Our Team
SWORD Track 1 is led from the University of Michigan with researchers spanning university labs, federal agencies, and the private sector.
SWORD Center Leadership
Principal Investigator · Director
Thomas Berger
NCAR/HAO
Project Manager
Julia Putt
CU Boulder
Research Director
Tuija Pulkkinen
UMich
SWORD Track 1: Coupled Model Development and Validation
Coupling the SWMF/Geospace model with WAM-IPE to deliver an end-to-end forecast from solar wind to surface.
Aaron Bukowski
UMich
MILE library, thermospheric validation
Yuxi Chen
UMich
SWMF, ESMF coupling
Pauline Dredger
UMich
SWMF/Geospace
Sreelakshmi Jayaraman
UMich
Ionospheric validation
Aaron Ridley
UMich
GITM, MILE library
Gábor Tóth
UMich
SWMF, ESMF coupling
Dan Welling
UMich
SWMF/Geospace
Shasha Zou
UMich
Ionospheric validation
Naomi Maruyama
CU / LASP
WAM-IPE
Robert Oehmke
ESMF
ESMF coupling
Ann Tsay
ESMF
ESMF coupling
Ufuk Turungolu
ESMF
ESMF coupling
Rajan Itani
UAF
Ionospheric validation
Doğa Ozturk
UAF
Ionospheric validation
Shannon Hill
UIowa
Ionospheric validation
Advisors
Tamas Gombosi
UMich
Mike Liemohn
UMich
TTR Advisors
Tzu-Wei Fang
NOAA SWPC
Banafsheh Ferdousi
AFRL
Howard Singer
NOAA SWPC
TTR (Transition to Research) Advisors provide guidance on transitioning SWORD research products into the NOAA operational forecasting environment.
Students
Students contributing to coupled model development, data analysis, and validation experiments.
Atheer Alhothali
UMich
Talha Arshad
UMich
Michelle Bui
UMich
Henry Christiansen
UMich
Connor DiMarco
UMich
Ari Gottesman
UMich
Grace Kwon
UMich
Amelia Lee
UMich
Hang Liu
UMich
Maria Smirnova
UMich