ESM

Researchers

	Carlos R. Mechoso is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is a member of the San Diego Supercomputer Center Steering and Executive Committees. His research interests include numerical weather prediction, meteorology of the Southern Hemisphere, dynamics of atmospheric fronts, and ocean-atmosphere interactions.He received his Ph.D. in geophysical fluid dynamics from Princeton University in 1978.
	John D. Farrara is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles. His interests include parallel and distributed computing for scientific applications, the dynamics of the stratospheric circulation, and global general circulation modeling of the atmosphere. He received his Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from UCLA in 1989.
	Joseph A. Spahr is a senior computer programmer in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles. His interests include large-scale computing, particularly parallel and distributed processing for scientific applications. He received his B.S. in atmospheric sciences from Cornell University in 1974.
	Dimitris Menemenlis is a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Loboratory, California Institute of Technology. His interests include large scale ocean circulation, sea-ice processes, and their interaction with climate and with the global carbon cycle. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Acoustical Oceanography from the University of Victoria and from the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia, Canada under the supervision of Dr. David Farmer, followed by a Post Doctoral position with Carl Wunsch at the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology.