About Me

Hi, my name is Jay Alder and I am a graduate student in the Geosciences department at Oregon State University. My research goals are a mix of modeling rapid climate change, model visualization and model performance. Hopefully lessons learned about rapid climate change during the mid-Holocene can be applied to modern climate change. My interests in model visualization and performance are to investigate how the latest computer technologies in graphics, computer hardware and computer languages can be leveraged to improve the state of climate modeling.
In the recent months I have been somewhat distracted from my main research focus by an ENSO modeling project for a graduate class. The first part of the project is to evaluate the coupled ocean-atmospheric GCM GENESIS version 3 in its simulation of ENSO. The second part of the project is an analysis of decadal to centennial scale changes in ENSO with both reduced and elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
Office: 105 Wilkinson Hall
Email: jay.alder@geo.oregonstate.edu