Donald Schmit
Don Schmit graduated with a Ph.D. in Astrophysics and Planetary Science from the University of Colorado in 2012. He has previously worked at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophyics Laboratory, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. His background is in solar imaging and spectroscopy, working in the optical, ultraviolet, and extreme ultraviolet domains.
Melissa Breeden
Dr. Breeden received her B.S. (2013) and Ph.D. (2018) in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied the dynamics of North Pacific blocking onset using piecewise tendency diagnosis and linear inverse modeling. She was awarded the NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2019, where she studied the impact of climate processes on stratosphere-to-troposphere ozone transport over North America with Dr. Amy Butler and Dr. Karen Rosenlof in the NOAA Chemical Sciences Division.
Timothy Smith
Before joining PSL, I obtained my Ph.D. in Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics from the Oden Institute at UT Austin. My graduate work focused on quantifying uncertainties that are inherent to ocean models, and I implemented a generic, adjoint-based framework to propagate these uncertainties onto predictions from the MIT general circulation model.
