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Principal Investigator

Kathleen Schiro

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Environmental Sciences

Education: Ph.D. and M.S., Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles; B.A., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

Email: kschiro@virginia.edu

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Postdoctoral Scholars

Aashutosh Aryal

Aashutosh is a new postdoc jointly advised by Julie Quinn (CEE) working as an Environmental Institute Climate Fellow. He completed his PhD in Civil Engineering at UVA in 2025, an MSc in Hydroinformatics and Water Management (EuroAquae+) at Côte d’Azur University, France, in 2019, and a BE in Civil Engineering (specializing in Hydropower) at Kathmandu University, Nepal, in 2015. He has over five years of professional experience as a civil (water resources) engineer, data analyst, and consultant on multi-disciplinary international engineering projects. Aashutosh’s PhD research focused on integrating remotely sensed datasets to investigate hydrological processes and hydroclimatic extreme risks in data-scarce and vulnerable regions of Asia. His post-doctoral research aims to develop a novel framework for non-stationary frequency analysis of compound flooding in urban coastal areas.

Email: qeg4ne@virginia.edu

Graduate Students

Sayali Kulkarni

Sayali joined the department in Fall 2021. Her work examines environmental controls on mesoscale convective system lifecycles, cold pools, and convective organization/aggregation.

Email: sayalirk@email.virginia.edu


Rebecca Weinstein

Rebecca joined the department as a PhD student in Fall 2023. Rebecca is a recent graduate of Virginia Tech. She has been studying environmental controls on deep convection in the southern Great Plains and southeastern US using convective tracking datasets, DOE ARM field site data, and reanalysis.

Email: jca4zw@virginia.edu

Jun-Jie Chang

Jun-Jie joined the department as a PhD student in Fall 2023. Jun-Jie is a recent graduate of the National Taiwan University and is working on a project studying regional variability in low cloud climatology, co-advised by Prof. Kevin Grise.

Email: ucp3yt@virginia.edu

Jeremy Corner

Jeremy joined the department as a PhD student in Fall 2024. Jeremy is a recent MS graduate of Northern Illinois University and is working on a project using convolutional neural networks to model and understand using XAI techniques regional precipitation variability and extremes in the United States using CESM Large Ensemble output. He is co-advised by Prof. Antonios Mamalakis (EVSC/SDS).

Email: ucp3yt@virginia.edu


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