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Ryan Clare
Ryan is a post-master's research fellow studying the role of seasonal snow cover on synoptic mid-latitude storms using numerical mesoscale models and PV analysis as part of the Snow Cover project. Web page Email
Jonathan Thom
Jonathan is a Researcher III and manages and engineers all aspects of operations of the Greenhouse Gas Spectroscopy lab, short-term field experiments, our long-term Ameriflux sites, the NTL LTER Mendota Buoy and flux tower, and SSEC rooftop instrumentation.Email
Minmin Sun
Minmin is a visiting Ph.D. student from Sun-yat Sen University working on remote sensing of carbon cycles. Email
Xiaowu Wu
Xiaowu is a visiting Ph.D. student from Beijing Forestry University working on carbon and water cycle modeling and forest management. Email
Ammara Talib
Ammara is developing regional hydrologic models to evaluate the role of drought and water withdrawals on regional water use in regions such as the Central Sands, WI Email
Anthony Crespo
Anthony is advised by Prof. Angela Rowe, and a member of the Ecometeorology lab who is conducting research on hail growth dynamics in the RELAMPAGO experiment in Argentina. Email
Blake Olson
Blake is an undergraduate Bio 152 intern studying midwestern forest management and ecosystem feedbacks
Melissa Breeden
Melissa is a post-doc working on potential vorticity based diagnosis of snow cover on mid-latitude cyclones as part of the Snow Cover project. See her website. Email
Susi Wiesner
Susi is a UW Dairy Innovation Hub post-doc in Paul Stoy’s lab with joint appointments in Ecometeorology Lab and the USDA ARS Dairy Forage Research Center. She is studying agricultural sustainability and carbon and energy fluxes. Email Twitter
Brian Butterworth
Brian Butterworth is a post-doctoral scholar leading management and analysis on the CHEESEHEAD project in surface-energy fluxes. Website Email
Leo Mikula
Leo is an post-baccalaureate research intern participating in the CHEESEHEAD project supporting ultralight aircraft and ground sampling operations in summer-fall 2019. Email
James Mineau
James Mineau is a recent UW-Madison Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences graduate. James is conducting research on contributions of small lakes to regional scaling of carbon fluxes for the CHEESEHEAD19 field experiment. Email
Andi Muttaqin
Andi Muttaqin is a Ph.D. student from Indonesia, sponsored by the Fulbright program, studying monsoon land-atmosphere feedbacks. Website
Dan Hauck
Dan Hauck is an undergraduate at Edgewood College. He is working on the USDA Dairy Forage greenhouse gas scaling project. Email
Danielle LaLuzerne
Danielle LaLuzerne is a high-school intern from Madison West High School working on snow depth measurement and ecosystem fluxes
Xiang Liu
Xiang Liu is a summer undergraduate researcher working on relationships between air pollution and plant productivity as observed by satellites
Jordan Ambrose
Jordan is a summer REU student working on CHEESEHEAD microclimate variations
Luise Wanner
Luise Wanner is a visiting Ph.D. student from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology IMK-IFU in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany working on CHEESEHEAD LES analyses
Marleen van Soest
Marleen van Soestr is a visiting Ph.D. student from Utrecht University in the Netherlands working on atmospheric boundary-layer modeling.
Emily Mather
Emily earned her M.S. studying flux tower advection budgets in the lab in 2024 and is currently a Ph.D. study working on micrometeorological impacts of agrivoltaics. [LinkedIn]
Ree Klumb
Ree is a junior in AOS and working on a senior thesis in Ecometeorology in 2022-2023
Ilana Greenspan
Ilana is a sophomore at Cornell University and working summer 2022 as an Ameriflux summer intern
Raia Ottenheimer
Raia is a sophomore at University of Toronto and working summer 2022 as an Ameriflux summer intern. Website
Tyler Varana
Tyler is a rising senior at La Follette high school in MMSD and participating in the Science Research Internship (SRI) program with our lab this summer
Derek Hsu
Derek is a senior at University of Northern Colorado and is a part of the AOS summer student research program as an CHEESEHEAD19 REU
Bethany Blakely
Bethany is a Researcher II working on projects related to scaling fluxes and hyperspectral traits in CHEESEHEAD and on evaluating the impact of bison restoration on grasslands .LinkedIn
Isabella Butcher-Salazar
Bella is an undergraduate STORM REU participant in the Ecometeorology lab for summer 2023 working on contribution of small water bodies to regional surface energy balance.
Sai Akanksha Denduluri
Akanksha is a high school rising senior participating in the MMSD Summer Research Internship. She is working on scaling the impact of forest management and climate change on the carbon cycle.
Genevieve Kell
Gen is an undergraduate hourly and Bio152 research student in the lab working on the agrivoltaics projects. She is a junior at UW majoring in Environmental Sciences
Allen Kaplan
Allen joined the lab in Fall 2024 as an M.S. student in the Environment and Resources program. He is conducting research on understanding forest nutrient flows based on level of anthropogenic management. [LinkedIn]
Ryenne Julian
Rye is joining the lab summer 2024 as a STORM REU undergraduate researcher. LinkedIn
Liz Garcia
Liz worked summer 2024 as a UW LASR research intern and rejoined summer 2025 as an REU intern working on agrivoltaics chamber fluxes and thermal imagery mapping.
Jonathan Tong
Jonathan is working 2024-2025 as an undergraduate intern on our warm winter project. [LinkedIn]
Merritt Mauer
Merritt is a high school student with the MMSD Student Research Internship program for summer 2024.
Kiran Menon
Kiran joined the AOS Ph.D. program in fall 2024 and is working on scaling of surface energy fluxes.
Mikki Wilburn
Mikki is an M.S. student in Agroecology who joined Fall 2024 to research inclusion of organic and regenerative agriculture practices in ecosystem models. [LinkedIn]
Xueer Bai
Xueer is a visiting international exchange student from China Agricultural University in Beijing, China and working on measurements and analysis of water, carbon and energy fluxes in agricultural ecosystems.
Mary Tessa
Mary is a Madison Metropolitan School District Student Research Intern working in the lab summer 2025 on evapotranspiration remote sensing
Jenna Drew
Jenna is a professional M.S. summer research intern working on developing web-based data dashboards for our new Kegonsa Solar array. [LinkedIn]
Atharva Tyagi
Atharva is a high school intern working on GPU accelerated flux footprint modeling in complex surfaces [LinkedIn]
Ayhan Cagliyan
Ayhan is an MS student in Agroecology who joined Spring 2026 and is working on eddy covariance applications in agriculture. [LinkedIn]
Samantha Holton
Samantha is a Bio152 Spring 2026 researcher working on urban greening trends [LinkedIn]