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


Yumi Abe

Postdoctral Researcer: Carbon cycle modeling of the Gulf of Alaska, Variability of dissolved Oxygen

Ph.D. Hokkaido University (2024)


Ahron Cervania

Ph.D. Student (EAS)

M.S. (2021) University of Victoria


Qi Zhang

Ph.D Student (OSE)

M.S. (2021) Xiamen University



Previous group members

(MS, PhD postdocs)

Lyuba Novi

currently at National Oceanographic Centre, UK

Postdoc (2022-2024)


Annika Jersild

currently at University of Maryland and NASA

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)