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Adam Showman's Students


Current graduate students:

Yuan Lian (LPL) is investigating the stability, vertical structure, and pumping mechanisms of jets on the giant planets.

Michael Bland (LPL) conducted numerical investigations of grooved-terrain formation and "tectonic resurfacing" on Ganymede and Enceladus; he is currently investigating Ganymede's evolution using coupled orbital-thermal models.

David Choi (LPL) is investigating the dynamics of Jupiter's Great Red Spot through data analysis and numerical modeling.

William Valine (atmospheric sciences) is currently studying the dynamics of waves in Neptune's atmosphere.

Previous students/postdocs and where they are now:

Kunio Sayanagi (Ph.D. student 2001-2007): The influence of giant convective outbursts (e.g., the quasiperiodic Great White Storms) on Saturn's equatorial jet and thermal structure; basic dynamics of jet formation, inverse cascades, and turbulence in 3D. Now a postdoctoral scholar working with Prof. Timothy Dowling at the University of Louisville.

Curtis Cooper (Ph.D. student 2000-2006), atmospheric dynamics, clouds, and chemistry on extrasolar giant planets and brown dwarfs. Now a NASA Postdoctoral Associate working with Prof. Alex Pavlov at the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the University of Arizona.

Giuseppe Mitri (postdoctoral scholar 2004-2006), tectonics and resurfacing of icy moons. Now a NASA Postdoctoral Associate working with Rosaly Lopes at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.


From left to right: Mike Bland, Curtis Cooper, Bill Valine, Adam Showman, Yuan Lian, Kunio Sayanagi, and Giuseppe Mitri.

Curtis during our trip to Ithaca, New York, June 2004. Yuan and Curtis fiddling with the camera.
Giuseppe practicing his DPS talk, Nov 2004.


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