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People of the Chu Research Group 2013
An Energetic Research Group on Boulder's Campus
Rear row from left: John Smith (PhD student), Cyrus Abari (Visiting PhD student), Ian Barry (BS/MS Student), Zhibin Yu (PhD student) and Weichun Fong (PhD Student)
Front row from left: Dr. Chu, Xian Lu (Postdoc Visiting Fellow), Cao Chen (PhD Student), Jian Zhao (PhD Student), and Wentao Huang (Res. Scientist II)
Chu group on spirals by the Old Main in October 2013
People of the Chu Research Group
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Senior Personnel
Prof. Xinzhao Chu (Xinzhao.Chu@Colorado.edu, 303-492-3280, CIRES 241)
Her research interests include the lidar technology and applications, the atmospheric and space sciences with observations and models, the atomic, molecular, and laser spectroscopy as well as photonics, optoelectronics, and quantum electronics. Prof. Chu receives research funding from the National Science Foundation and European Space Agency. She is a Fellow of CIRES that is funded by CU and NOAA, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. She teaches graduate classes of spectroscopy and lidar remote sensing, and undergraduate class ASEN 3300 "Electronics and Communications".
Dr. Wentao Huang (Wentao.Huang@Colorado.edu, 303-735-1466, CIRES 1B46)
Dr. Wentao Huang is a Research Scientist II at CIRES. His research interests are in the femtosecond laser spectroscopy, high resolution laser spectroscopy for lidar remote sensing, lidar technology and instrumentation, and atmospheric science in polar regions. He is a member of the lidar Consortium Technology Center (CTC). He is currently working on the Na double-edge magneto-optical filter (Na-DEMOF) project, the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) lidar project, CTC lidar technology development, Raman spectroscopy for Greenland lidar project, and polar atmospheric science study.
Dr. Michael Gausa (details coming soon)
Past Visitors
Dr. Adrian McDonald (adrian.mcdonald@canterbury.ac.nz), 303-492-8695
Adrian McDonald is a visiting sabattical fellow at CIRES between October and December 2009, who has a long term position at Canterbury University in New Zealand. During his sabattical stay he will be working with the Chu group on developing new measurements of atmospheric dynamics using the Chu group lidars and satellite instruments and developing future collaborations.
Graduate Students
Chihoko Yamashita (Chihoko.Yamashita@Colorado.edu), 303-735-1575, CIRES 1B49)
Ms. Chihoko Yamashita is a PhD student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. She started her study in Chu Research Group as a master student and defended her master thesis in April 2008 on characterization of stratospheric gravity waves at the South Pole and Rothera, Antarctica and correlation of stratospheric gravity waves to the polar mesospheric clouds with Fe Boltzmann lidar data. She is being supported by NCAR Newkirk Graduate Fellowship and is co-advised by Dr. Hanli Liu of NCAR to model gravity waves with an extended WRF and make comparisons to observations.
Bo Tan (Bo.Tan@Colorado.edu or botan.pku@gmail.com, 303-735-1575, CIRES 1B49)
Mr. Bo Tan is a new PhD student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences starting on June 1, 2008. He is learning and working on lidar technology, laser spectroscopy, and lidar and satellite data analyses for atmospheric science study.
Zhangjun Wang, (zhangjun.wang@colorado.edu), 303-492-6713, CIRES 1B52)
Mr Zhangjun Wang is a joint PhD student coming from Ocean Remots Sensing Institute, Ocean University of China funded by the Chinese government. He will study in CIRES and the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences from April 1, 2009 to September 30, 2010. He was working on the Low-altitude incoherent Doppler wind lidar based on Iodine filter in China. He is curently working on the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) lidar project and the McMurdo lidar project.
John Smith (john.anthony.smith@gmail.com, 303-735-1575, CIRES 1B49)
Mr. John Smith is currently a master student but will soon become a PhD student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. He started in summer 2007 and has developed a robust LabVIEW-based laser frequency stabilization system with phase sensitive detection servo loop for Doppler lidar application. He is developing beam optimization techniques for CTC and MRI. He is also working on Arecibo daytime K Doppler lidar project.
Zhibin Yu, (zhibintkm@gmail.com)
Mr Zhibin yu is a first year Ph.D. student working with Zinzhao. He graduated Summer 2009 from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and his major was space physics, and has broad interests in solar and terrestrial physics; the upper atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere. Zhibin now works with Xinzhao in the lidar field.
Weichun Fong,(weichun.fong@colorado.edu)
Mr. Fong has been a PhD student in the CU department of physics since Fall 2008. He joined Dr. Chu's group in Fall 2009. He is currently working on the STAR (Student Atmospheric Resonance) sodium lidar and the McMurdo lidar projects. He will be traveling to Antarctica with other group members this winter (2010) to set up the lidar system and take atmospheric data at the McMurdo station.
Chris (Cao) Chen, (cao.chen86@gmail.com)
Mr. Chen is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Chu Research Group. He received both his B.S. and M.S. in Space Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China. He joined CU in Fall 2010 as a new graduate student. His current research interests include the study of lidar technology and instrumentation, as well as revealing the source and propagation of gravity waves using ECMWF data.
Ian Dahlke, (idahlke@kdclan.com),
Mr Ian Dahlke became a new master's student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences in August 2009. He is working on constructing an Educational Sodium Doppler LIDAR system.
Brendan Roberts, (brendan.roberts@colorado.edu)
Mr Brendan Roberts received his undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder in May 2009. He is currently working on instrumentation design for the Na-DEMOF filter employed in LIDAR research for CIRES. He is a candidate for admissions to the Masters program at the University of Colorado, Boulder in Bioastronautics and Remote Sensing in the Aerospace Engineering department.
Collaborators
Close collaborators to the Chu research group include:
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