Research

The fire and smoke modeling group focuses on improving understanding of how fires interact with the atmosphere creating their own weather and how wildfire smoke impacts air quality. The goal is to improve fire spread and air quality forecasting capabilities by integrating fire detections, weather observations, and fuel data.
Experimental fire modeling portal: http://demo.openwfm.org/sj/

The Cloud and Aerosol Group conducts research projects that involve aircraft-based observations, instrument calibrations, climate model simulations, satellite remote sensing and air pollution. Some of the ongoing projects include ice and mixed-phase cloud formation and interaction with aerosols, high-latitudinal cloud processes in the Arctic, Antarctica and Southern Ocean.




The Walsh Lab: Where Oceans, Education and Justice Connect
Exploring questions related to understanding climate changes and how we can support all communities in equitably adapting to and mitigating impacts of those changes in their everyday lives.
Lines of work include science education to support just learning and responses to climate change, and paleoclimatological studies in the ocean sciences.