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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

https://globalocean.noaa.gov/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…

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 20 and May 2, Alex was a guest lecturer on the topic, “Large-scale Boundary Layer Processes of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)” as a part of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program course entitled, “12.870 Air-Sea Interaction: Boundary Layers.”

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.