The Turner Group

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Prospective graduate students should refer to my Frequently Asked Questions and apply to UW through the Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science. Prospective postdocs should also consider applying for fellowships such as the CICOES postdoc program at UW, the NOAA Climate & Global Change postdoc, various NSF postdocs, and the Schmidt Science Fellows. Feel free to contact me for more information.

Alex Turner
Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science

Alex is an Assistant Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Science at the University of Washington. Previously, he was a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He completed his PhD in 2017 in Atmospheric Chemistry at Harvard University and his BS in 2012 in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado. His research combines satellite remote sensing, numerical modeling, and Bayesian inference to improve our understanding of atmospheric chemistry and the carbon cycle.

Alex was born in Cambridge, MA and grew up in Boulder, CO. Growing up in Boulder helped foster his love of the environment and the outdoors. During the summer he spends his free time trail running, rock climbing, and backpacking. In the winter, he enjoys skiing and telemarking.

Email: turneraj (at) uw (dot) edu
Mail: 706 ATG Building, Box 351640
CV and Google Scholar

Rae Boccamazzo
Research Coordinator

Project manager for the FETCH₄ project.

• Email: raegun (at) uw (dot) edu

Nikhil Dadheech
Graduate student, NASA FINESST fellow

Research interests: atmospheric methane and machine learning.

• Email: nd349 (at) uw (dot) edu
• Website

Iana Ferguson
Graduate student (co-advised with Abby Swann), PCC fellow

Research interests: tipping points, tropical wetlands, and atmospheric methane.

• Email: iyfr (at) uw (dot) edu
• Website

Eliot Kim
Graduate student

Research interests: machine learning, atmospheric chemistry modeling, and chemistry-climate interactions.

• Email: ejkim1 (at) uw (dot) edu
• Google Scholar

Eric Mei
Graduate student (co-advised with Greg Hakim)

Research interests: atmospheric methane, chemistry-climate interactions, and machine learning.

• Email: emei (at) uw (dot) edu
• Website
• Google Scholar

James Yoon
Graduate student (co-advised with Joel Thornton)

Research interests: isoprene, oxidative capacity of the troposphere, and solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence.

• Email: jyyoon (at) uw (dot) edu
• Website

Alyssa Tou
Undergraduate student

Research interests: remote sensing of nitrous oxide.

• Email: amtou (at) uw (dot) edu

Coco Lipe
Undergraduate student (co-advised with Becky Alexander)

Research interests: Earth's energy budget, atmospheric chemistry, and climate feedbacks.

• Email: clipe2 (at) uw (dot) edu

Laura Pong
Undergraduate student (co-advised with Abby Swann)

Research interests: heatwaves, remote sensing, and applied mathematics.

• Email: pongl (at) uw (dot) edu

Lauren Yarrington
Undergraduate student

Research interests: machine learning and atmospheric science.

• Email: lyarri (at) uw (dot) edu

Alumni

Postdocs:

• Tai-Long He, 2022-2024 postdoc. Next position: postdoc/research associate at Harvard University.

Grad students:

• Johannes Gensheimer, 2019-2021 research assistant, MS 2021 (at TUM). Next position: PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry.

Undergrads:

• Max Taniguichi-King, 2024 summer research intern, BS 2025 (at UC Berkeley).
• Simon Zhang, 2022-2023 undergrad research assistant, BS 2023 in applied mathematics. Next position: PhD student at U. Minnesota.
• Ryan Boyd, 2021-2023 undergrad research assistant, BS 2023 in atmospheric science. Next position: PhD student at Princeton.