Flavio Lehner
Assistant Professor
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Flavio is a climate scientist and Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University and Chief Climate Scientist for the non-profit Polar Bears International. His interests range from seasonal to centennial climate variability, how it imprints on regional weather and climate, and how it influences our ability to detect and attribute changes in climate. He focuses on hydroclimate dynamics and large-scale atmospheric circulation.
Hanjun Kim
Postdoctoral Associate
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Hanjun is a postdoctoral associate who earned his Ph.D. from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea. He investigates the causes of climate projection uncertainty, focusing on the hydrological cycle. He has utilized concepts of the atmospheric and oceanic teleconnections, energy balance, and radiative feedbacks to understand the mechanisms of global and regional climate change.
Ankur Dixit
Postdoctoral Associate
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Ankur is a postdoctoral associate, having earned a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He worked on hydroclimate modeling for the Himalayan basin to study the climate change impacts on snow/water fluxes in the region. He has diverse research interests including climate change/modeling, hydrological modeling, parameter optimization, remote sensing and GIS. Post-PhD, he worked in Climate Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) India until joining Cornell University.
Faranak Tootoonchi
Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher
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Faranak’s research interest is centered around understanding present and future climate impacts on droughts and floods, as well as on crop yields, through statistical methods and models.
She has been granted a three year mobility postdoc funded by Swedish research council (Vetenskapsrådet), one year of which will be spent at Cornell University to work with Flavio. In this project she is looking into changing winter climate conditions at high latitudes – and explore how these changes can cascade into other seasons and impact the agricultural sector.
Yan-Ning Kuo
Graduate Student
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Yan-Ning is a PhD student in Atmospheric Science, having recently completed a Bsc in Atmospheric Science from National Taiwan University. Her research interests encompass hydrologic responses to climate variability and change, as well as land-atmosphere interactions.
Andrew Kwong
Undergraduate Student
Andrew is an undergraduate student in Atmospheric Science working with Prof. Flavio Lehner and Ankur Dixit on studying the effects of tropical sea-surface temperatures on atmospheric rivers impacting the Western US.
Former group members
Ashley Huang
Undergraduate Student
Ashley has been working with Prof. Flavio Lehner and Yan-Ning Kuo on using climate model simulations to investigate influence of tropical sea surface temperatures on global weather and climate, while completing her undergrad degree at the Australian National University. She is now a graduate student in Atmospheric Science at Cornell University, working with Profs. Hitchcock and Lin.
Jack Lefkowitz
Undergraduate Student
Jack is an undergraduate student in Atmospheric Science whoe was working with Prof. Flavio Lehner and Ankur Dixit, studying the effects of tropical sea-surface temperatures on atmospheric rivers impacting the Western US.
HaoYu “Richard” Zhuang
Undergraduate Student
HaoYu was an undergraduate student in Atmospheric Science and worked with Prof. Art DeGaetano and Flavio on using pattern recognition methods to identify atmospheric predictors of ice storms over the US in observations and climate model simulations.
Richard went on to start a PhD at the University of Washington.
Richard Toohey
Graduate Student
Richard was a PhD student in Atmospheric Science probing existing and developing new constraints for Arctic sea ice projections.
Richard started a job with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Josh Sayre
Undergraduate Student
Josh was an undergraduate student in Geology and worked on a semester project quantifying the drought sensitivity of the Western US with respect to atmospheric ridging and associated precipitation and temperature anomalies.
Josh went on to start a PhD at Western Washington University.
Opportunities
Check out current openings in our group here: https://flaviolehner.eas.cornell.edu/opportunities