The following table shows potential mentors for the Climate REU. In any given year any combination of these faculty and post-doctoral scholar mentors could be involved in the REU but never all of them at the same time. Students who see a mentor they’re interested in working with should feel free to reach out to them. Faculty and post-doctoral scholars at Penn State interested in mentoring should contact the program directors.

Name	Department	Expertise	Contact
Alan Taylor	Geography	Ecological biogeography, vegetation dynamics, role of natural and human disturbance and climate variation on forests	aht1@psu.edu
Alfonso Mejia	Civil and Environmental Engineering	Hydrometeorology, hydroclimatology, climate impacts, urban hydrology, and water sustainability	amejia@engr.psu.edu
Anthony Didlake	Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences	Use of radars and numerical models to examine the cloud processes of tropical cyclones	didlake@psu.edu
Brandi Gaertner	Geography	Hydrology, climate change, normalized difference vegetation index, growing season length, spatial analysis, spacial statistics, R statistical planning and modeling, and GISciences.	bah6009@psu.edu
Brian King	Geography	Production of livelihoods and environmental change in the developing world	king@psu.edu
Chris Forest	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Uncertainty of climate projections, climate system feedbacks, regional climate change	ceforest@psu.edu
Colin Zarzycki	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Extreme atmospheric phenomena, high-resolution modeling	czarzycki@psu.edu
David Stensrud	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Ensemble forecasting, data assimilation, severe weather, convective-scale predictability, North American monsoon	david.stensrud@psu.edu
Erica Smithwick	Geography	Landscape and ecosystem ecology, spatial patterns and ecosystem function, pyrogeography, soil biogeochemistry	smithwick@psu.edu
Gregory Jenkins	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Regional climate change, numerical modeling, Saharan dust effects on climate and health	gsj1@psu.edu
Hong Wu	Landscape Architecture	Green stormwater infrastructure, urban water resilience, hydrological modeling	huw24@psu.edu
Ida Djenontin	Geography	Human-environment interactions, modeling, environmental governance, sustainable development, climate change	ind5050@psu.edu
Isabelle Holland-Luluwicz	Anthropology	Environmental archaeology, complex socio-ecological systems, zooarchaeology of vertebrates and invertebrates, paleoenvironmental reconstruction	ihlul@psu.edu
Jacob Carstens	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Tropical weather and climate	carstens@psu.edu
Jenni Evans	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Tropical cyclones, tropical cyclone sensitivity to climate, extratropical transition of tropical cyclones	Jenni.Evans@psu.edu
Jerry Harrington	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Cloud microphysical measurements and cloud modeling	jyh10@psu.edu
Jia Li	Statistics	Statistical modeling and learning, data mining, image processing, image annotation and retrieval	jiali@psu.edu
John Peters	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Atmospheric dynamics, clouds and cloud physics, moist thermodynamics, mesoscale meteorology, mesoscale convective systems, supercells	John.M.Peters@psu.edu
Jose Fuentes	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric boundary layer, pollutant deposition, biogenic hydrocarbons, carbon sequestration	jdfuentes@psu.edu
Julio Urbina	Computer Science and Engineering	Electromagnetics, remote sensing and space systems	jvu1@psu.edu
Katherine Freeman	Geoscience	Organic geochemistry, isotopic biogeochemistry, paleoclimate, astrobiology	khf4@psu.edu
Kenneth Davis	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Terrestrial carbon and hydrologic cycles, land–atmosphere interactions, urban climate and environment	kjd10@psu.edu
Kimberly Van Meter	Geography	Water quality, wetlands, biogeochemistry, environmental modeling, remote sensing, human-environment interactions	vanmeterkvm@psu.edu
Luke Trusel	Geography	Impacts of climate variability and change on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets	trusel@psu.edu
Laifang Li	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Multidecadal climate variability, Subtropial high dynamics, Bayesian inference on extreme events, Salinity and the oceanic water cycle, Forcing mechanisms on North Atlantic SST variability	lfl5240@psu.edu
Li Li	Civil and Environmental Engineering	Climate change and human activity impact on water quantity and quality, natural attenuation and remediation strategies	lxl35@psu.edu
Manzhu Yhu	Geography	Geographic information science, spatiotemporal theories and applications, big data and cloud computing, natural hazards and extreme weather, environmental informatics, spatial data science and deep learning	mqy5198@psu.edu
Margarita López-Uribe	Entomology	Impact of environmental change and management on the demography and health of bee populations	mml64@psu.edu
Margot Kaye	Environmental Science and Management	Impact of climate and human land use on forests dynamics	mwk12@psu.edu
Matthew Fantle	Geoscience	Isotope geochemistry, global geochemical cycles, paleoclimate, diagenetic modeling, remote sensing	msf17@psu.edu
Melissa Gervais	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Climate dynamics, impacts of oceans and sea ice on atmospheric circulation, societal impacts of climate change	mmg62@psu.edu
Miriam Freedman	Chemistry	Interaction of aerosols with radiation and clouds, processing of aerosol particles in the environment	maf43@psu.edu
Natasha Miles	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Boundary Layer and turbulence, earth-atmosphere interactions, carbon cycling	nmiles@psu.edu
Raymond Najjar	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Marine carbon cycle, marine biogeochemistry, coastal processes, regional climate change	rgn1@psu.edu
Richard Alley	Geoscience	Glaciology, ice and climate, sea level change, abrupt climate change	rba6@psu.edu
Sukyoung Lee	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Global climate, general circulation, westerly jets, polar amplification of surface temperature, physical oceanography	sxl31@psu.edu
Wangda Zuo	Architectural Engineering	Building energy solutions, indoor air quality, human health and productivity, smart, sustainable and resilient cities	wangda.zuo@psu.edu
Xingchao (XC) Chen	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Data assimilation, monsoons, regional climate	xzc55@psu.edu
Ying Pan	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Boundary layer and turbulence	yyp5033@psu.edu
Yunji Zhang	Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	Tropical cyclones, mesoscale convective systems, and severe thunderstorms; Ensemble-based data assimilation and numerical weather prediction	yuz31@psu.edu