Posts by Alex Gonzalez

On December 6, Alex and co-authors (Lisan Yu, Yanxu Chen, Chidong Zhang, and Gregory R. Foltz) published a paper entitled, “Dry Air Outbreak and Significant Surface Turbulent Heat Loss During Hurricane Ian: Satellite and Saildrone Observations” in Geophysical Research Letters: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023GL105583. Congrats, Alex! The three key points of the paper are: Hurricane Ian triggered a…

On November 9, Alex was a guest lecturer discussing the topic: “Large-scale atmospheric dynamics and relation to extreme storms” as a part of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program course entitled, “12.757 Climate Change Science: Extreme Events in a Warming World.”

On November 8, Alex traveled to the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to host a talk entitled, “Dynamical Importance of the Trade Wind Inversion in Suppressing the Southeast Pacific ITCZ,” as a part of the weekly Sack Lunch Seminar Series.

Indrani and Alex published their research titled “On the Role of Wind-Evaporation-SST Feedbacks in the Sub-seasonal Variability of the East Pacific ITCZ” in the Journal of Climate: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/37/1/JCLI-D-22-0849.1.xml. This is Indrani’s first ever 1st-author publication. Congrats, Indrani!

On October 25, Alex traveled to the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University to host a talk entitled, “Dynamical Importance of the Trade Wind Inversion in Suppressing the Southeast Pacific ITCZ,” as a part of the Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences weekly seminar series. See the recording of Alex’s presentation…

Alex’s work on deploying WHOI Argo floats and using the data to understand hurricane physics was recognized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). See more here: Meet the Early Career Ocean Scientists Working to Improve Hurricane Forecasts

In late July, Alex Gonzalez, along with WHOI scientists Magdalena Andres and Heather Furey, presented about the importance of atmosphere and ocean science on weather and climate to approximately 20 middle school and high school female divers from the Black Girls Dive Foundation (https://blackgirlsdivefoundation.org/). He also conducted a series of hands-on experiments demonstrating extratropical storms…

In July, Alex hosted the NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory Atmosphere–Ocean Processes and Predictability Division weekly seminar virtually. His talk was entitled, “Dynamical importance of the trade wind inversion in suppressing the southeast Pacific ITCZ.”

Indrani was selected to attend the 2023 CESM tutorial held over the course of a week at NCAR in Boulder, Colorado. Participants were taught the basics of running the state-of-the-art climate model CESM2.

During July 2023, Alex Gonzalez and the DIYnamics team co-convened a session at the ninth annual Earth Educators’ Rendezvous (EER) in Pasadena, CA entitled, “Teaching Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics with Interactive Demonstrations.” (https://serc.carleton.edu/earth_rendezvous/2023/program/morning_workshops/w4/index.html). The theme of this year’s workshop was on the atmospheric rivers that slammed California during the winter of 2022–2023.   There…