Baylor Fox-Kemper (CV)

In January, 2013, I joined what is now the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. I work mostly within the Climate and Environment Group. I am also an elected fellow of the Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES) and collaborate with the Fluids at Brown program, the Initiative for Sustainable Energy, and the Brown Theoretical Physics Center.

From 2007-2012, I was a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. I taught in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and was an affiliate of the Department of Applied Mathematics. Before Boulder, I worked with Raffaele Ferrari at MIT and Geoff Vallis at Princeton and GFDL. My Ph.D. is from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography working with Paola Rizzoli (at MIT) and Joe Pedlosky (at WHOI). In my pre-oceanographic career, I trained in physics at Reed with Nick Wheeler and at Brandeis with X.-J. Wang.
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Researchers and Visitors

Postdoctoral Researcher Advice

Adam Ayouche

Adam is a postdoc working primarily on the DoE Offshore Wind Project who started in spring of 2024. Adam received his Ph.D. in oceanography working at IFREMER with Xavier Carton. Adam is working with Large Eddy Simulations of the marine atmospheric boundary layer.

Samuel D. Brenner

Sam is a postdoc working primarily on the SASIP project who started in summer of 2022. Sam received his Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington working with Luc Rainville and Jim Thomson. Sam works with observations and theory on air-sea-ice transfers.

Paul Hall

Paul is a senior research software engineer at Brown. He is collaborating with the group on programming issues relating to CESM and WaveWatch-III. Before joining Brown, he got his PhD at URI with Chris Kincaid and worked at Harvard and Boston University.

Momme Hell

Momme is a postdoc working primarily on the SASIP project since 2021. He is working on predicting and (remotely) observing waves and their interactions with sea ice. Before joining Brown, he got his PhD at UCSD/Scripps working with Arthur "Art" Miller, Sarah Gille, and Bruce Cornuelle, followed by a brief postdoc working with Nick Lutsko. Momme is now an NCAR ASP postdoc, but continues collaborating on the PiClES project to build a high-efficency climate wave model.

Graduate Students

Graduate Student Research Advice

Joel Feske

Joel is a DEEPS PhD student who began in September, 2020. He is working on tensors and eddy parameterizations. Joel has a background in physics from Bowdoin and a masters of mechanical engineering focused on the modeling and control of dynamical systems from Carnegie Mellon. Some of his past projects are here.

John Nicklas

John began working in the group as a PLME student interested in research on avoiding the worst aspects of climate change. He worked on a geoengineering climate modeling project, and has at least one patent in green tech. John is the 2020 recipient of both the Maria L. Caleel Memorial Award for Academic Excellence in biology and the Jerome L Stein Memorial Award for Undergraduate Excellence in applied mathematics. John successfully defended his applied math/biology honors thesis on 1 May, 2020! John is now alternately enrolled in the Alpert Medical School for an M.D. and DEEPS for a Ph.D. and presenlty is working on two papers based on his undergraduate thesis.

Anna Lo Piccolo

Anna joined the group in Fall 2019 as a visitor from U. Bologna where she is working toward her masters degree under the supervision of Nadia Pinardi. At Brown she has been working together with Baylor and Chris on sea ice-ocean interactions at ice edges and leads and their parameterization.

Undergraduate Researchers and Teaching Fellows

Undergraduate Student Research Advice

Jasper Chen

Jasper is an Applied Math concentrator. Jasper started working with Baylor on a senior thesis project related to information theory metrics of the distance between climate models and whether this reduces the signal-to-noise paradox.

Lorenzo Davidson

Lorenzo started collaborating in the group in Fall 2021 as a DEEPS sophomore. He is a Spring 2022 UTRA student working on satellite data in Narragansett Bay. He continued this work as a 2022 SURF summer student. Lorenzo then worked at NOAA as a Hollings Fellow, where he got interested in whales! Lorenzo is working on a senior thesis related to modeling whale migration under climate change.

Grant Landon

Grant is an Applied Math-Computer Science concentrator. Grant started working with us just before the summer of 2023. That summer he was working on a project around tipping points and machine learning in a NASA fellowship. In Fall 2023, he returned to Brown to an UTRA project and a senior thesis to extend this work.

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Interested in joining?

Potential or current graduate students may contact Baylor with questions. They should check out graduate student fellowships, too: NSF, NSF Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, NASA (GSRP and NESSF), Ford Foundation, AMS, DOD NDSEG, DOD SMART, DOE SCGF, ASEE, DOE (GREF, CSGF, and HPCSF), Hertz, NRC RAP, NPSC, & NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium, & Foster scholars.

Undergraduates interested in research projects can also contact Baylor. Funding may be available through an IBES fellowship, a leadership alliance fellowship (for students outside of Brown), Voss fellowship, UTRA, an NSF REU, AMS, NOAA Hollings (apply while a sophomore), or DOD SMART fellowship. Summer research opportunites include NREIP.

Postdoctoral investigators interested in research projects can also contact Baylor. Funding may be available through a NSF, NSF SEES, NOAA, OCE-PRF, NRC RAP, Ford Foundation, L'Oreal, or IBES fellowship.

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Collaborators

One of the many musical happenings by the group.