Posts by Alex Gonzalez

On June 18, Alex’s grant entitled, “Collaborative Research: The Relationship between the Trade Wind Inversion Layer and the Seasonal Development of the Southeast Pacific Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)” was awarded by the National Science Foundation’s Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics Program. Funding for this project will be for three years beginning in July 2023. See more…

In early June, Indrani Ganguly and Alex Gonzalez traveled to the State University of New York, University at Albany to present research at the 10th Northeast Tropical Workshop (https://www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/tang/NETropical/index.html). Indrani presented a poster entitled, “Investigating double-ITCZ biases in climate models: Role of daily-resolved air-sea interactions.” Alex presented a poster entitled, “Dynamical importance of the trade…

On April 10, Alex Gonzalez traveled to Albany, NY to present a talk entitled, “Dynamical importance of the trade wind inversion in suppressing the southeast Pacific ITCZ” at the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences/Atmospheric Sciences Research Center Joint Colloquium.

On March 29, Fouzia Fahrin successfully passed her Ph.D. preliminary examination as a part of Iowa State University’s requirements to become a Ph.D. candidate. Congrats, Fouzia!

From December 12–16, Alex Gonzalez, Indrani Ganguly, and Fouzia Fahrin traveled to the 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting in Chicago, IL to present about their research and teaching/outreach activities. Alex had a poster presentation entitled, “Case studies of double and northern hemisphere east Pacific ITCZs: Impacts of boundary layer depth and free troposphere momentum…

On October 17, Alex Gonzalez gave an invited talk at a symposium at UCLA in honor of the late Professor Akio Arakawa: Modeling Convection, Clouds and Climate Systems. Alex’s talk was entitled, “Wind-Evaporation-SST feedbacks and the southeast Pacific Ocean ITCZ.” The recorded presentation can be seen below.  

During July 2022, Alex Gonzalez and Indrani Ganguly (and the DIYnamics team) co-convened a session at the eighth annual Earth Educators’ Rendezvous in Minneapolis, MN this July entitled, “Teaching atmosphere, ocean, and planetary fluid dynamic fundamentals vividly with rotating tanks.” (https://serc.carleton.edu/earth_rendezvous/2022/program/morning_workshops/w9/index.html). There were approximately 25 participants in their session, with 5–10 from underrepresented groups/minority serving…

Alex started a new position as an Assistant Scientist in the Department of Physical Oceanography at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in June 2022. Alex remains Affiliate Faculty at Iowa State University. With this transition, the Tropical Atmospheric Dynamics Group at ISU becomes the Tropical Climate Dynamics Group at WHOI.

Indrani presented her research entitled “Role of near-surface dynamics and air-sea interactions in subseasonal ITCZ variability over the East Pacific” at the 23rd AOFD conference held in Colorado.

On May 20, 2022, Alex Gonzalez, Indrani Ganguly, Fouzia Fahrin, and undergraduate ISU meteorology student, Jesse Castillo, visited Urbandale High School to discuss weather and climate with approximately 150 students across four different chemistry, environmental science, and physical science classes. The group led a series of short presentations on recent impactful weather and climate events…