RESEARCH PROJECTS || LAUNCH YEARS 3 - 5

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FRANCESCO IMMORLANO (UC Irvine)

FOUNDATION MODELS FOR GENERATIVE EARTH SYSTEMS FORECASTING AND DOWNSCALING

Stephan Mandt (PI, UC Irvine)
Francesco Immorlano (Postdoc, UC Irvine)

VIVIANA ACQUAVIVA (CUNY / Columbia)

THE METRICS RELOADED: IMPROVED SIMILARITY ASSESSMENT FOR EARTH SYSTEMS MAPS

Viviana Acquaviva (PI, CUNY / Columbia)
Gabriele Accarino (Postdoc, Columbia)

SARA SHAMEKH (NYU)
MATTHIEU BLANKE (NYU)

IMPROVING THE PARAMETERIZATION OF ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER USING PHYSICS-INFORMED MACHINE LEARNING

Sara Shamekh (PI, NYU)
Matthieu Blanke (Postdoc, NYU)

VKumar
ARozanov

TASK AWARE MODELING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS

Vipin Kumar (PI, Univ. of Minnesota)
Aleksei Rozanov (Graduate Research Assistant, Univ. of Minnesota)

BMedeiros

LEAP: PHYSICS-IMPLEMENTATION EXPERIENCE WITH CESM (PIECES) 

Brian Medeiros (PI, NCAR)
Addisu Semie (Associate Research Scientist, NCAR)
Qingyuan Yang (Associate Research Scientist, Columbia)

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ATTRIBUTING EARTH SYSTEM MODEL DIVERGENCE WITH HIERARCHICAL REPRESENTATION TRANSFORMERS

David John Gagne (PI, NCAR)
Da Fan (Postdoc, NCAR)

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

LEVERAGING ML TO ADVANCE LAND MODELING THROUGH PARAMETER ESTIMATION AND ML PARAMETERIZATIONS

Dave Lawrence (PI, NCAR)
Linnia Hawkins (Associate Research Scientist, Columbia)

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JOSEPH KO (Columbia University)

ML-ENHANCED UNIFIED ICE MICROPHYSICS SCHEME (ML-ICE) DEVELOPMENT

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

Vanessa Burbano
MAX KAGAN (Columbia Business School)

BEYOND LEFT AND RIGHT: NEW EVIDENCE ON CONSUMER REACTIONS TO CORPORATE SOCIOPOLITICAL STANCE-TAKING

Vanessa Burbano (PI, Columbia Business School)
Max Kagan (Postdoc, Columbia Business School)

Vanessa Burbano
MAX KAGAN (Columbia Business School)

POLICY-MAKER RESPONSES TO SUSTAINABILITY CLAIMS

Vanessa Burbano (PI, Columbia Business School)
Max Kagan (Postdoc, Columbia Business School)

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KAITLYN LOFTUS (Columbia University)
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WARM RAIN MICROPHYSICS

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

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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)

Elsaesser

IMPLEMENTATION OF AUTOMATED CALIBRATION FRAMEWORK INTO CAM AND ANALYSIS OF CALIBRATED ENSEMBLES

Greg Elsaesser (PI, Columbia)

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MANUEL OTHON GUTIERREZ-VILLANUEVA (Columbia University)
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PARAMETERIZING IMPACTS OF HETEROGENEITY AT THE AIR-SEA INTERFACE

Dhruv Balwada (PI, Columbia)
Manuel Othon Gutierrez-Villanueva (Postdoc, Columbia)
Prani Nalluri (Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia)

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TRANSFER LEARNING FOR EARTH SYSTEMS SCIENCE

Samory Kpotufe (PI, Columbia)
Yuyang Deng (Postdoc, Columbia)

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Tian Zheng
SHUOLIN "SHAWN" LI (Columbia University)

NEW DATA ASSIMILATION

Pierre Gentine (Co-PI, Columbia)
Tian Zheng (Co-PI, Columbia)
Shuolin “Shawn” Li (Postdoc, Columbia)

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Robert Pincus
GUILLAUME BERTOLI (Columbia University)

IDEALIZED MODELS OF SPECTROSCOPY FOR ATMOSPHERIC MODELING

Pierre Gentine (Co-PI, Columbia)
Robert Pincus (Co-PI, Columbia)
Guillaume Bertoli (Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia)