Environmental Science
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
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The Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) department seeks to understand and predict processes of the Earth system, atmosphere, and biosphere.
Our researchers apply novel tools to investigate the hydro-biogeochemical and atmospheric processes that drive variability in the function of Earth’s biosphere, atmosphere, and the coupled system. EVS develops and uses numerical models to advance regional and global Earth system projections and leverages resources available at the laboratory to conduct meteorological observations, analyze active and passive remote sensing of atmospheric conditions, quantify land-atmosphere fluxes of energy and water, and investigate ecosystem carbon cycling and soil biogeochemistry. We develop process-scale knowledge of planetary boundary layer dynamics; atmospheric chemistry; aerosol lifecycles and radiation balance; ecosystem exchanges of energy, water, and carbon; ecosystem biogeochemical cycles; and soil responses to environmental change.
Department Staff
Connor Aghili
Computational Specialist
Maria P. Cadeddu
Principal Atmospheric Research Engineer
Beth A. Drewniak
Earth Scientist
Dimitrios Fytanidis
Computational Earth Scientist
Brandi L Gamelin
Assistant Research Project Manager
Virendra P. Ghate
Principal Atmospheric Scientist
Robert L. Jacob
Earth Scientist
Julie Dierstein Jastrow
Senior Scientist/Argonne Distinguished Fellow
Chunyong Jung
Assistant Atmospheric Scientist
Jenni Kyrouac
Atmospheric Research Engineer
Roser Matamala
Group Leader/Senior Scientist
Joshua O Minai
Assistant Environmental Scientist
Ben Moore-Maley
Postdoctoral Appointee - Coastal-urban Flooding
Paytsar Muradyan
Atmospheric Scientist
William Pringle
Coastal Ocean & Earth Scientist
Michael P Ricketts
Assistant Terrestrial Ecologist
Yunpeng Shan
Assistant Research Scientist
Ryan Sullivan
Atmospheric Scientist
Jiali Wang
Principal Atmospheric & Earth Scientist
Recent Publications
Atmospheric Research
- Fierce, L., Y. Li, Y. Feng, N. Riemer, N. A. J. Schutgens, A. C. Aiken, M. K. Dubey, P.-L. Ma, and D. Wuebbles (2025): “Constraining black carbon aging in global models to reflect timescales for internal mixing,” Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 17, e2024MS004471. DOI: 10.1029/2024MS004471
- Reed, D. E., et al. (incl. Cook, Matamala, and Sullivan) (2025). “Network of networks: Time series clustering of AmeriFlux sites.” Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 372, 110686. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110686
- Liu, Z., Ichii, K., Yamamoto, Y., Ueyama, M., Kobayashi, H., Hiyama, T., Kotani, A., Maximov, T., Sullivan, R. C. and Biraud, S. (2025). “Can Sub-daily LST Be Constructed in High-latitude Regions Using Polar Orbiting Satellites?” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2025.3546797
Biological and Environmental System Science
- Minai, J.O., J.D. Jastrow, R. Matamala, C.L. Ping, G.J. Michaelson, and N.A. Jelinski. 2025. “Quantifying spatial and vertical variations in soil C:N relationships in permafrost-affected landscapes.” Geoderma, 460, 117418. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117418
- Waldrop, M.P., J.G. Ernakovich, T.A. Vishnivetskaya, S.R. Schaefer, R. Mackelprang, … M.P. Ricketts, … et al. 2025. “Microbial ecology of permafrost soils: Populations, processes, and perspectives.” Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 36, 245-258. DOI: 10.1002/ppp.2264
- VanWallendael, A., C. Wijewardana, J. Bonnette, L. Vormwald, F.B. Fritschi, … J.D. Jastrow, … et al. 2025. “Local adaptation of both plant and pathogen: An arms-race compromise in switchgrass rust.” New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.70313
- Reed, D.A., Chu, H., Petter, B.G…, Matamala, R., … et al. 2025. “Network of Networks: Time-Series Clustering of AmeriFlux Sites.” Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 372, 110686. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110686
- De Oliveira, E.D., Glass, N., Yun, K., Habermann, E., Matamala, R., Zare, A., Kim, S.H., Gonzalez-Meler, M. 2025. “Root architectural plasticity optimizes nutrient acquisition in switchgrass under variable phosphorus forms.” Plant and Soil. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-024-07178-5
- Liu, J., Kyle, C., Wang, J. Kotamarthi, R., Koval, W., Dukic V., Dwyer, D., “Climate change drives reduced biocontrol of the invasive spongy moth.” Nat. Clim. Chang. 15, 210–217 (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41558-024-02204-x
Energy and Earth System Modeling
- Wu, M., Wang, H., Lu, Z., Liu, X., Bian, H., Cohen, D., Feng, Y., Chin, M., Hauglustaine, D. A., Karydis, V. A., Lund, M. T., Myhre, G., Pozzer, A., Schulz, M., Skeie, R. B., Tsimpidi, A. P., Tsyro, S. G., and Xie, S. (2025): “Observationally Constrained Analysis on the Distribution of Fine and Coarse Mode Nitrate in Global Climate Models,” Atmos. Chem. Phys. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2025-235
- Smith, K., Barthel, A. M., Conlon, L. M., Van Roekel, L. P., Bartoletti, A., Golez, J.-C., Zhang, C., Begeman, C. B., Benedict, J. J., Bisht, G., Feng, Y., Hannah, W., Harrop, B. E., Jeffery, N., Lin, W., Ma, P.-L., Maltrud, M. E., Petersen, M. R., Singh, B., Tang, Q., Tesfa, T., Wolfe, J. D., Xie, S., Zheng, X., Balaguru, K., Garuba, O., Gleckler, P., Hu, A., Lee, J., Moore-Maley, B., and Ordonez, A. C. (2025): “The DOE E3SM Version 2.1: Overview and Assessment of the Impacts of Parameterized Ocean Submesoscales,” Geosci. Model Dev., 18, 1613–1633. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-18-1613-2025
- Pringle, W. J., Huang, C., Xue, P., Wang, J., Sargsyan, K., Kayastha, M. B., Chakraborty, T. C., Yang, Z., Qian, Y., & Hetland, R. D. (2025). “Coupled Lake-Atmosphere-Land Physics Uncertainties in a Great Lakes Regional Climate Model.” Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 17(2). DOI: 10.1029/2024MS004337
- Gamelin B., Rao V., Altinakar M., Bessac J., (2025) “Global teleconnections influencing large-scale drought in the United States using SVDI.” Clim Dyn, 63, 213. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-025-07691-y
- Tobias-Tarsh, L., Jung, C., Wang, J., Bobde, V., Akinsanola, A. A., and Kotamarthi, V. R.: “Evaluation of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones in a Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Simulation,” EGUsphere, [preprint], 2025. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2025-1805
Resilience and Energy Security
- Xie, Y., B. Jiang, T Mallick, JD Bergerson, JK Hutchison, DR Verner, J Branham, MR Alexander, RB Ross, Y. Feng, LA Levy, W. Su, and C. Taylor (2025). “A RAG-Based Multi-Agent LLM System for Natural Hazard Resilience and Adaptation,” npj Climate Action, accepted, 2025.
- Jung, C., Xue, P., Huang, C., Pringle, W., Biswas, M., Nain, G., & Wang, J. (2025). “Fully Coupled High-Resolution Atmosphere-Ocean-Wave Simulations of Hurricane Henri (2021): Implications for Offshore Load Assessments.” Wind Energy Science Discussions. DOI: 10.5194/wes-2025-47
- Sohrabi, S., Darestani, Y., Pringle, W. J., Dowden, D. M., & Dehghanian, P. (2025). “Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Prestressed Concrete Poles Subjected to Wind, Surges, and Waves.” Journal of Structural Engineering, 151(7). DOI: 10.1061/JSENDH.STENG-13840
- Jones, D., Steinschneider, S., Roebber, P., Osborne, S., Fry, L., Mason, L., Woude, A. vander, Phanikumar, M. S., Fox, N., Currie, W. S., Newell, S. S. M., Wang, J., Young, A., Fitzpatrick, L., Hong, Y., Abdelhady, H., Pringle, W. J., Kiledal, E. A., & Gronewold, A. D. (2025). “Mapping Out How Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Will Change Great Lakes Observations, Modeling, and Forecasting in the Coming Decade.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106(2), E378–E385. DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0304.1
- Peco, K., Wang, J., Jung, C., Sever, G., Sheridan, L., Feinstein, J., Kotamarthi, R., Draxl, C., Young, E., Purkayastha, A., and Kumler, A.: “Evaluation of a High-Resolution Regional Climate Simulation for Surface and Hub-height Wind Climatology over North America,” Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss. [preprint], in review, 2025. DOI: 10.5194/wes-2025-13















