RESEARCH PROJECTS || LAUNCH YEARS 1 -2

David Lawrence
Dagon
Postdoc, Earth + Environmental Engineering (Columbia University)

OPEN-SOURCE PROCESS FOR ROUTINE PARAMETER ESTIMATION + UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION FOR THE CLM

Dave Lawrence (Co-PI, NCAR)
Katie Dagon (Co-PI, NCAR)
Linnia Hawkins (Associate Research Scientist, Columbia)

Tian Zheng
Galen McKinley headshot
Agonafir

STATISTICAL METHODS FOR FUNCTIONAL REGRESSION FOR SPATIAL TEMPORAL DYNAMICS

Tian Zheng (Co-PI, Columbia)
Galen McKinley (Co-PI, Columbia)
Candace Agonafir (Associate Research Scientist, Columbia)

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David Lawrence
AYA LAHLOU (Columbia University)

CONSTRAINING PHENOLOGY WITH MACHINE LEARNING

Pierre Gentine (Co-PI, Columbia)
Dave Lawrence (Co-PI, NCAR)
Aya Lahlou (Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia)

Pierre Gentine headshot
Michael Pritchard
YONGQUAN QU (Columbia University)

LOW-CLOUD TURBULENCE USING MACHINE LEARNING

Pierre Gentine (Co-PI, Columbia)
Mike Pritchard (Co-PI, UC Irvine / NVIDIA)
Yongquan Qu (Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia)

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Matthew Long headshot
ABBY SHAUM (Columbia University)

METRICS FOR CESM: MACHINE-LEARNING BASED AIR-SEA CO2 FLUXES

Galen McKinley (Co-PI, Columbia)
Matt Long (Co-PI, NCAR)
Abby Shaum (Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia)

Robert Pincus
Carl Vondrick

LEARNING OPTIMAL RELATIONSHIPS FOR SOLAR RADIATION

Robert Pincus (Co-PI, Columbia)
Carl Vondrick (Co-PI, Columbia)
Dion Ho (Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia)

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KAITLYN LOFTUS (Columbia University)

WARM RAIN MICROPHYSICS EMULATION

Marcus van Lier-Walqui (PI, Columbia)
Kaitlyn Loftus (Postdoc, Columbia)

VKumar
David Lawrence
ARVIND RENGANATHAN (Univ. of Minnesota)

DEEP LEARNING BASED INVERSE MODELING FOR PARAMETER ESTIMATION

Vipin Kumar (Co-PI, Univ. of Minnesota)
Dave Lawrence (Co-PI, NCAR)
Arvind Renganathan (Graduate Research Assistant, Univ. of Minnesota)

KLamb
JOSEPH KO (Columbia University)

UNIFICATION OF LABORATORY + OBSERVATIONAL DATA VIA LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR ROBUST MODELS OF ICE MICROPHYSICS

Kara Lamb (PI, Columbia)
Joseph Ko (Postdoc, Columbia)

Elsaesser
QYang

OPTIMIZED SYSTEMATIC CALIBRATION OF EARTH SYSTEM MODEL PHYSICS

Greg Elsaesser (PI, NASA-GISS)
Qingyuan Yang (Associate Research Scientist, Columbia)

MARCO GIOMETTO (Columbia University)
ENSHENG WENG (Columbia University)
JAEYOUNG JUNG (Columbia University)

PHYSICS DATA DRIVEN SURROGATE MODELS FOR VEGETATION-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION: IMPROVED PARAMETERIZATION OF TURBULENT EXCHANGES BETWEEN PLANT CANOPIES AND THE ATMOSPHERE

Marco Giometto (Co-PI, Columbia)
Ensheng Weng (Co-PI, Columbia)
Jaeyoung Jung (Postdoc, Columbia)

Kingslake
Porter
RACHEET MATAI (Columbia University)

LEAP CRYO: LEARNING NEW ICE SHEET SLIDING LAWS WITH NEURAL NETS + HIGH-RESOLUTION ICE MODELS

Jonathan Kingslake (Co-PI, Columbia)
David Porter (Co-PI, Columbia)
Racheet Matai (Postdoc, Columbia)

Michael Pritchard
JERRY LIN (UC Irvine)
Pierre Gentine headshot
SAVANNAH FERRETTI (UC Irvine)

TOWARDS ROBUST, RELIABLE, AND OPERATIONAL SUPER-PARAMETERIZATION EMULATORS

Mike Pritchard (Co-PI, UC Irvine / NVIDIA)
Pierre Gentine (Co-PI, Columbia)
Savannah Ferretti (Graduate Research Assistant, UC Irvine)
Jerry Lin (Graduate Research Assistant, UC Irvine)

Laure Zanna
Gagne
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RETHINKING AIR-SEA FLUXES PARAMETERIZATION

Laure Zanna (Co-PI, NYU)
David John Gagne II (Co-PI, NCAR)
Jiarong Wu (Postdoc, NYU)

Vanessa Burbano
Postdoc, Management (Columbia Business School)

CORPORATE STAKEHOLDERS’ RESPONSES TO EARTH SYSTEM INITIATIVES AND EARTH SYSTEM-BASED COMMUNICATIONS + INFORMATION

Vanessa Burbano (PI, Columbia)
Florencio Portocarrero (Postdoc, Columbia)

OPizmonyLevy
Lang
CHRISTINA TORRES (Teachers College)

LAB TO SCHOOL: SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR K-12 TEACHERS IN NYC

Oren Pizmony-Levy (Co-PI, Teachers College)
Charles Lang (Co-PI, Teachers College)
Christina Torres (Graduate Research Assistant, Teachers College)

Carl Vondrick

NEURO-SYMBOLIC MACHINE LEARNING FOR EARTH SYSTEMS

Carl Vondrick (PI, Columbia)

Pierre Gentine headshot
Laure Zanna
JULIA SIMPSON (Columbia University)

REVISITING AIR-SEA FLUX INTERACTIONS WITH ML

Pierre Gentine (Co-PI, Columbia)
Laure Zanna (Co-PI, NYU)
Julia Simpson (Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia)