Applied Climate for Environment & Society (ACES) Laboratory

Research Group and Advisees

• Mona Arora
    PhD: (Geography) Malaria, climate, tropical disease & public health
• Mindy Butterworth
    PhD: (Geography) Climate and disease, dengue fever
• Cory Morin
    Research Associate/Postdoc: Complex simulation modeling of vector-borne disease systems
    PhD: (Geography) CLIMAS Dynamic climate-mosquito population modeling
    MA: (Geography) CLIMAS Climate and mosquito-borne disease modeling
• Sonia Sen
    BS: (Honors Program: Computer Science, Geography, Spanish) Climate-health, mosquito modeling
  

• Stephen Delgado (Research Scientist, Public Health, Univ. of Arizona)
    PhD: (Geography) Human-ecosystem health, Latin America, Chagas disease
• Casey Kahn-Thornbrugh (Program Director, Tohono O'odham Community College, Land Grant Office of Sustainability)
    PhD: (Geography) Western and traditional climate knowledge, Native American (Program Director for
  the TOCC Land Grant Office of Sustainability)
   education
    MA: (Geography) CLIMAS Drought impacts on Navajo/Hopi communities & lands
• Heidi Brown (Asst. Prof., Public Health, University of Arizona)
    Postdoc/Research Associate: West Nile virus, bluetongue, plague and climate
    PhD (Yale), Postdoc (Oxford), CDC
  
• Stephen Bieda (Director of Training for the 25th Operational Weather Squadron, U.S. Air Force)
    PhD: (Arid Lands): North American monsoon, thunderstorms and flooding
• James Tamerius (Asst. Prof., Univ. of Iowa)
    Postdoc, Columbia University
    PhD: (Geography) Influenza seasonality, climate and health, valley fever
    MA: (Geography) CLIMAS Sub-regional climate variability
• Beth Karasz
    MS: (Natural Science): Science teaching, mosquito development and climate factors
• Mary Glueck (Science Education, BASIS Tucson)
    Research Associate/postdoc: WestMap climate mapping, valley fever, climate variability
    PhD (Alaska-Fairbanks), Postdoc (Univ. of Arizona)
• Erika Wise (Asst. Prof., Univ. of North Carolina)
    PhD: (Geography) Western climate variability, streamflow & tree-rings
    MA: (Geography) CLIMAS Climate & air quality trends
• Jenna McPhee Myers (Nat'l Weather Service, Western Region HQ, now NOAA Climate Services)
    MA: (Geography) CLIMAS Climate, drought, downscaling of seasonal climate forecasts
• Rick Brandt (Technical Editor, American Meteorological Society)
    PhD: (Geography) North American monsoon climate and wildfire
• Chris Uejio (PhD Univ. Wisconsin, now a postdoc at NCAR)
    MA: (Geography) CLIMAS Climate & mosquitoes, West Nile virus
• Joe Abraham (Sustainability Director at UA, previously Staff Scientist EPA)
    PhD: (Geography) NASA Space Grant Fellow, drought policy, vulnerability and spatial analysis
    MA: (Geography) EPA Real-time air quality mapping (http://www.airinfonow.org/)
• Claire Kleese
    BA: (Geography) Urban heat islands
• Cindy Sorrensen (Asst. Prof., Texas Tech)
    Postdoc/Asst. Research Social Scientist: HERO & human dimensions of global change
    PhD (Ohio State)
• Paula Decker (UA Geog PhD)
    MA: (Geography) HERO Social vulnerability to climate change and variability
• Brenda Bonanno (GIS analyst, Tucson)
    MA: (Geography) Valley fever, health and environment
• Mike Crimmins (Asst. Prof. & Climate Extension Specialist, University of Arizona)
    PhD: (Geography) NASA Space Grant Fellow, wildfire climatology & WALTER
• David Brown (Asst. Prof., Univ. of New Hampshire, then LSU, now NOAA Climate Services)
    PhD: (Geography) Western US climate variability and impacts   MA: CLIMAS Fine-scale climate mapping
• Korine Kolivras (Asst. Prof., Virginia Tech)
    PhD: (Geography) NASA Space Grant Fellow, climate & dengue fever
    MA:  (Geography) CLIMAS Valley Fever and Climate
• Jeannette Dooley (fieldwork in China)
    BA: NASA Space Grant intern, climate and health
• Tamara Wilson (co-advised with J. Betancourt)
    MA: (Geography) Baja California climate, CLIMAS, Desert Lab
• Lucas Murray (commercial GIS)
    BA:  (Geography) HERO REU in GIS, air quality & climate, and NASA Space Grant intern
• Sean Helfrich (Natl. Ice Center)
    PhD student:  (Geography) Snow climatology
• Zbigniew Ustrnul (Visiting Fulbright Scholar 2001-02)
    Assoc. Prof., Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Mgmt.
    Synoptic climatology & climate variability
• Susan Kliman (Klimatic Architectural Design)
    PhD: (Arid Lands) Urban microclimate/architecture and vegetation
• Jonathan Cox (UA postdoc, previously Yale medical school)
    BA:  (Geography) NASA Space Grant intern
• Andreas Kuebler
    Visiting graduate scholar:  (Geography) Synoptic climatology, ozone & asthma
• Tereza Cavazos (Asst. Prof., CICESE)
    Postdoc/Lecturer:  CLIMAS Southwest climate variability
    PhD (Penn State), Postdoc (Univ. of Cape Town)
• Lucas Watanabe
    BA:  NASA Space Grant intern
• Jeremy Diem (Assoc. Prof., Georgia State U)
    Postdoc: HERO
    PhD: (Geography)  SMOGMAP air quality mapping
    MA: (Geography) Carbon monoxide forecasting
• Seumas Rogan (Epidemiology Ph.D.)
    MA: (Geography) Medical geography, heavy metals
• Maria Rodriguez (The Nature Conservancy)
    BA:  (Geography) NASA Space Grant intern
• Kurt Angersbach (Westernlabs)
    MA: (Geography) CLIMAS urban water and climate
• Gregory Packin (NGA)
    MA: (Geography) Southwest climate
• Brian Decker
    BA:  NASA Space Grant intern
• David Guiliano (EPA Region 9)
    MA: (Geography) Western USA climate, air quality
• David Adams (Atmos Sci Ph.D., then Scripps Postdoc, then Brazil, and now UNAM)
    MA: (Geography) Monsoon climatology
• Rex Hansen (ESRI)
    MA: (Geography) Geostatistics and pollen dispersal
• Tracey Gutheim (PAG, then GIS consulting)
    MA: (Geography) Air quality trend modeling