People
Jason E. Smerdon [CV and 2013 Faculty Profile]
Lamont Research Professor
Lamont-Doherty Earth Obseratory
Address: 61 Route 9W
P.O. Box 100
Palisades, NY 10964
Office: Oceanography 205D
Phone: (845) 365-8493
Email: jsmerdon@ldeo.columbia.edu
Current Members
Graduate Student
Co-Director, Undergraduate Program in
Sustainable Development
Office: Hogan Hall B-102
Phone: (212) 854-7529
Past Members
Graduate Students
Sloan Coats - Graduate Student (PhD '15, Columbia University)
Thesis: Paleoclimate Model-Data Comparisons of Hydroclimate over North America with a Focus on Megadroughts
Now a postdoctoral fellow in the Advanced Study Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research
Undergraduate Students
Ryan Creedon - 2014 Lamont Summer Intern (PSU '16)
Now a graduate student in Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington
Meredith Fish - 2014 Lamont Summer Intern (PSU '15)
Now a graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Stephanie Goldstein - 2014 Lamont Summer Intern (BC '15)
Seung Hun Baek - 2014 Senior Thesis (CC '14)
Now a graduate student in the Dept. of Environmental Sciences at Columbia University
Dan Amrhein - 2009-10 Research Assistant (CC '09)
Now a PhD Candidate in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program
Diana Chang - 2007 Hughes Science Pipeline Intern and 2008 Senior Thesis (BC '08)
2014 PhD: Tri-Institutional Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine at Cornell University
Now an Assoicate Scientist of Bioinformatics at Genentech
A.J. Carver - 2006 NOAA Hollings Undergraduate Summer Intern (UW-Madison, '07)
Affiliated Colleagues
Our work at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and affiliated EI units is inherently interdisciplinary. Our group actively collaborates with many researchers across the Lamont and Columbia campuses including the following closely affiliated colleagues.
Are you interested in joining our group?
Our group regularly has opportunities for research positions at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels. Undergraduate opportunites are available through the Lamont Summer Internship and the EI Research Assistantship programs. We accept graduate students through the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (apply here). Postdoctoral opportunties are available through the Lamont Postdoctoral Fellowship and the EI Postdoctoral Fellowship programs. Our group and the OCP Division also regularly host NOAA and NSF Postdoctoral Fellows. Contact Jason Smerdon if you have questions about applying for one of these specific programs or would like to inquire generally about our current research opportunties.
EI Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2017)
Project: Near-term climate uncertainty, decision-making, and the fate of snow in a warming world
(Co-Advisors: Radley Horton and Richard Seager)
NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2017)
Project: Reconstructing pre-industrial climate change and crop yields over the past millennium
Currently Affiliated Students
Colin Raymond - OCP Graduate Student (Advisory Committee)
Bor-Ting Jong - OCP Graduate Student (Advisory Committee)
Yuxin Zhou - Geochem Graduate Student (Advisory Committee)
