Welcome to our new Postdoctoral Fellows!
Welcome to the team!
Courtney Quinn
Courtney will be working with Terry O’Kane and the Data Assimilation, Climate Modelling & Ensemble Generation Team on the Dynamical Systems Approach to Understanding Predictability.
In 2013, Courtney attended the Rowan University in Glassboro and attained a BA in Mathematics as well as teaching Mathematics at both a high school and elementary level for a year. Courtney then moved to the UK to pursue her Postgraduate studies and in 2015 she completed an MSc in Atmosphere Ocean Dynamics at the University of Leeds, with her dissertation focused on the eyewall replacement cycle in tropical cyclones. After completing her masters, she started a PhD position at the University of Exeter through the support of the Marie Slodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network CRITICS: Critical Transitions in Complex Systems. Courtney’s expertise is in the areas of dynamical systems, models with delay, critical transitions, geophysical fluid dynamics, and conceptual climate modelling.
Doug Richardson
Doug will be working with James Risbey, Andrew Schepen and Carly Tozer in the Verification and Application Team and the Digiscape Future Science Platform.
Doug is from the Peak District in the UK and has studied in Newcastle upon Tyne for over seven years. He has completed a Bachelors in Maths and Stats and then a PhD in UK drought predictability. Doug’s main research interests is forecasting of extreme weather events with a focus on statistical applications.
Serena Schroeter
Serena will be working with Richard and Paul Sandery on Sea Ice Modelling.
Serena Schroeter has currently completing her PhD at the University of Tasmania’s Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, working closely with the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC and the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science. Her research was focused on how climate models represent the physical processes driving change in Antarctic sea ice, with the aim of improving the representation of these processes in the models and this better representing the global climate system.
Amanda Black
Amanda will be working with Bernadette Sloyan, James Risbey and other team members of the Observations and Processes and Verification and ApplicationTeams. Her work will focus on coupled ocean-atmosphere dynamics at various time scales.
Amanda completed her PhD in November 2018 at Iowa State University. Amanda’s dissertation research aimed to better understand the intensification of the diurnal mode of the hydrologic cycle has impacted warm season precipitation over the central United States.