, climate change, Acropora cervicornis

Name:   Marissa Rykowski

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Email:  m.rykowski@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Beth Babcock

Research Topic: My dissertation focuses on anthropogenic effects, mainly bycatch, on the
loggerhead sea turtle.

Research Keywords:  oggerhead sea turtle, population dynamics, bycatch, Gulf of Mexico

Name: Bradley Weiler

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Email:  bweiler@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor: Dr. Javier del Campo

Research Topic:
Marine microbiomes and coral disease

Research Keywords:
microbiome, pathobiome, coral, next-generation sequencing,
culturing, SSU rRNA

Name:   Adrianne Wilson

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Email:  adrianne.wilson@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Elizabeth Babcock

Research Topic:
Age and Growth of Lane Snapper

Research Keywords:
Fish Population Structure, Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, Age and Growth, Stock Assessment,
Ecosystem Based Management

Name: Wenlong Zhang

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Email:  wxz296@miami.edu

Advisor: Dr. Martin Grosell

Research Topic:
Environmental effects on invertebrate calcification

Research Keywords:
Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Physiology, Proteomic analysis

Name:  Jorge Agobian

Program / Degree:   Marine Geosciences / PhD

Website:  https://jnagobian.wixsite.com/rsmas

Email:  jagobian@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Keir Becker

Research Topic:
Hydrothermal circulation in spreading centers: fluid recharge vs. discharge
@ edges of abyssal hills

Research Keywords:
hydrothermal circulation, fluid discharge, fluid recharge, abyssal hills, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, North Pond

Name: Anna Ling

Program / Degree:  Marine Geology and Geophysics / PhD

Website:  alingrsmas.wordpress.com

Email:  a.ling@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Gregor Eberli

Research Topic:
Influence of Ocean Currents on Carbonate Platform Drowning

Research Keywords:
Ocean Currents, Nutrients, Carbonate, Platform Drowning, Phosphorus,
Nitrogen, Microfacies

Name:  Valeria Turino

Program / Degree:   Marine Geosciences / PhD

Email:  valeria.turino@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Adam Holt

Research Topic:
Numerical modeling of subduction zones

Research Keywords:
subduction zones, subduction dynamics, geodynamics, numerical modeling

Name: Elizabeth Vinarski

Program / Degree:  Marine Geology and Geophysics / PhD

Email:  ekv5@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Guoqing Lin

Research Topic:
Seismicity of Kilauea 2020 Eruption

Research Keywords:
seismicity, hawaiian vulcanism, earthquake relocation, forecasting

Name: Samuel Ephraim

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  soe10@miami.edu

Advisor:  Paquita Zuidema

Research Topic:
Cold air outbreaks

Research Keywords:
Meteorology, clouds, arctic, dynamics, microphysics, boundary layer, ice, snow

Name:  Ivenis Pita

Program / Degree:   Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD

Website:   https://ivenispita.github.io/science_mode/

Email:  ivenis.pita@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Gustavo Goni (NOAA AOML), and Dr. Benjamin Kirtman (UM)

Research Topic:
Influence of Western Boundary Currents on Coastal Sea Level

Research Keywords:
Sea Level, Coastal Variability, Brazil Current, Hydrography, Physical Oceanography

Name:  Snigdha Samantaray

Program / Degree:   Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD

Website:   https://snigsam.github.io/

Email:  sxs3853@miami.edu

Advisor:   Brian Mapes

Research Topic:
Water Vapor Lakes in Western Equatorial Indian Ocean

Research Keywords:
Tropical Meteorology, Cloud and Convection Processes

Name:  Junfei Xia

Program / Degree:  Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD

Website:  http://junfeixia.com

Email:  junfei.xia@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:  Dr. Tamay M Ozgokmen

Research Topic:
ML and DL applications in physical oceanography: interpolation and classification

Research Keywords:
Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Drifter data; SAR image classification; Dynamic Systems; Submesoscale ocean motion

Name:  Paloma Cartwright

Program / Degree:  Applied Marine Physics / PhD

Website:  https://palomacartwright.github.io/

Email:  palomacartwright@earth.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Lisa Beal

Research Topic: Florida Current and Sea Level

Research Keywords: Sea Level Rise, Physical Oceanography, Ocean Heat, Florida Current

Name:  Madeleine Dawson

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / PhD

Email:  madeleine.dawson@rsmas.miami.edu

Website:  https://www.madeleinedawsonphd.com/

Advisor:   Dr. Hans Graber

Research Topic: Machine Learning Sea Ice Feature Extraction and Characterization from Synthetic
Aperture Radar Image

Research Keywords: Remote Sensing, SAR, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Machine Learning

Name: Katelyn DeWater

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / PhD

Email:  kdewater@miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Hans Graber

Research Topic: Quantification and analysis of sea ice using stereo and SAR imagery

Research Keywords: Remote sensing, SAR, stereoscopic, sea ice

Name:  Gabrielle Ricche

Program / Degree:  Applied Marine Physics / PhD

Email:  gxr544@miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Hans Graber

Research Topic: Detection and quantification of icebergs and their response to wind and currents using SAR imagery

Research Keywords: remote sensing, icebergs, physical oceanography, climate, machine learning

Name:  Peisen Tan

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / PhD

Email:  peisen.tan@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Brian Haus

Research Topic: Air-sea interaction and momentum transfer

Research Keywords: Air-Sea Interaction, Waves, Coastal Resilience, Physical Oceanography,
Experimental Physics