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Tyler Kukla (postdoctoral fellow, NOAA climate & global change)
Interests: land-atmosphere interactions and their effects on the global distribution of forests and grasslands in Earth history.
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Matthew Koszuta (PhD student)
Interests: Regional impacts of global warming on the western US hydroclimate, and especially orographic precipitation.
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Andrew Mandovi (MS student)
Interests: global hydrologic cycle and water isotopes; local and regional responses to climate change; ice-ocean-atmosphere interaction; Atlantic meridional overturning circulation; planetary climates.
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Sawyer Veliz (MS student)
Interests: Mechanisms controlling variability and change in global hydroclimate and precipitation isotopes.
Past group members
Andreas Sandino (undergraduate; now a grad student at Penn State)
Alan Huston (undergraduate; now a grad student at San Jose State)