Posts by Alex Gonzalez

On May 20th, 2025, Chelone Laws arrived at WHOI to start her summer research project in Woods Hole as part of WHOI’s Summer Student Fellowship and the NSF Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) programs. Chelone’s project is focused on using satellite-based and Argo float data to understand how upper ocean fresh layers…

On May 15th, 2025, Alex presented his research at the WHOI Board of Trustees and Members of the Corporation Joint Meeting. His presentation was entitled, “The Interconnections between Clouds, Storms, and Rainfall over the Ocean.” Alex discussed his group’s work on low clouds, the ITCZ, and education using rotating tanks efforts (in collaboration with the…

On March 26th, Alex traveled to New York City to host seminars at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the City College of New York. Both talks were entitled, “We need to simulate more double ITCZs and less southern ITCZs in reanalyses and coupled climate models.”

From March 10–25, Alex wrapped up the last intensive observing period of weather balloon launches for the 3rd Wind Forecast Improvement Project (https://www2.whoi.edu/site/wfip3/). We would like to thank the approximately 60 local volunteers who helped with the field operations, both in Woods Hole and on ships transecting the offshore area south of Cape Cod.

In February 2025,  Alex received the James E. and Barbara V. Moltz Early Career Science Fellowship. Alex is planning to use this funding to support preliminary work for an several upcoming proposals. Congrats, Alex!

On 3–7, December, Alex G., Fouzia, and Alex K. presented their research at the 2024 AGU Fall Meeting in Washington, DC. Alex G. had two presentations, one entitled, “We have a single, not a double, ITCZ bias is coupled climate models” and the other entitled, “Wind-evaporation-SST feedbacks in the east Pacific ITCZ: Analyzing the impact…

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…

On September 3rd, the Fall 2024 semester began at MIT. Alex is co-teaching 12.800 – Fluid Dynamics of Atmosphere and Ocean along with Dr. Amala Mahadevan. Alex is also co-teaching 12.860 – Climate Variability and Diagnostics along with Dr. Caroline Ummenhofer. Looking forward to a wonderful semester!

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…