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On 6 August, Zenon Davidson presented his Summer Student Fellowship research on clouds and air-sea interaction at the WHOI visiting student poster session, entitled, “Autonomous Characterization of Marine Clouds from Ship-Based All-Sky Imagery: Cloud Radiative Effects during the South Asian Summer Monsoon.” Congrats, Zenon!

On 8 August, a proposal submitted by Alex G., Alex K., and James Edson (WHOI, Applied Ocean Engineering and Physics) was funded by WHOI’s Access to the Sea Program, from September 2026–August 2028. The project will focus on observing marine fog in coastal Martha’s Vineyard via existing air-sea instrumentation, new cloud instrumentation, and weather balloons…

On 2 July, Fouzia successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation at Iowa State University entitled, “What Shapes Tropical Rainfall over the East Pacific? Insights from Low Clouds and Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves.” A big congrats to Fouzia!  

On 24 June, Fouzia orally presented her research at the Joint MPAS/WRF Users Workshop 2026 entitled, “Assessing kilometer‐scale MPAS‐A performance in representing the East Pacific ITCZ and convectively coupled equatorial waves.” More information: https://www.mmm.ucar.edu/events/133496/agenda. Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC2L5mi7r7A.

On 2 June, Alex G hosted the WHOI’s Department of Physical Oceanography weekly seminar entitled, “Vertical momentum mixing in the atmospheric boundary layer and its role in tropical Pacific Ocean winds and rainfall.” Abstract: Earth system models have severe rainfall biases over the tropical Pacific Ocean, with a zonal rainfall band in the Southern Hemisphere…

On 26 May, Zenon Davidson arrived at WHOI, as a part of the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship, where he will research the relationship between clouds and surface radiative fluxes during the South Asian Monsoon using field campaign data  (description below). Zenon is a rising senior undergraduate student majoring in Geophysics at the University of British…

On 20 May, a proposal submitted by Alex G., Alex K., and colleague Kuniaki Inoue (Columbia University) on high-resolution interactions between tropical rainfall and low cloud decks using NASA TROPICS mission data was funded. The grant begins in July and goes through June 2029. Congrats to everyone!

On 14 April, Fouzia’s paper on the fidelity of tropical low clouds in atmospheric reanalyses was published in JGR-Atmospheres: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025JD044949. Congrats, Fouzia!

From 30 March through 2 April, Fouzia and Alex G attended American Meteorological Society’s 37th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology in La Jolla, CA. Fouzia presented her Ph.D. modeling research on the ITCZ and tropical waves entitled, “Improving the Representation of the East Pacific ITCZ and Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves In Km-Scale Simulations Using…

On 1 April, ULCA colleague and fellow Do-It-Yourself Dynamics (DIYnamics) team member, Jonathan Aurnou, published an article with Alex G. and other the DIYnamics team members on simulating atmospheric rivers with affordable rotating tank systems in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/107/4/BAMS-D-24-0011.1.xml. Congrats to Jon, Alex, and the rest of the DIYnamics team!