The Oceans and Climate Lab is excited to welcome two new postdocs to the team in Fall 2022. (Soon-to-be) Dr. Ulla Heede will join the Oceans and Climate Lab as a ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Postdoctoral Fellow. Ulla is completing her Ph.D. in ; her research is on tropical climate dynamics, especially toward understanding how the tropical Pacific coupled ocean-atmosphere system responds to anthropogenic radiative forcing. Ulla completed her undergraduate education at the (UK). As a graduate student at Yale, her research combining satellites and climate models was through the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship. While at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, Ulla plans to isolate the effects of enhanced eastern Pacific warming on vegetation through the land component of global climate climate models, and bring this work into a societal context through collaboration with adaptation and mitigation experts.
In addition, (soon-to-be) Dr. Will Rush will join the Oceans and Climate Lab as a Postdoctoral Research Associate through a from the NSF Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change () program. Will is currently completing his Ph.D. in , where his research is focused on the interface between climate model analysis and paleoclimate proxy interpretation, primarily focused on hydroclimatic changes. This fall, Will will join a collaborative team of researchers at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, Yale (), WHOI (), and NOAA () to investigate the influence of ice sheets and ocean-atmosphere interaction on the hydroclimate of the western United States during the Last Glacial Maximum, primarily through the use of coupled climate model simulations.