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Dr. Charles (Charlie) Zender

Professor of Earth System Science and Computer Science

Department of Earth System Science
3200 Croul Hall
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697

Office: 3323 Croul Hall
Telephone: (949) 891-2429
Fax: (949) 824-3874
Email: zender@uci.edu

Office Hours: Fridays 4:00–5:00 PM and by appointment
Additional Office Hours (Fall only): After ESS H90 classes 12:30–1:30 PM

Biography
Activism

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Researchers:

• Dr. Chloe Whicker-Clarke (01/2024-present), Associate Project Scientist: Earth system model development of snow and ice processes on ice sheets

Postdocs:

• Open position available

Graduate Students:

• Juan Tolento (8/2020-present), PhD candidate in Earth System Science: Spectrally Resolved Surface Albedo
• Lili Manzo (7/2022-present), PhD student in Earth System Science

Alumni: Former graduate students, post-docs, researchers, and software-engineers:

• Dr. Adam Schneider (12/2018-12/2022), Postdoc and Associate Specialist: Ice sheet climatic mass balance and firn processes
• Dr. Wenshan Wang (8/2012–9/2021), PhD and postdoc in Earth System Science: The role of clouds in Greenland melt
• Zachary Wolff, PhD student in Earth System Science: Sea ice emissivity
• Henry Butowsky (10/2000–4/2010; 8/2015–8/2020), Scientific Programmer: Efficient Data Analysis with Storage-Layer Constraints
• Dr. Morgan Gorris (9/2014–8/2019), PhD in Earth System Science (jointly advised by James T. Randerson)
• Dr. Bob Allen (10/2008–10/2010). Post-doc on polar climate responses to anthropogenic forcing. Now professor at UCR.
• Dr. Huisheng Bian (10/2001–9/2003): Postdoc on Mineral Dust & Atmospheric Chemistry. Now researcher at UMBC GEST/NASA GSFC.
• Dr. Scott Capps (3/2005–11/2009), PhD in Earth System Science: “Surface Wind Speed Distributions: Implications for Climate and Wind Power” (PDF). Then postdoc at UCLA, now at Vertum Partners.
• Dr. Mark Flanner (3/2003–6/2007): PhD in Earth System Science: “Effects of Vertically-Resolved Solar Heating, Snow Aging, and Black Carbon on Snow-Albedo Feedback” (PDF). Then ASP Postdoc at NCAR. Now professor at U. Michigan.
• Dr. Alf Grini (1/2002–2/2004): PhD in Geosciences: “Natural Aerosols in the Global Atmosphere” (U. Oslo) (PDF). Then software engineer in Norway. Now researcher with CICERO in Oslo.
• Dr. Qin Han (3/2005–12/2010), PhD in Earth System Science: Crustal Tracers in the Atmosphere and Ocean: Relating their Concentrations, Fluxes, and Ages (PDF).
• Alex Krolewski (6/2010–4/2012), University High School student: Characterizing Fire-emitted Aerosol Plume Shapes. Now student at Harvard.
• Dr. Chao Luo (2/2005–10/2006): Researcher on Aerosols and Atmospheric Chemistry. Now researcher with Cornell/UCSB.
• Dr. Harry Mangalam (2/2005–3/2006): Specialist in Scientific Computing. Now with UCI NACS/RCS.
• Dr. David Newman (11/2001–4/2003): Specialist in Scientific Computing. Then researcher with UCI ICS. Now with Google.
• Dr. Mike Tosca (7/2006–3/2012), PhD in Earth System Science: Fire and smoke in the Earth system: Evaluating the impact of fire aerosols on regional and global climate. Now Research Scientist at JPL.
• Pedro Vicente (6/2012–2015), Scientific Programmer: Simplifying and accelerating model evaluation by NASA satellite data. Now researcher at Space Research.
• Dr. Daniel Wang (10/2005–11/2008), PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: “Compilation, Locality Optimization, and Managed Distributed Execution of Scientific Dataflows” (joint with S. Jenks of EECS) (PDF). Now researcher at SLAC.
• Dr. Xianwei Wang (6/2008–12/2010). Post-doc on detecting anthropogenic influences on global snow cover. Now professor at Sun Yat-Sen University.