Steven G. Decker, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison): Dr. Decker's research focuses on issues facing weather forecasters and the weather forecasting enterprise. This includes improving the incorporation of satellite data into numerical weather prediction models, building connections between atmospheric dynamics and synoptic meteorological practice, and tackling current forecasting challenges, especially those relevant to the East Coast of the United States.

Jennifer Francis, Research Professor (Ph.D., Univ. of Washington): Dr. Francis's research involves satellite remote sensing of the polar regions, Arctic climate change, and energy transfer among the atmosphere, sea ice and ocean.

Dale Haidvogel, Professor II (Ph.D., MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution): Dr. Haidvogel's research focuses on the development and application of multi-scale ocean circulation models used to simulate ocean currents and regional climate impacts. These models are employed world-wide for the study of fundamental oceanographic processes and as the building blocks of data-assimilative regional forecasting systems. Dr. Haidvogel is currently Chair of the U.S. GLOBEC program, a NOAA- and NSF-funded multidisciplinary research program designed to determine the potential impact of global climate change on ocean ecosystems.

Monica A. Mazurek, Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles): Dr. Mazurek's interests include air quality engineering; chemical compositions, sources, distributions; and fates of carbonaceous aerosol particles; analytical methods for organic compounds in environmental and chemical engineering processes; and organic geochemistry of Earth materials. Her research on molecular composition, modeling, and source attribution of atmospheric fine particles is applied to air quality studies in collaboration with state monitoring programs to aid with the development of State Implementation Plans (SIPs) for controlling sources of fine particles to urban airsheds.

James R. Miller, Professor (Ph.D., Univ. of Maryland): Dr. Miller's research uses global climate models to obtain a better understanding of the climate system and how it might change in the future as atmospheric greenhouse gases increase. A particular focus is on the hydrologic cycle and feedbacks between water and other components of the climate system with a regional emphasis on the Arctic Ocean and surrounding land mass. Another emphasis is on river flow and water resources and how they might be affected by climate change.

Mark A Miller, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State Univ.): Dr. Miller's expertise is in cloud physics, atmospheric radiation, and remote sensing. His research involves the use of specialized observational systems to measure the properties of clouds. The resulting measurements provide new insights into the interactions between cloud systems and Earth's climate. Dr. Miller is a key participant in the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program.

David A. Robinson, Professor (Ph.D., Columbia Univ.): Dr. Robinson's research involves climate and climate change; in particular, state and regional climate and climate change issues, hemispheric snow cover kinematics and dynamics, and the collection and archiving of accurate climatic data.

Alan Robock, Professor II (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Dr. Robock's research involves many aspects of climate change: the greenhouse effect, impacts of climate change, and satellite observations. He conducts both observational analyses and climate model simulations. His current research focuses on soil moisture variations, the effects of volcanic eruptions on climate, and detection of human effects on the climate system.

Georgiy L. Stenchikov, Research Professor (Ph.D., Moscow Physical Technical Institute): Dr. Stenchikov's research is in the area of mathematical modeling of multi-scale dynamic and physical processes in the climate system. It is aimed at better understanding nonlinear mechanisms that govern climate variability and climate change. The research topics include studies on distribution and optical properties of volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere after major volcanic eruptions, their radiative effect on climate, and forcing of stratosphere-troposphere dynamic interaction. Dr. Stenchikov is also interested in chemistry-climate interaction, transport of pollutants on different spatial scales, from convective mixing of the boundary layer pollution in the troposphere to continental and global-scale transport of aerosols and chemical tracers, as well as effect of aerosol and ozone on regional and global-scale climate processes.

Barbara Turpin, Professor (Ph.D., Oregon Graduate Institute of Oregon Health Sciences Univ.): Dr. Turpin's research focuses on understanding the atmospheric transformations of aerosols, which are important in urban and regional air quality, visibility and climate, and studying the effects of human exposure to these airborne particles. Her research works toward the development of effective pollution control strategies

Dana E. Veron, Visiting Professor (Ph.D., Univ. of California-San Diego): Dr. Veron's research focuses on the cloud-aerosol radiation processes, their impact on climate and their sensitivity to climate change.  Currently, Dr. Veron has several projects that investigate improving the representation of cloud field inhomogeneity in atmospheric general circulation models. This includes several projects involving a stochastic cloud-radiation model, observational climatologies of cloud properties, and improved representation of cloud microphysical properties.

Christopher Weaver, Visiting Professor (Ph.D., Univ. of California-San Diego): Dr. Weaver's main scientific interests fall currently within two broad themes: Improving our understanding of the interactions between land and atmospheric processes over a range of spatial scales, but especially those of watersheds, ecosystems, and human communities; Improving our understanding of clouds - their radiative effects, their role in the global climate system, and their control by atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics.