Posts by Alex Gonzalez

We have a Graduate Student Research Assistantship opening in our Tropical Climate Dynamics group at MIT-WHOI for Fall 2025. We are seeking a bright and enthusiastic student who has strong skills in applied mathematics and computer programming with interests in improving climate modeling of clouds and the interactions between the upper ocean and lower atmosphere.…

Alex and a team of various scientists at WHOI collected atmospheric soundings at Woods Hole weather station (on WHOI’s Village Campus) from 15 July through 28 July and 21 September through 4 October via weather balloon launches as a part of the Wind Forecast Improvement Project 3 (WFIP3, https://www2.whoi.edu/site/wfip3/) field campaign. The data is being…

Alex spent a week at NCAR’s Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory (MMM) attending the NSF SOARS summer colloquium and poster session as well as collaborating with Fouzia Fahrin and Fouzia’s ASP’s Graduate Visitor Program mentor, Falko Judt (MMM). Alex also had the chance to visit Colorado State University to meet with colleagues and friends from…

Chelone Laws, presented her summer research entitled, “Increasing Vertical Resolution in CAM6: Improving Representation of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and Low Clouds” at the NSF SOARS Cohort 2024 – Annual Research Colloquium on Monday, July 29 and at the NSF NCAR|UCAR|UCP Summer Student Research Poster Symposium on Thursday, August 1. Chelone was mentored by…

On May 8, Fouzia started a 3-month visit at the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory (MMM) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Fouzia was awarded a fellowship in January 2024 as a part of NSF NCAR’s Advanced Study Program’s Graduate Visitor Program. Fouzia is working with Dr. Falko Judt on her third project…

On July 1, Chengfei He started his WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar position under the guidance of Dr. Alex Gonzalez and Dr. Young-Oh Kwon. Chengfei will be investigating the relationship between equilibrium climate sensitivity, low clouds, and the ITCZ in climate model biases of global historical warming trends. Welcome, Chengfei! The WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar Program is a…

On June 24–28, Alex attended the American Meteorological Society (AMS) 24th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics in Burlington, VT. He had a poster presentation entitled, “Dynamical Importance of the Trade Wind Inversion in Suppressing the Southeast Pacific ITCZ.”  

On June 3–6, Alex and Fouzia attended the Cloud Feedbacks Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) Meeting at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA. Alex and Fouzia both presented posters. Fouzia’s poster was entitled, “The Seasonal Evolution of Low Clouds and the Southern ITCZ over the East Pacific Ocean.” Alex’s poster was entitled, “Dynamical Importance of the…

On May 20, undergraduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chelone Laws, started her summer research project as a part of the NSF SOARS Program. Her summer project involves the influence of increasing vertical resolution on the representation of the ITCZ and low clouds. Welcome, Chelone!

On May 11, Alex was invited to serve a four-year term (through March 2028) on the U.S. CLIVAR Process Study and Model Improvement (PSMI) Panel: https://usclivar.org/panels/psmi. Congrats, Alex!