Earth System Dynamics Lab

Marcus is an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona. His research group conducts novel research in the fields of atmospheric dynamics, (paleo-)climatology, and glaciology to understand the evolution of the climate system over multi-millennial time scales. Numerical modeling is an important component of his research program, and the group is utilizing models over a broad range of complexities: from conceptual and linear steady-state models, to fully coupled state-of-the-art Earth-system models.

Email: lofverstrom at arizona dot edu
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Asiya is a second-year PhD candidate in the Geosciences department. She is investigating factors controlling hydroclimate variability in South America through the Holocene and into the future.

Holly is a second-year master student in the Geosciences department. She is working on the connection between troposphere-stratosphere wave interactions and cold air outbreaks in midlatitudes.

Hope is a first-year master student in the Geosciences department. She is working on an NSF funded project aiming to reconstruct the climate and Greenland Ice Sheet extent in the Last Interglacial period using paleo-climate data assimilation.

Kay is exploring to what extent orbitally driven past warm periods, such as the Last Interglacial and the mid-Holocene, can be used as process analogs for anthropogenic climate change. Specifically, how the Greenland surface mass balance is modulated by orbital vs CO2 forcing.

Gigi is investigating the role of topography and thermal forcing for controlling the strength of the North American Monsoon.

Michelle is investigating the dynamical underpinnings of atmospheric rivers in past and future climates.