CU Principal Investigators
John O'Loughlin
Institute of Behavioral Science
Department of Geography
University of Colorado
John O'Loughlin is College Professor of Distinction, Professor of Geography and Faculty Research Associate in the Political and Economic Change Program of the
Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado. He received his Ph.D. in Geography from the Pennsylvania State University in
1973. His research interests are in the spatial analysis of conflict including the
relationship between climate/environmental change and conflict as well as in the
political geography of the post-Soviet Union, including Russian and Ukrainian
geopolitics, Eurasian quasi-states, and ethno-territorial nationalisms. He has also
published on the diffusion of democracy, electoral geography, and the electoral
geography of Nazi Germany. He is editor-in-chief of Political Geography. He teaches undergraduate classes in Political Geography,
Geographies of Global Change, and the Geography of Western Europe, and graduate classes in Political Geography.
Terry McCabe
Institute of Behavioral Science
Department of Anthropology
University of Colorado
Jaroslav Tir
Institute of Behavioral Science
Department of Political Science
University of Colorado
Mara Goldman, Co-PI
Institute of Behavioral Science
University of Colorado
NCAR Principal Investigators
Arlene Laing
Arlene Laing is currently supported by NCAR base funding from the National Science Foundation, contract number NSF0001 and NSF0100. Her research interests are precipitating convective systems, specializing in developing climatologies from satellite data analysis and numerical prediction of precipitation and convection in Africa. Dr. Laing has used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to relate lightning and the El-Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) to wildfire forecasting and applied a mesoscale model to predict volcanic ash deposition.
Jimy Dudhia
Jimy Dudhia is partially supported by NCAR base funding from the National Science Foundation, contract number NSF0001 and NSF0100. His research includes development of physics packages and regional climate capabilities for the Weather Research and Forecast Model (WRF) including the Nested Regional Climate Model.
Andrew Gettelman
Andrew Gettelman's research interests concern the effect of water vapor on the climate of the atmosphere and the chemistry of the stratosphere. Research interests also include the needs and challenges faced by developing scientists in atmospheric science and climatology, and seeking to help those scientists conduct their work better. He is also currently serving as the communications secretary for the Atmospheric Sciences section of the American Geophysical Union. Dr. Gettelman received his PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1999. Prior to attending graduate school, he was a coordinator of the US Climate Action Network in Washington, DC, and an intern with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Joe Tribbia
Joe Tribbia is Head of the Climate Dynamics and Predictability (CDP) section in the Division of Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
