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Applied Climate for Environment & Society (ACES) Laboratory


For prospective graduate students interested in joining the lab, please see the section on applying for program admission on the research page.

Research Group and Advisees

Current Members
  • Mona Arora
      (Geography) Malaria, climate, tropical disease & public health
  • Stephen Bieda
      PhD: (Arid Lands):     North American monsoon, thunderstorms and flooding
  • Mindy Butterworth
      PhD:     (Geography) Climate and disease, dengue fever
  • Heidi Brown
      Research Associate/Postdoc: West Nile virus, bluetongue, plague and climate
      PhD (Yale), Postdoc (Oxford), CDC
  • Stephen Delgado
      PhD:     (Geography) Human-ecosystem health, Latin America, Chagas disease
  • Casey Kahn-Thornbrugh
      PhD:     (Geography) Western and traditional climate knowledge, Native American education
      MA: (Geography) CLIMAS Drought impacts on Navajo/Hopi communities & lands
  • Cory Morin
      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
Emeritus Members (approximately reverse chronology, including job placement and/or current affiliation)
  • James Tamerius (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 (Staff Scientist EPA, now Sustainability Director at UA)
       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, Bourn Partners, Commercial Real Estate, 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.
      Syn    optic climatology & climate variability
  • Susan Kliman (Klimatic Architectural Design)
          PhD: (Arid Lands) Urban microclimate/architecture and vegetation
  • Jonathan Cox (Yale medical school)
      BA:      (Geography) NASA Space Grant intern
  • Andreas Kuebler
      V    isiting 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
  • Greg Packin (NGA)
      MA:     (Geography) Southwest climate
  • Brian Decker
      BA:      NASA Space Grant intern
  • Dave Guiliano (EPA Region 9)
      MA:     (Geography) Western USA climate, air quality
  • Dave Adams (Atmos Sci Ph.D., then Scripps Postdoc)
      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