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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…

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, July 12th, Alex and 20 other coauthors published the Tropical Pacific Observing System (TPOS) Equatorial Pacific Experiment (TEPEX) Science Plan: https://cpo.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/TEPEX_SciencePlan_W4.pdf. For more information about TEPEX see: https://cpo.noaa.gov/scientists-released-plan-for-upcoming-tropical-pacific-modeling-and-field-studies/.

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…