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While there, she developed a data assimilation scheme for snow cover. This led to submitting a paper, on which she is lead author, to Mon. Wea. Rev., as well as a proposal to NASA Hdqts. for the further development of these activities. You may recall her visit to UCLA to give us a preview of this work and introduce us to Machiel van der Stelt, now her husband.
Recently, Chaojiao moved to the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), which resulted from the merger of the Data Asimilation Office (DAO) and the NASA Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Program (NSIPP). Her new responsibilities include the development of a practical data assimilation scheme for GMAO's ocean model, which will allow real-time seasonal-to-interannual predictions, in parallel with the development of such a scheme for its atmospheric model.
Somehow, Chaojiao managed to combine these fairly impressive achievements with an even more impressive one: giving birth to baby Daniel van der Stelt on Nov. 9, 2002.
After the birth of Karima, Laxmi moved to Alberta to raise the baby with her husband, Naveed Khaliq, a civil engineer, who had stable employment there. But private-sector jobs in Calgary did not prove all that satisfactory and so they all moved to Montreal, where Laxmi started a post-doc in hydrology with Rene Laprise at the Universite de Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), in May 2002. This also allowed her to resume work on our paper concerning seasonal wind-stress forcing in the double-gyre problem.
With all these irons in the fire, Laxmi took a few weeks off to give birth to Awais, on June 29, 2003. Karima is very excited about her brother, and we're sure you will be, too, when you see the pix!
Zhigang ("Dave") got a B. Sc. in Physics from Peking University ("Bei-da") in 1992 and was a member of our group from Sept. 1993 till August 1996. For the latter part of that period, he worked on periodic forcing in the double-gyre problem (see also news of Laxmi above). Zhigang then moved to the Computer Science Dept. at UCLA, where he graduated with a Ph. D. in December 2000 (http://cadlab.cs.ucla.edu/~pan). After almost three years at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a Research Staff Member, Zhigang just moved, as an Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering (VLSI/CAD) in the ECE Dept., to the University of Texas at Austin.
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Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics |
University of California Los Angeles |
