People
Faculty
Aditi Sheshadri
Assistant Professor of Earth System Science
Aditi_Sheshadri@stanford.edu
I joined Stanford's department of Earth system science as an assistant professor in January 2018. Prior to this, I was a Junior Fellow of the Simons Foundation in New York, and a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University’s Department of Applied Physics and Applied Math the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, hosted by Lorenzo M. Polvani. I got my Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science at MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, in the Program for Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate, where I worked with R. Alan Plumb. I’m broadly interested in atmosphere and ocean dynamics, climate variability, and general circulation.
I'm particularly interested in fundamental questions in atmospheric dynamics, which I address using a combination of theory, observations, and both idealized and comprehensive numerical experiments. Current areas of focus include the dynamics, variability, and change of the mid-latitude jets and storm tracks and the stratospheric polar vortex.
Related Links: Climate System Dynamics
Postdoctoral Scholars
Laura Mansfield
Postdoctoral Scholar
lauraman@stanford.edu
I am interested in how machine learning and Bayesian statistics can assist our understanding of the climate and weather. While at Stanford, I will explore how these tools can improve gravity wave parameterisations in atmospheric models. I recently completed my PhD at the University of Reading, which focused on emulating climate models to estimate the surface temperature response to changes in anthropogenic forcings, including both long-lived greenhouse gases and short-lived aerosol pollutants. This research took a Bayesian perspective to learn relationships between climate change patterns and forcings. Prior to this, I studied dynamical systems and fluid dynamics in my MRes, after coming from an undergraduate degree in Physics at Imperial College London. Outside of work, my interests include dancing, running and cycling.
Graduate Students
Rob King
Graduate Student
Rob grew up about 30 miles outside of London & he completed his MSci in Physics at Imperial College London, graduating in 2020 during which he conducted his Masters project in cloud microphysical effects that occur within the eyewall of tropical cyclones. He is excited to explore large scale atmospheric dynamics during his PhD at Stanford. Before starting his PhD, Rob has worked as an Earth Observation Engineer at GMV NSL and as a Software Engineer for Octopus Electric Juice. Outside of work, Rob is a keen runner and cyclist as well as (very) amateur film photographer.
Alumni
Marshall Borrus
Research and Project Assistant, Feb 2021-July 2022. Worked on model setup, predictability, helped run DataWave. Now at Benchmarks Labs.
Doug Klink III
Undergraduate researcher, Summer 2019/Summer 2020, worked on eddy length scales and balloon observations.