Desai Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1225 W Dayton St
Madison, WI 53706 USA

Lab members

• Dr. Ankur Desai, Asst. Professor, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
• Ben Sulman, Graduate Research Asst., 2007-
• Jonathan Thom, Associate Research Scientist
• Shelley Knuth, Research Specialist
• Will Ahue, Graduate Research Asst., beginning Fall 2008
• Ruben Behnke, Graduate Research Asst., beginning Fall 2008
• Past Members
• Collaborators
• Current openings
• Internal lab meeting notes

Research

• A Brief Overview
• Projects
  • Wetlands Improving prediction of climate change impacts on wetland-rich landscapes
  • CyCLeS Cycling of Carbon in Lake Superior
  • ACME07 : Airborne Carbon in the Mountains Experiment 2007
  • SGP97 : Land surface influence on atmospheric boundary layer properties
• Publications
• Presentations
• Consortia and Centers
  • ChEAS : Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study - Terrestrial carbon and water fluxes in the upper Midwest
  • UW Center for Climatic Research (CCR)
• Data Access
  • Desai Lab Data repository
  • ChEAS Data repository

Teaching

• Teaching Philosophy
• Classes taught:
  • AOS/IES 171: Global Change: Atmospheric Issues
  • AOS 520: Bioclimatology and Biogeochemistry
  • AOS 532: Environmental Biophysics
  • AOS 773: Turbulence, Micrometeorology, and Boundary Layers
  • AOS 990: Current and Classical Problems in Meteorology

Service and Outreach

• Our connection to the Wisconsin Idea
• UW Khorana Program
• Madison Ecology Group
• GLOBE Program
• RBGC07: Regional trace gas and energy exchange - NCAR ASP Workshop
• Flux Measurement and Advanced Modeling 2008 - Data Assimilation Presenter wiki

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Keywords: land-atmosphere interaction, regional biogeochemistry, eddy covariance technique, flux towers, carbon dioxide, methane, boundary layer, micrometeorology, turbulence, terrestrial ecosystems, forests, wetlands, land management, climate change, global warming, climate policy

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