HyperFACETS Project Executive

Erwan Monier

University of California, Davis

Project Role

  • Storylines: Wildfire in the Western US and Integrated Hydroclimate of California

Contact

Paul Ullrich

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and University of California, Davis

Project Role

  • Storylines: North American Derechos, MCSs and Convective Winds

  • Integrated Efforts: Machine Learning Methods; Emerging Climate Hazards; Feature Detection and Characterization

Contact

Melissa Bukovsky

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Project Role

  • Storylines: Wildfire in the Western US; Urban Flooding in the Northeast Corridor

Contact

William Gutowski

Iowa State University

Project Role

  • Storylines: Drought and Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin

  • Integrated Efforts: Model and Dataset Evaluation; Feature Detection and Characterization

Contact

Andrew Jones

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Project Role

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Co-Lead

  • Storylines: Wildfire in the Western US; Integrated Hydroclimate in California; Drought and Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin; Urban Flooding in the Northeast Corridor

Contact

Lai-Yung (Ruby) Leung

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Project Role

  • Storylines: Wildfire in the Wester US (Lead); Integrated Hydroclimate in California; North American Derechos, MCSs and Convective Winds

  • Integrated Efforts: Machine Learning Methods; Emerging Climate Hazards; Storyline Test Beds

Contact

Sara Pryor

Cornell University

Project Role

  • Storylines: Winter Windstorms (Lead); Freezing Rain and Icing; North American Derechos, MCSs and Convective Winds

  • Integrated Efforts: Emerging Climate Hazards (Lead), Machine Learning Methods, Storyline Test Beds

Contact

HyperFACETS Project Management

Rebecca Barthelmie

Cornell University

Project Role

  • Storylines: Freezing Rain and Icing (Lead), Winter Windstorms

Contact

Smitha Buddhavarapu

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Project Role

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Co-Lead

Contact

Xiaodong Chen

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Research Focus

  • Storylines: Integrated Hydroclimate in California

  • Integrated Efforts: Machine Learning Methods

Contact

Yoshimitsu Chikamoto

Utah State University

Research Focus

  • Storylines: Wildfire in the Western US; Drought and Megadrought in the Upper Colorado

  • Integrated Efforts: Model and Dataset Evaluation

Contact

Naresh Devineni

City College of New York

Project Role

  • Storylines: Urban Flooding in the Northeast Corridor (Lead), Drought and Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin

Contact

Jiwen Fan

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Project Role

  • Storylines: North American Derechos, Mesoscale Convective Systems and Convective Winds (Lead); Wildfire in the Western US; Urban Flooding in the Northeast Corridor

Contact

Zhe Feng

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Project Role

  • Storylines: North American Derechos, MCSs and Convective Winds

Contact

Donovan Finn

Stony Brook University

Project Role

  • Storylines: Urban Flooding in the Northeast Corridor

Contact

Philip Gassman

Iowa State University

Project Role

  • Storylines: Drought and Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin

Contact

Naomi Goldenson

University of California, Los Angeles

  • Storylines: Wildfire in the Western US; Integrated Hydroclimate in California

  • Integrated Efforts: Model and Dataset Evaluation

Contact

Richard Grotjahn

University of California, Davis

Project Role

  • Storylines: Wildfire in the Western US; Integrated Hydroclimate in California

  • Integrated Efforts: Model and Dataset Evaluation

Contact

Alex Hall

University of California, Los Angeles

Project Role

  • Storylines: Integrated Hydroclimate in California (Lead); Wildfire in the Western US

  • Integrated Efforts: Model and Dataset Evaluation

Contact

Kripa Jagannathan

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Research Focus

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Co-Lead

  • Climate change adaptation

  • The role of climate science in adaptation planning

  • Improving the usability of climate information for decision-makers

Contact

Rachel McCrary

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Project Role

  • Storylines: Integrated Hydroclimate in California; Drought and Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin

Contact

Seth McGinnis

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Project Role

  • Storylines: Wildfire in the Western US; Integrated Hydroclimate in California; Drought and Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin

  • Integrated Efforts: Machine Learning Methods

Contact

Linda Mearns

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Project Role

  • Storylines: Wildfire in the Western US; Integrated Hydroclimate in California; Drought and Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin

Contact

Yun Qian

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Project Role

  • Storylines: Wildfire in the Western US; Urban Flooding in the Northeast Corridor; Winter Windstorms; North American Derechos, MCSs and Convective Winds

Contact

Stefan Rahimi-Esfarjani

University of California, Los Angeles

Project Role

  • Storylines: Wildfire in the Western US; Integrated Hydroclimate in California

  • Integrated Efforts: Model and Dataset Evaluation

Contact

Kevin Reed

Stony Brook University

Project Role

  • Storylines: Worst-Case Hurricane Tracks (Lead); Urban Flooding in the Northeast Corridor; Compounding Effects from Tropical Cyclones

  • Integrated Efforts: Storyline Test Beds; Feature Detection and Characterization

Contact

Alan Rhoades

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Project Role

  • Storylines: Integrated Hydroclimate in California; Drought and Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin

  • Integrated Efforts: Storyline Test Beds; Feature Detection and Characterization

Contact

Chaopeng Shen

Pennsylvania State University

Project Role

  • Storylines: Drought and Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin; Compounding Effects from Tropical Cyclones

  • Integrated Efforts: Machine Learning Methods (Lead)

Contact

Abhishekh Srivastava

University of California, Davis

Research Focus

  • Storylines: Wildfire in the Western US; Integrated Hydroclimate in California

  • Integrated Efforts: Model and Dataset Evaluation

Contact

Sally Wang

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Project Role

  • Storylines: Wildfire in the Western US

  • Integrated Efforts: Machine Learning Methods

Contact

Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang

Utah State University

Project Role

  • Storylines: Drought and Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin (Lead); Wildfire in the Western US

  • Integrated Efforts: Storyline Test Beds

Contact

David Yates

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Project Role

  • Storylines: Integrated Hydroclimate in California; Drought and Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin

  • Integrated Efforts: Water Resource and Electric System Modeling (Lead)

Contact

Colin Zarzycki

Pennsylvania State University

Project Role

  • Storylines: Compounding Effects from Tropical Cyclones (Lead); Winter Windstorms; Freezing Rain and Icing; Worst-Case Hurricane Tracks

  • Integrated Efforts: Storyline Test Beds; Feature Detection and Characterization

Contact

HyperFACETS Participants and Researchers

Brandon Fisel

Postdoctoral Researcher, Iowa State University

Research Focus

  • Regional climate modeling, precipitation, extreme events, global change

Contact

Binod Pokharel

Postdoctoral Researcher, Utah State University

Research Focus

  • Large-scale drivers of mesoscale convective systems

Contact

Yalan Song

Postdoctoral Researcher, Pennsylvania State University

Research Focus

  • Deep learning neural networks, water resources management, and hydrology

Contact

HyperFACETS Practitioners and Stakeholders

James Eklund

CEO, Eklund Hanlon, LLC

Interests

  • Science-based decision-making and climate-change-conscious water resources management.

John W. Balay

Manager, Planning & Operations / Susquehanna River Basin Commission

Interests

  • Water resources management; Sustainable water use and availability; Flood and drought resiliency

Obeysekera Jayantha

Director & Research Professor, Sea Level Solutions Center, Institute of Environment, Florida International University

Interests

  • Fidelity of climate models particularly for extremes; Co-production; Projections of and adaptation to sea level rise; Impacts of climate change on water resource management

Laurna Kaatz

Climate Program, Denver Water

Interests

  • Climate adaptation in practice, forwarding science to address practical needs

Gary Shenk

Hydrologist, US Geological Survey, Virginia/West Virginia Water Science Center, Chesapeake Bay Program Office

Interests

  • Nutrient and sediment transport; climate change effects on estuaries

Ana Carolina Coelho Maran

Chief of District Resiliency, South Florida Water Management District

Interests

  • Water resources management resiliency; Climate change adaptation; Adopting future climate conditions into planning and H&H modeling efforts; Flooding and sea level rise resiliency

Taylor Winchell

Water Resource Engineer, Denver Water

Interests

  • Climate change adaptation; planning for uncertainty; building relationships between resource managers and academic researchers