Faculty
Research Professor
David Bullock Harris Professor of Geosciences
Atmospheric dynamics, stratospheric ozone, climate dynamics, satellite meteorology
Professor
Director, Center for Atmospheric Chemistry and the Environment
Chemical composition and phase of atmospheric aerosols, ice nucleation, cloud formation, climate and air pollution, laboratory and field measurements, lidar observations, instrument development
Instructional Professor
Meteorology forecasting and services, meteorological and oceanographic instrumentation
Professor
Director, Texas Center for Climate Studies
Climate change, remote sensing, climate change policy
Associate Professor
Mesoscale atmospheric dynamics, topographically forced waves and wakes, numerical modeling and scientific computation
Professor
Hurricanes, moist convection, large-scale dynamics, climate dynamics, climate variability, past climates
Assistant Professor
Director of the Houston Lightning Mapping Array (HLMA) Network
Aerosol-cloud Interactions, Aerosol Chemistry, Biomass Burning Smoke, Atmospheric Electricity
Regents Professor
Texas State Climatologist; Director, Southern Regional Climate Center
Applied Climatology, Extreme Rainfall, Drought Monitoring, Local Circulations
Associate Professor
Midlatitude convective storms, particularly supercell dynamics, storm/environment interactions, and probabilistic severe weather forecasting
Associate Professor, Graduate Committee Chair
Satellite remote sensing of clouds and precipitation, cloud radiative effects, global water and energy budget
Professor
Department Head
Variability and predictability of climate on seasonal to millennial timescales, coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction, large-scale dynamics of the atmosphere and the oceans
Associate Professor
Trace gas biogeochemistry, air pollution, surface-atmosphere exchange
Professor
E. D. Brockett Professorship in Geosciences
Tropical meteorology, radar meteorology, mesoscale-climate interactions
Professor
Atmospheric dynamics, predictability, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, machine learning
Associate Professor
Climate, hydroclimate, radiative effects of aerosols and pollutants
University Distinguished Professor and David Bullock Harris Chair in Geosciences
Senior Associate Dean for Research
Atmospheric radiative transfer, remote sensing, numerical modeling of the optical properties of nonspherical particles and its applications
University Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Sciences
Harold J. Haynes Chair in Geosciences
Kinetics and mechanisms of gas-phase and heterogeneous reactions, lab studies of properties of atmospheric aerosols, atmospheric measurements of trace gas species and aerosols, assessment of aerosol-cloud interaction, lightning chemistry
Professor
Reta A. Haynes Chair in Geosciences
Aerosols, cloud microphysics, aerosol-cloud interactions, climate model development, and climate modeling
Professor
Louis & Elizabeth Scherck Chair in Oceanography
Assistant Professor
Atmospheric chemistry, chemical reactions of aerosols, aerosol-climate interactions, aerosol mixing state, phase state, and morphology, secondary organic aerosols, environmental chamber and mass spectrometry
Instructional Assistant Professor
Operational Forecasting; Numerical Weather Prediction; Extreme Rainfall Processes; Mesoscale Convective Systems; Concurrent, Collocated Overlapping Hazards; and Social Aspects of Warning Communication
Research Assistant Professor
Regional Climatologist, Southern Regional Climate Center