Research Group
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| After studying engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Mark earned a Ph.D. in Earth System Science from the University of California – Irvine and studied for two years as an ASP Fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan since 2009, where he leads research on cryosphere-climate interactions and teaches courses on topics of climate and radiative transfer. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 journal articles and was named a Highly Cited Researcher in 2018. He has served as a contributing author to the IPCC Fifth and Sixth Assessment Reports on Climate Change, the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, and the UNEP/WMO Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone. He currently co-chairs the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Expert Group on Short-Lived Climate Forcers. He lives in Ann Arbor with his family, and in limited free time enjoys jogging, swimming, table tennis, and photography. |
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Research Interests:
- Atmospheric Dynamics with a focus on the stratosphere
- Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
- Impact of the 2022 Hunga-Tonga volcanic eruption on the atmosphere
Group Alumni
- Alisher Duspayev (Ph.D. student in the Physics Department, collaborated with during 2022–2024)
- Chloe Whicker-Clarke (Ph.D. student, 2019–2023), now an Associate Project Scientist at the University of California – Irvine.
- Zachary Fair (Ph.D. student, 2018–2021), now a postdoctoral fellow at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
- Jamie Ward (Ph.D. student, 2014–2020), now a postdoctoral fellow in the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR).
- Adam Schneider (Ph.D. student, 2013–2018), now an Associate Scientist at the NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory
- Yang Li (postdoctoral scholar, 2017), now an Assistant Professor at Baylor University.
- Chaoyi Jiao (Ph.D. student, 2010–2015; postdoctoral scholar, 2016-2017)
- Deepak Singh (Ph.D. student, 2013–2016), now an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay.
- Justin Perket (Ph.D. student, 2010–2015), now a software engineer at Princeton / NOAA GFDL.
- Ayoe Buus Hansen (postdoctoral scholar, 2012–2013), now a scientist at the United Kingdom Met Office.
- Alex Gardner (postdoctoral scholar, 2010–2012), now a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) students
- Miles Butler (2019–2020)
- Morgan Douglas (2018–2019)
- Johnny Huang (2018–2019)
- Eric Lian (2018–2019)
- Aaron Weldy (2018–2019)
- Terry Guan (2018–2019)
Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) students
- Julian Arnheim (2020)
- Benjamin (David) Dillahunt (2014)
- Adrianne Engel (2013)
- Lance Rayborn (2013)
Undergraduate researchers
- James Kessler (NOAA GLERL summer fellow, co-mentored with Ayumi Manome) (2015)
- Barbara Doyle (undergraduate researcher, 2014)
- Edwin Tang (undergraduate researcher, 2014)
- Christopher Koh (undergraduate researcher, 2013-2014)
- Menglu Huang (undergraduate researcher, 2013)
- Jordan Feight (undergraduate researcher, 2011)
- Jingyi Bao (undergraduate researcher, 2011)