A warm welcome to Dr. Charles Jones, who has joined UCSB Geography faculty as an Associate Professor. His appointment officially begins on July 1. 2013, and he will provide welcome support in the field of climate, particularly insofar as the recent retirement of Catherine Gautier and Joel Michaelsen has left that field of UCSB Geography expertise under-represented.
Dr. Charles Jones received a BS degree in Meteorology from the University of Sao Paulo Brazil. He then moved to the United States to study at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and received a MS degree from the Department of Meteorology. His research thesis focused on an observational analysis of low-frequency variations in the South American monsoon. Dr. Jones received a PhD degree from the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources at the University of California, Davis. His PhD thesis investigated the mechanisms of the Madden-Julian Oscillation. Dr. Jones’ research focuses on a broad range of weather and climate processes, with an emphasis on precipitation variability, extreme events, weather forecasts, predictability studies, regional modeling, monsoon systems, and climate change.
Dr. Jones, along with Professor Leila Carvalho, runs the UCSB Climate Variations and Change (CLIVAC) research group. CLIVAC is dedicated to further understanding the Earth’s present and future climates on different temporal and spatial scales. With this goal in mind, CLIVAC has been developing observational and modeling analyses in atmospheric sciences.
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