Principal Investigator:

Dr. Steve Guimond

Areas of Study: Geophysical fluid dynamics with a focus on turbulence, convection and waves in various phenomena from a computational and remote sensing perspective.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr. Shak Karim

Areas of Study: Dr. Karim has extensive experience in numerical modeling, studying the multi-scale dynamics of urban impacts on city-scale convection, TC track deflection, and wildfire-atmospheric interactions. His current research focuses on developing a radar simulator algorithm to retrieve 3D winds from ground-based Doppler radar systems for severe weather applications. He also monitors and manages the near-real-time forecasting system at the SWRC.

Graduate Research Assistants:

Ms. Jackie Aguilar-Delgado (HU)

Area of Study: Understanding the disruption of the Rossby wave pattern from recurving tropical cyclones.

Ms. Aaliyah Perez (HU)

Area of Study: Understanding the structure of the turbulent boundary layer through radar remote sensing.

Mr. Theodore Mackey (HU)

Area of Study: Understanding the value of phased array radars for studies of extreme weather, boundary layers and turbulence.

Mr. Ethan Bruce (HU)

Area of Study: Understanding turbulent dynamics of hurricane intensification using LES and high-order CFD methods, validation.

Alumni of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Group:

Mr. Devin Protzko (UMBC)

Area of Study: Radar measurements of the hurricane boundary layer. Now working at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

Dr. Sydney Sroka (MIT)

Area of Study: Energy transfer in the hurricane boundary layer. Now working at the MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium.

Dr. Yassine Tissaoui (NJIT)

Area of Study: High-order CFD model development for hurricane science. Now working at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Mr. Badrul Hasan (UMBC)

Area of Study: Understanding high-order CFD for hurricanes, machine learning for sub-grid model development. Now getting Ph.D. at UMBC.