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Project Leadership
 

Paul Ullrich (Project Co-Lead)

University of California, Davis

Project Role

Tasks: Metrics (lead), Software (lead), Datasets, Model Sensitivity
Metrics: Mountain Snowpack, Atmospheric Rivers

Contact

Email: paullrich@ucdavis.edu   |   Phone: (530) 400-9817   |   Webpage: http://climate.ucdavis.edu/



 
 

Andrew Jones (Project Co-Lead)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Project Role

Tasks: Outreach (lead), Uncertainty (lead), Human Impacts
Case Studies: Sacramento-San Joaquin (lead)

Contact

Email: adjones@lbl.gov   |   Webpage: http://eesa.lbl.gov/profiles/andrew-d-jones/

Project Management
 

William Collins

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Project Role

Tasks: Outreach, Uncertainty, Human Impacts

Contact

Email: wdcollins@lbl.gov   |   Webpage: http://eesa.lbl.gov/profiles/william-collins/



 
 

Richard Grotjahn

University of California, Davis

Project Role

Tasks: Metrics, Datasets
Metrics: Precipitation Character and Extremes

Contact

Email: grotjahn@ucdavis.edu   |   Webpage: http://grotjahn.ucdavis.edu/



 
 

Alex Hall

University of California, Los Angeles

Project Role

Tasks: Datasets (lead), Model Sensitivity, Uncertainty, Impacts

Contact

Email: alexhall@atmos.ucla.edu   |   Webpage: http://research.atmos.ucla.edu/csrl/



 
 

Lai-Yung (Ruby) Leung

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Project Role

Tasks: Metrics, Software, Datasets, Impacts

Contact

Email: Ruby.Leung@pnnl.gov   |   Webpage: http://www.pnnl.gov/atmospheric/staff/staff_info.asp?staff_num=5661



 
 

Travis O'Brien

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Project Role

Tasks: Model Sensitivity (Lead), Metrics, Datasets
Metrics: North American Monsoon System

Contact

Email: taobrien@lbl.gov   |   Webpage: http://eesa.lbl.gov/profiles/travis-a-obrien/



 
 

Sara Rauscher

University of Delaware

Project Role

Tasks: Outreach, Metrics, Model Sensitivity, Impacts
Metrics: Aridity
Case Studies: Colorado Headwaters

Contact

Email: rauscher@udel.edu   |   Webpage: https://www.ceoe.udel.edu/our-people/profiles/rauscher



 
 

Kevin Reed

Stony Brook University

Project Role

Tasks: Metrics, Impacts
Metrics: Coastal Storms

Contact

Email: kevin.a.reed@stonybrook.edu   |   Webpage: http://you.stonybrook.edu/kareed/



 
 

William Riley

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Project Role

Tasks: Metrics, Software, Uncertainty

Contact

Email: wjriley@lbl.gov   |   Webpage: http://eesa.lbl.gov/profiles/william-j-riley/



 
 

Bruce Riordan

Climate Readiness Institute

Project Role

Tasks: Outreach

Contact

Email: bruce@climatereadinessinstitute.org



 
 

Chaopeng Shen

Pennsylvania State University

Project Role

Tasks: Metrics, Software, Datasets, Impacts
Metrics: Flood inundation and frequency
Case Studies: Susquehanna River

Contact

Email: cshen@engr.psu.edu   |   Webpage: http://water.engr.psu.edu/shen/



 
 

Dana Veron

University of Delaware

Project Role

Tasks: Impacts (lead), Metrics
Metrics: Sea Breeze

Contact

Email: dveron@udel.edu   |   Webpage: http://www.ceoe.udel.edu/our-people/profiles/dveron



 
 

Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang

Utah State University

Project Role

Tasks: Metrics
Metrics: Mesoscale Convective Systems

Contact

Email: simon.wang@usu.edu   |   Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/usu-climate-simon-wang/home



 
 

David Yates

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Project Role

Tasks: Outreach, Metrics, Software, Impacts
Metrics: Water Demand
Case Studies: Kissimmee River and South Florida

Contact

Email: yates@ucar.edu   |   Webpage: https://staff.ucar.edu/users/yates



 
 

Colin Zarzycki

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Project Role

Tasks: Metrics, Software, Datasets, Model Sensitivity
Metrics: Coastal Storms

Contact

Email: zarzycki@ucar.edu   |   Webpage: http://www.colinzarzycki.com/

Participants and Researchers
 

Neil Berg

Applied Climate Scientist, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Focus

Climate resilience and sustainability.

Contact

Email: nberg@ioes.ucla.edu



 
 

Xingying Huang

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Focus

Human-induced climate change and climate modeling focusing on large-scale dynamical processes, climate variability, and the hydrological cycle.

Contact

Email: xingyhuang@atmos.ucla.edu



 
 

Kripa Jagganathan

PhD Student, UC Berkeley / Graduate Student Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Research Focus

Climate change adaptation, the role of climate science in adaptation planning, and improving the usability of climate information for decision-makers.

Contact

Email: kripajagan@berkeley.edu



 
 

Alan Rhoades

Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Research Focus

Global and regional climate modeling, variable-resolution climate modeling, western USA hydroclimatology, and climate change in mountainous regions.

Contact

Email: amrhoades@ucdavis.edu



 
 

Abhishekh Srivastava

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Davis

Research Focus

Precipitation character and extremes, climate change, decadal predictability, advanced multivariate statistics, extreme statistics.

Contact

Email: asrivas@ucdavis.edu



 
 

Wen-Ping Tsai

Postdoctoral Researcher, Pennsylvania State University

Research Focus

Artificial neural networks, water resources management, optimization algorithm, climate change carrying into the multiscale hydrology and process.

Contact

Email: wxt42@psu.edu



 
 

Yun Xu

Project Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Research Focus

Climate data analysis, uncertainty quantification and propagation from atmospheric modeling to hydrological outcomes.

Contact

Email: yunxu@lbl.gov