Current group members


Taka Ito

Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Program faculty in Quantitative BioScience (QBioS) and Ocean Science and Engineering (OSE) Ph.D. Program

Ph.D. (2005) MIT Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences


Dr. Lyuba Novi

Collaborating postdoctoral researcher with Bracco group


Ahron Cervania

Ph.D. Student (EAS)

M.S. (2021) University of Victoria


Qi Zhang

Ph.D Student (OSE)

M.S. (2021) Xiamen University


Tyler Vollmer

Collaborating Ph.D. Candidate (OSE) with Lynch-Stieglitz group


David Clark

Undergraduate research assistant


Caleb Ukaonu

Undergraduate research assistant


Previous group members

(MS and PhD students)

Annika Jersild

currently at Max Planck Institute in Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

Ph.D. (2022)


Daoxun Sun

Currently at Deep-sea research center, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China

Ph.D. (2020)


Filippos Tagklis

Currently at University of Miami

Ph.D. (2020)


Anh L. D. Pham

Currently postdoctral researcher at Sorbonne Université in Paris (Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, IPSL)

Ph.D. (2019)


Yohei Takano

Currently researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Ph.D. (2017)


Jackie Valett

Currently associate director of programs at Emory University

M.S. (2015)


Daniel C. Jones

Currently oceanographer at British Antarctic Survey, Senior member of Darwin College at Cambridge University

Ph.D. (2013)


Wei-Ching Hsu

Currently postdoctral fellow at Internaitonal Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii

M.S. (2013)


Molly Woloszyn

Currently regional drought information coordinator, National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)

M.S. (2010)


(Undergraduate Students)

Luke Dorrian

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Physical Oceanography


Brittney Vroom

2021 EAS REU fellow