RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

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I am a research scientist at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratories (Physical Sciences Laboratory, PSL) in Boulder, Colorado. I am a member of PSL’s Attribution and Predictability Assessments Team which seeks to understand the physical factors that cause observed regional and seasonal climate trends, and high-impact weather and climate events. We place a special emphasis on understanding the large-scale drivers that influence local and regional extreme events such as floods, droughts, and heat waves.

Noor Johnson is a research scientist at NSIDC, where she leads several international networks that support community-driven research on environmental change, Indigeous Knowledge documentation and co-production of knowledge, and food security and sovereignty. As PI and lead for the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA), she provides data management and user support to Arctic Indigenous communities and researchers spearheading research projects on environmental change, cultural knowledge transmission, and language preservation.

Dr. Twila Moon is Deputy Lead Scientist and Science Communication Liaison at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, part of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), a global leader in Earth science. Dr. Moon is a world-renowned scientist specializing in the connections across ice, climate, ocean, and ecosystem – and bringing climate science insights to decision makers and business leaders. Her discovery science focuses on the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Arctic.

Alexandra Padilla (she/her/ella) is a Research Associate and Program Manager for FieldSafe at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Alexandra spent her childhood and adolescent years in Maryland and moved to Puerto Rico, respectively. She earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering with a minor in applied mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez. During this period, she became interested in applying her skills in environmental-related sciences and went on to complete a Ph.D.

I have diverse research experience and interests, including space weather, the solar wind, coronal mass ejections, the solar cycle, solar and stellar internal dynamics, dynamo theory, magnetohydrodynamics, data assimilation, numerical methods, high-performance computing, machine learning, and public outreach.  Born and raised in suburban Detroit, I went to college in Michigan's Upper Penninsula.  I fell in love with the west after a few student internships at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.  That experience motivated me to come to the University of Colorado in B

Dr.  Bianca Adler is a Research Scientist CIRES at the University of Colorado Boulder affiliated with NOAA's Physical Sciences Laboratory. Her research focus lies on the physical processes in the boundary layer over different types of surfaces, such as mountainous terrain. She is using meteorological observations along with numerical simulations to advance the understanding of boundary layer processes. Dr.