Applied Climate for Environment & Society (ACES) Laboratory

Research Group and Advisees

Current Members

Stephen Bieda
PhD (Arid Lands): North American monsoon, flooding
Mindy Butterworth
PhD: Climate and disease, perceptions, medical geography
Stephen Delgado
PhD: Human-ecosystem health, Latin America, Chagas disease
Mary Glueck
Research Associate: WestMap climate mapping, valley fever, climate variability
Beth Karasz
MS (General Biology): Science teaching, mosquito development under climate and human factors
Cory Morin
PhD: CLIMAS Dynamic climate-mosquito population modeling
MA: CLIMAS Climate and mosquito-borne disease modeling
James Tamerius
PhD: Influenza seasonality, climate and health, valley fever
MA: CLIMAS Sub-regional climate variability
Casey Thornbrugh
PhD: Western and traditional climate knowledge, Native American education
MA: CLIMAS Drought impacts on Navajo/Hopi communities & lands

Emeritus Members (approximately reverse chronology, including job placement and/or current affiliation)

Erika Wise (Asst. Prof., Univ. of Iowa)
PhD: Western climate variability, streamflow & tree-rings
MA: CLIMAS Climate & air quality trends
Jenna McPhee Myers (Nat'l Weather Service, Western Region HQ, now NOAA Climate Services)
MA: CLIMAS Climate, drought, downscaling of seasonal climate forecasts
Rick Brandt (Asst. Prof., Salem State)
PhD: North American monsoon climate and wildfire
Chris Uejio (Univ. Wisconsin)
MA: CLIMAS Climate & mosquitoes, West Nile virus
Joe Abraham (Staff Scientist, EPA Air Quality Region 9)
PhD: NASA Space Grant Fellow, drought policy, vulnerability and spatial analysis
MA: EPA Real-time air quality mapping (http://www.airinfonow.org/)
Claire Kleese
BA: Urban heat islands
Cindy Sorrensen (Asst. Prof., Texas Tech)
Postdoc/Asst. Research Social Scientist: HERO & human dimensions of global change
Paula Decker (UA Geog PhD)
MA: HERO Social vulnerability to climate change and variability
Brenda Bonanno (GIS analyst, Bourn Partners, Commercial Real Estate, Tucson)
MA: Valley fever, health and environment
Mike Crimmins (Asst. Prof. & Climate Extension Specialist, University of Arizona)
PhD: NASA Space Grant Fellow, wildfire climatology & WALTER
David Brown (Asst. Prof., Univ. of New Hampshire, now at LSU)
PhD: Western US climate variability and impacts MA: CLIMAS Fine-scale climate mapping
Korine Kolivras (Asst. Prof., Virginia Tech)
PhD: NASA Space Grant Fellow, climate & dengue fever
MA: CLIMAS Valley Fever and Climate
Jeannette Dooley (fieldwork in China)
BA: NASA Space Grant intern, climate and health
Tamara Wilson (co-advised with J. Betancourt)
MA: Baja California climate, CLIMAS, Desert Lab
Lucas Murray (commercial GIS)
BA: HERO REU in GIS, air quality & climate, and NASA Space Grant intern
Sean Helfrich (Natl. Ice Center)
PhD student: Snow climatology
Zbigniew Ustrnul (Visiting Fulbright Scholar 2001-02)
Assoc. Prof., Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Mgmt.
Synoptic climatology & climate variability
Susan Kliman (Klimatic Architectural Design)
Ph.D. Arid Lands: Urban microclimate/architecture and vegetation
Jonathan Cox (Yale medical school)
BA: NASA Space Grant intern
Andreas Kuebler
Visiting graduate scholar: Synoptic climatology, ozone & asthma
Tereza Cavazos (Asst. Prof., CICESE)
Postdoc/Lecturer: CLIMAS Southwest climate variability
Lucas Watanabe
BA: NASA Space Grant intern
Jeremy Diem (Assoc. Prof., Georgia State U)
Postdoc: HERO
PhD: SMOGMAP air quality mapping
MA: Carbon monoxide forecasting
Seumas Rogan (Epidemiology Ph.D.)
MA: Medical geography, heavy metals
Maria Rodriguez (The Nature Conservancy)
BA: NASA Space Grant intern
Kurt Angersbach (Westernlabs)
MA: CLIMAS urban water and climate
Greg Packin (NGA)
MA: Southwest climate
Brian Decker
BA: NASA Space Grant intern
Dave Guiliano (EPA Region 9)
MA: Western USA climate, air quality
Dave Adams (Atmos Sci Ph.D., then Scripps Postdoc)
MA: Monsoon climatology
Rex Hansen (ESRI)
MA: Geostatistics and pollen dispersal
Tracey Gutheim (PAG, then GIS consulting)
MA: Air quality trend modeling