Our lab welcomes M.S. student Tengyu Ding. Tengyu received his B.S. degree in Hydrology and Water Resources from the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University in China. His research focuses on modeling the terrestrial hydrological cycle. Welcome, Tengyu!
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December 2017
Amir successfully defended his PhD dissertation, and is moving to a postdoc position at UCLA. Congratulations, Dr. Erfanian! We will miss you!
October 2017
Congratulations to Amir Erfanian and Lori Fomenko whose ClimaMedia project was featured in UConn Today.
The full story can be found here: Using Social Media to Take On Climate Change
August 2017
The lab welcomes Xiaoming Sun, a postdoctoral associate with keen interest in precipitation extremes and atmospheric convection. Dr. Sun received his PhD degree from Duke University under the supervision of Professor Ana Barros in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and M.S. degree from UConn CEE. Welcome back, Xiaoming!
New Publication
Congratulations to Amir Erfanian! Amir’s paper documenting the unprecedented Amazon drought (2015-16) was published in Scientific Reports!
The full text can be found at http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05373-2
June 2017
The YouTube video for Lori Fomenko’s Tedx talk has been released! Well done, Lori!
April 2017
Congratulations to Amir Erfanian! His new ensemble approach to regional climate modeling (Ensemble-based Reconstructed Forcing, ERF) has been published in GRL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GL073053/epdf
March 2017
Our lab’s paper on extreme precipitation scaling with temperature is online now!
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate3239.html
It was captured by several news outlets: UConn Today, The Guardian, Phys.org, Science Daily, EurekAlert, Environmental News Network
February 2017
Our lab’s 2-paper series on coupled land use-climate projections has been published online now, accessible from the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems website:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016MS000712/full
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016MS000721/full
These formally wrapped up our NSF EaSM project. Congratulations and many thanks to Dr. Kazi Ahmed who played a pivotal role in this project! And thanks to the rest of the team for all their contributions and support! It was a great experience working together on this challenging and productive project.
January 2017
Dr. Ying Shi ended her 10-month appointment as a Visiting Scholar in our lab and returned to her position at the National Climate Center in China Meteorological Administration. We will miss you, Ying!