Leadership
William D. Collins
Lead Principal Investigator and Laboratory Research Manager
WDCollins@lbl.gov
510-495-2407
website
Uncertainty of Extremes: Experiments to explore how uncertainty in observations and models affect our understanding of extremes
Claudia Tebaldi
Technical Co-Manager
Climate Scientist/Statistician, working at the intersection of physical climate and impact sciences.
Technical Leads
Christina (Chris) M. Patricola
Modeling Extreme Events: Understanding and simulating the physical mechanisms that drive variability and change in the spatio-temporal characteristics of extreme events
Travis A. O’Brien
Computation and Predictions: Oversight of software development, high performance pipelines, and metrics for extremes and UQ; Creation of the ILIAD (InitiaLized-ensemble Identify, Analyze, Develop) framework for improvement in extreme events simulated with CESM
Mark D. Risser
Detection and Designation: Description, detection, and designation of extremes in data and models
Senior Personnel
Alan Rhoades
Understanding and simulating changes in mountain hydroclimate systems
Paul Ullrich
paullrich@ucdavis.edu
530-400-9817
website
Data Production and Analysis: Regional and global climate modeling, data analysis algorithms and tools, climate data metrics and evaluation
Postdoctoral, Graduate, & Undergraduate Researchers
Emily Bercos-Hickey
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Extreme weather and climate variability
Héctor Inda Díaz
Ph.D. student (advisor: Dr. Travis A. O’Brien)
Lagrangian Methods for Tracking Extremes
Huanping Huang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Detection and attribution of hydroclimate extremes
Ned Molter
Ph.D. candidate (advisor: Dr. William D. Collins)
Statistics of Extreme Rainfall
Mohammed Ombadi
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Causal inference and attribution of hydroclimatic extremes
Likun Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Flexible modeling of spatial extremes with non-stationarity
Yang Zhou
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Tracking and understanding extreme moisture transport in current and future climates