My Research Interest
I am  interested in a number of issues  in Climate Variability and Change. I ask how a change in the conditions of the sea surface temperature of the Pacific would affect a place far away in Nigeria or Iowa some thousand miles away? Call it El-Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) or Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) or North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).  I am interested in the fact that it does indeed affect other places  (teleconnections) far and near, and causes climate variability on temporal and spatial scales in those places.  I also ask how climate variability caused by these modes affect  physical and human processes.  I ask how it changes  synoptic climate patterns, how it affects local climates, and how it influences vegetation changes.  I made up my mind to follow George (my mentor) and his friends to the mountains. Here is where I introduce the impact of variability of climate on heterogeneous  surfaces. I am talking about heterogeneous  geomorphic landscapes. I have not thought of human landscapes in New York, Lagos, New Delhi, London etc. Recently I started thinking of snow and avalanches, and Land Use Land Cover Change (LULCC). Some thoughts after the visit of Steve Walsh to Iowa.   I am presently looking at climate variability and change and  in the Rockies (The Glacier National Park  1 2). I am interested in issues of uncertainty and nonlinearity in Climate Variability in mountain regions. My academic adviser(s)/mentor(s) are Professor George P. Malanson and  David McGinnis.  I also work /volunteer for the WiderNet Project.

Patterns of Correlation between the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Climate of Glacier National Park, MT 

 Climate Variability in Mountain Regions: A Review        

AAG West Lakes Presentation      

 AAG New Orleans Poster     

Jos Weather

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