ALEXANDER (SASHA) GERSHUNOV
| PERSONAL INFORMATION
Climate Research Division
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093 - 0224
Tel: (858) 534 - 8418
Fax: (858) 534 - 8561
Email: sasha@ucsd.edu
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CURRICULUM VITAE
RESEARCH INTERESTS
| Global and regional climate variability on daily to multi-century time scales, hydroclimatology, coupled ocean-land-atmosphere dynamics, teleconnections, long-range seasonal predictability and prediction of daily weather statistics, extreme events, climate model validation and statistical correction, applications of climate forecasts, climate and wildfire, climatic history and future change, climate-society interactions
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EDUCATION
| Ph.D. (1996)
| University of California, Santa Barbara, Geography Department.
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| M. S. (1989)
| University of California, Santa Barbara, Statistics and Applied Probability Department.
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| B. S. (1986)
| University of California, Irvine, Mathematics Department.
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Associate Research Scientist. April 2007 - Present.
Climate Research Division and Physical Oceanography Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO).
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Associate Project Scientist. May 2006 - March 2007.
Climate Research Division, SIO.
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Assistant Project Scientist. 2000 - 2006.
Climate Research Division, SIO.
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Visiting Researcher. June - August 2004.
Centre National de Recherches Meteorologies (CNRM), Meteo - France, Toulouse, France.
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Visiting Researcher. October 2002 - January 2003 and December 2001 - March 2002.
Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (LMD) du SNRS, Paliseau, France.
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Postgraduate Research Meteorologist. 1996 - 2000.
Climate Research Division, SIO.
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NASA Global Change Research Fellow. 1992 - 1995.
Geography Department, UCSB.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Visiting Professor. March - June 2006.
Departamento de Fisica, Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Spain. Course title: Climate variability, change and prediction.
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Rotary Foundation University Teacher at the Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada (CICESE). Spring 2004.
Subject: Climatic variability and predictability. Graduate seminar.
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- Lecturer in the Geography Department, UCSB:
- Fall 1995. Subject: Climatic Change.
Upper division undergraduate course (100 students)
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- Spring 1996. Subject: Tropical Meteorology.
Upper division undergraduate course (87 students)
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...and farmer brown says, "What's time to a pig?"
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TALENTS + RECOGNITIONS
- Memberships in Professional Organizations:
- American Meteorological Society
- American Geophysical Union
- International Association of Hydrological Sciences
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- Awards:
- NASA Global Change Research Fellow, 1992-1995
- Korein Foundation Research Grants, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
- Rotary Foundation International Teaching Grant, 2004
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- Languages:
- English (fluent), Russian (native), French (fluent), Spanish (workable)
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