People

Prof. Tina Katopodes Chow

Graduate student researchers

Mohit Dubey (co-advised by Sebastien Biraud, LBNL) – fugitive methane emissions

Md Elius – atmospheric modeling for landfill methane emissions

Mengjuan Liu (main advisor: Bowen Zhou, Nanjing University) – gray zone simulations

Courtney Turkatte – community air monitoring

Sienna White (main advisor: Mark Stacey) – wildfire smoke data assimilation

Parker Yang – atmospheric dispersion modeling

Postdoctoral researchers

Harold Gamarro – gray zone simulations

Rebecca Sugrue (co-advised with Neeta Thakur, UCSF) – wildfire smoke data assimilation and health impacts

Former PhD students

Jingyi Bao (PhD 2018) – immersed boundary method

Alex Connolly (PhD 2020) – simulations over mountainous terrain, now at Columbia University

Megan Daniels (PhD 2010) – simulations of flow over mountainous terrain

Eli Goodfriend (PhD 2014) – adaptive mesh refinement for large-eddy simulation

Katie Lundquist (PhD 2010) – immersed boundary methods for urban atmospheric flow applications, now at LLNL

Nikola Marjanovic (PhD 2015) – atmospheric boundary layer simulations for wind energy

Jehan Rihani (PhD 2010) – land-atmosphere interactions

Jason Simon (PhD 2019) – atmospheric simulations in the gray zone, now at Duke University

Diane Taylor (PhD 2017) – atmospheric dispersion of methane

Dave Wiersema (PhD 2019) – urban dispersion simulations, now at LLNL

Adam Wise (PhD 2024) – wind energy simulations

Bowen Zhou (PhD 2012) – stable-boundary layer simulations, now at Nanjing University

Former postdoctoral researchers

Bobby Arthur – stably-stratified flows, now at LLNL

Bicheng Chen – urban dispersion simulations, now at Xiamen University

Mike Dvorak – turbulence and wind energy, now at Sailor’s Energy

Xiaoming Shi – LES and clouds, now at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Former MS researchers – partial list

Macy Frost Chang – machine learning for offshore wind energy (MS thesis)

Léo Guillotte – wildfire smoke data assimilation

James Neher – simulations over complex terrain