news

2026

May 01, 2026 Will Kamp joins the group as a postdoc!
Apr 20, 2026 Luke Howard joins the group as a postdoc!
Mar 04, 2026 BU Brink article on AI and climate prediction.
Jan 30, 2026 Article on recent paper by Arcodia et al. on forecasting coral bleaching events.
Jan 21, 2026 CDS has a write-up on the group joining BU.
Jan 01, 2026 Kyoung joins the group as a postdoc!

2025

Nov 09, 2025 Annabel Wade and Vlad Munteanu receive awards for poster presentations at 2025 Graduate Climate Conference.
Oct 07, 2025 Devin McAfee successfully defends his Masters.
Sep 30, 2025 Paper on combining climate models and observations named a 2024 Environmental Research Letters Annual Highlight.
Sep 01, 2025 Dr. Jerry Lin, Annabel Wade and Vlad Munteanu join the group.
Jul 07, 2025 Charlie Connolly successfully defends her PhD.
Jun 12, 2025 Kelsey Ennis successfully defends her Masters.
Jun 03, 2025 Daniel Hueholt successfully defends his PhD.
May 20, 2025 Libby starts at Boston University.
May 12, 2025 Jacob Landsberg successfully defends his Masters.
Apr 15, 2025 Ashley Dwyer successfully defends her Masters.
Feb 12, 2025 Kelsey Ennis selected as Second Place Winner in Poster Presentation Category at 2025 AMS 105th Annual Meeting.
Jan 14, 2025 Libby awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by President Biden.

2024

Apr 30, 2024 Hueholt et al. 2024 featured as Editors’ Highlight in Nature Communications.
Apr 19, 2024 Behind the Paper blog post at Nature Portfolio Communities about recent article by Daniel Hueholt.
Mar 31, 2024 Work featured in The Academic, written by Marybeth Arcodia.

2023

Dec 14, 2023 Guest post at Seasoned Chaos blog about animated climate intervention videos.
Oct 18, 2023 New animated videos describing climate intervention research animated by Heartwood Visuals.
Oct 17, 2023 Marybeth Arcodia interviewed by Fox Weather on global El Niño impacts.
Aug 31, 2023 Article on work on AI for Climate at CSU.
Jun 26, 2023 Article on work on how internal variability can mask impacts of net-zero.
Feb 14, 2023 Emily Gordon receives an AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award.
Feb 09, 2023 Article on Libby and collaborators’ work using machine learning to quantify time until earth’s temperature reaches critical thresholds.
Jan 13, 2023 Article on work the group is doing on climate intervention.

2022

Dec 22, 2022 Marybeth Arcodia guest authored blog post for NOAA’s Climate.gov ENSO blog.
Dec 05, 2022 Marybeth Arcodia guest writer for CSU SoGES HUMANnature blog on sustainability.
Nov 28, 2022 Barnes Group research represented at CSU Provost’s Ethics Colloquium on AI in science.
Nov 02, 2022 The Economist article on work the group is doing on detecting stratospheric aerosol injection effects.
Oct 23, 2022 Marybeth Arcodia’s blog post for Seasoned Chaos on Demystifying Machine Learning in Climate Science.
Oct 05, 2022 Barnes Group research discussed on 9News.
Sep 27, 2022 Marybeth Arcodia participated in panel discussion on Subseasonal Forecasts.
Sep 09, 2022 Kirsten Mayer’s paper featured as an EOS Editor’s Highlight.
Aug 31, 2022 Libby awarded the Professor of the Year Award by ATS Graduate Students.
Aug 23, 2022 Elina Valkonen’s comments on Arctic cyclones and sea ice on Science Magazine.
Jul 27, 2022 Jack Cahill awarded 2nd place for poster at Cooperative Research Programs Science Symposium.
Jun 27, 2022 Libby presents work on XAI for climate studies at Amazon reMARS event.
May 04, 2022 Marybeth Arcodia selected for the SoGES 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellows program.
May 03, 2022 Emily Gordon receives the CSU University Distinguished Professors Scholarship.
Mar 09, 2022 Charlie Connolly won 2nd place for Outstanding Student Presentation Award at AMS Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Feb 17, 2022 Emily Gordon and Jamin Rader win awards for oral presentation competition for AMS Session on Probability and Statistics.
Jan 31, 2022 Zack Labe on the podcast Data Skeptic.
Jan 04, 2022 Antonios Mamalakis interviewed for AGU’s Precip Folks series.

2021

Oct 05, 2021 Blog post from Data Science of the Environment at Lancaster University on work being done in the group.
Sep 15, 2021 Libby awarded the AGU Macelwane Medal and made a Fellow of the AGU.
Jul 26, 2021 Libby on the Data Skeptic podcast.
Jul 20, 2021 Ben Toms’ paper among journal’s top 10% most downloaded in 2020.
Jul 16, 2021 Libby and Dr. Patrick Keys go on podcast Emerging Environments.
Jun 30, 2021 Zack Labe awarded the Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing in Geophysical Research Letters.
Jun 25, 2021 Kirsten Mayer awarded EGU Outstanding Student and PhD Candidate Presentation Award.
Jun 25, 2021 Zack Labe’s interview on recent heatwaves in Siberia with ABC News.
Apr 30, 2021 Welcome incoming students Nico, Zaibeth and Jack.
Apr 29, 2021 Libby’s CLIVAR blog post on neural networks that can abstain.
Apr 22, 2021 Zack Labe’s thoughts on a future Earth in 2121.
Mar 26, 2021 NOAA article about Libby and her career in honor of Women’s History Month.
Mar 23, 2021 Libby awarded the CSU College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award.

2020

Dec 11, 2020 Libby’s recorded AGU 2020 Turco Lecture titled “Explainable AI for the Geosciences”.
Dec 01, 2020 Kyle Nardi’s paper on skillful S2S prediction highlighted as “Papers of Note” in BAMS.
Oct 13, 2020 Ben Toms’ paper on MJO-QBO teleconnections highlighted in a CLIVAR summary.
Sep 30, 2020 Libby awarded the AGU Turco Lectureship for 2020.
Sep 25, 2020 Zack Labe’s interview with Ginger Zee about Arctic sea ice minimum.
Sep 02, 2020 EOS article on interpreting neural networks.
Jul 30, 2020 Five questions with Atmospheric Science climate scientist Zack Labe.
Jul 17, 2020 Zack Labe joins the SoGES Sustainability Happy Hour for chat about science communication.
Apr 20, 2020 Andrea Jenney’s paper among top 10% most downloaded papers in JGR.
Apr 19, 2020 Ben Toms awarded the 2020 CSU ATS Riehl Award.
Mar 13, 2020 Andrea Jenney receives a NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Feb 16, 2020 Climate Scientists with Dan Jones podcast where Libby discusses machine learning for climate science.
Jan 31, 2020 Ben Toms receives award for outstanding oral presentation at AMS 2020.
Jan 29, 2020 Andrea Jenney and Savini Samarasinghe both receive AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Awards.
Jan 22, 2020 Ben Toms receives 2nd place for Student Oral Presentation by the AMS Committee on Probability and Statistics.
Jan 13, 2020 Libby’s AMS On the Air podcast on studying climate signals with machine learning.
Jan 03, 2020 EOS article on flavors of atmospheric rivers.

2019

Dec 13, 2019 Libby and 4 other CSU Atmos Faculty/Scientists receive awards at AGU and AMS.
Dec 12, 2019 EOS Editors’ Highlight of Andrea Jenney’s paper on STRIPES is the 2nd most viewed highlight of all time.
Dec 11, 2019 Libby’s talk recorded titled “Detecting Forced Climate Patterns with Machine Learning”.
Dec 09, 2019 Zack Labe will be joining the Barnes Group spring 2020.
Dec 02, 2019 Article on data science work being done in the Barnes Group.
Jul 22, 2019 Prof. Libby Barnes awarded the AMS Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award for 2020.
Jun 17, 2019 EOS Editors’ Highlights features paper by Andrea Jenney et al.
May 01, 2019 Wei-Ting Hsiao joins the Barnes and Maloney research groups as a PhD student, starting in August.
Apr 19, 2019 Kai-Chih Tseng awarded the Alumni Award from ATS.
Apr 08, 2019 Kirsten Mayer awarded a 3-year NSF Graduate Student Fellowship.
Mar 24, 2019 Jamin Rader awarded a 4-year DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship.
Mar 21, 2019 Jamin Rader joins the Barnes Group as a masters student, starting in August.
Feb 12, 2019 Ben Toms awarded outstanding oral presentation awards at two AMS conferences.

2018

Dec 26, 2018 “New Study Predicts Tornadoes and Hail During ‘Forecast Gap’” by NPR.
Nov 28, 2018 Researchers rise to challenge of predicting hail, tornadoes three weeks in advance.
Oct 17, 2018 Kai-Chih Tseng awarded the Shrake-Culler Scholarship.
Sep 17, 2018 CW3E news post on how many ARs hit Northern California.
Sep 07, 2018 “Rivers in the sky: Improving predictions of atmospheric rivers to reduce risk” by EARTH magazine.
Sep 07, 2018 AGCI video and art of “What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic”.
Aug 24, 2018 CW3E news post on published paper by Kyle Nardi on NWP forecasts of atmospheric rivers.
Apr 04, 2018 Recognition of Prof. Barnes and research group accomplishments (NSF CAREER Award).
Feb 20, 2018 NOAA OAR, CPO, and CSU news releases on research showing atmospheric rivers can be skillfully forecast.
Jan 19, 2018 NOAA CPO news release on recent paper by Kai-Chih Tseng et al. looking at using the MJO to support weather forecasts 3 weeks ahead of time.
Jan 10, 2018 Forecast podcast interview about Libby Barnes’ life and science, with Nature’s editor for climate science, Michael White.
Jan 04, 2018 US CLIVAR Highlights Article on Barnes and Simpson (2017) about the jet-stream response to Arctic temperature variability.

2017

May 31, 2017 NOAA Climate Program Office Feature on Barnes Group atmospheric river research.
May 30, 2017 Our group starts keeping track of news :)