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NWRA Welcomes Hamid Pahlavan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Boulder Office

January 2024

Hamid has been in the Boulder office as a long-term visitor from Rice University and has now joined NWRA as an employee as of January 16!

He received a PhD in 2022 in Atmospheric Science from UW on “QBO Dynamics and Gravity Wave Characteristics as seen in ERA5 Reanalysis”.

Hamid will be working on an NSF-funded project with Joan Alexander, focusing on Machine-Learning-based strategies for parameterization of gravity wave drag for climate models. It is a four-institute collaborative project with NWRA, Stanford, NYU, and Rice U. https://cssi-gws.github.io/index.html

Please welcome Hamid!

Hamid Pahlavan

Visitor: NWRA welcomes Dr. Denis Cabezas, Designated Assistant Professor, ISEE, Nagoya University

December 2023

Denis will work with Graham Barnes, KD Leka, & Karin Dissauer on data analysis from H-alpha imaging spectroscopy database for investigations into early CME acceleration. He will also present a seminar on Tuesday, December 19 of his recent research work.

Please welcome Dr. Cabezas!

Graham Barnes Karin Dissauer KD Leka