● Design, perform, and communicate research on climate and ecosystems● Supervise and mentor graduate students and postdoctoral researchers

● Develop and lead an internationally recognized research program on climate and atmospheric processes● Design, perform, and communicate research on climate and ecosystems● Supervise and mentor graduate students and postdoctoral researchers

● Teach undergraduate and graduate level courses● Advise undergraduate and graduate student researchers● Collaborate with faculty and students on research related to climate and atmospheric processes

● Developed analytic and computational method to show how clouds and rain should change with grid size in atmospheric models● Developed a fast and novel method for estimating probability distributions● Served as one of four section leaders for a $2.25 M/yr proposal (accepted 10/1/2013) to improve our ability to attribute the cause of changes in extreme weather phenomena: http://earthsciences.typepad.com/blog/2013/10/capturing-extremes-the-cascade-sfa.html● Published three papers in peer-reviewed journals

● Added new physics software to an atmospheric model to provide fog-simulation capability● Collaborated with Italian scientists on upgrading the software framework of an atmospheric model● Developed method to reduce the signal-to-noise ratio in regional climate model sensitivity tests.

● Designed and taught the upper division course "Atmospheric Thermodynamics and Cloud Physics"

● Collected and analyzed X-ray absorption data to characterizeproperties of novel materials● Upgraded legacy X-ray data processing code; added multiplenew features and significantly improved data reduction rate● Created a program to do batch analyses of X-ray data