Bio: ​Ye Mu is a PhD candidate of climate science with the University of California, Santa Barbara's Department of Geography, NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology Future Investigator (FINESST), and Graduate Student Researcher at the Earth Research Institute (ERI). He was an intern for the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Earth System Science Internship (NESSI) in Boulder, Colorado, USA, in 2023. Before joining the University of California, Santa Barbara in September, 2021, Ye completed his Master of Science degree at the San Diego State University and was a research assistant for two years.
Ye's research uses large datasets and models to understand atmospheric systems and climatic modes on the variability of climate extremes. Research interests are climate extremes, precipitation, land-atmosphere feedbacks, hydrologic processes, and climate change.
My UCSB webpage: https://www.geog.ucsb.edu/people/students/ye-mu
My NCAR webpage: edec.ucar.edu/students/nessi/2023-nessi-interns
Research Group: Climate Variations and Change (CLIVAC) research group
​Email: ye.mu@geog.ucsb.edu 

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Biography

Awards:
2022 - American Association of Geographers (AAG) Climate Specialty Group student paper competition third place​
2021&22 - Jack and Laura Dangermond Geography Travel Scholarship, UCSB
​2021 - American Association of Geographers (AAG) Climate Specialty Group student annual meeting fellowship
2021 -  Student Success Fee (SSF) grant for geography students to attend the AAG conference, San Diego State University
2021 -  Student Success Fee (SSF) grant for Climate Talks, San Diego State University,  https://ggsa.sdsu.edu/ggsas-2021-virtual-climate-talks/
2020 - Graduate Student Travel Fund (Spring Cycle), San Diego State University
2020 -  William & Vivian Finch Scholarship for Remote Sensing, Department of Geography, San Diego State University
2020 -  Student Success Fee (SSF) grant for geography students to attend the American Association of Geographers (AAG) conference, San Diego State University
Presentations:
9) Aug - 2023 - Global Scale Forcing of SALLJ and Associated Local Impacts on Precipitation Extremes. NESSI Presentations, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado.
8) Jun - 2023 - Moisture recycling in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon. Climate Meeting seminar, University of California, Santa Barbara.
7) Dec - 2022 - The South American Low-Level Jet Evolution in Two Episodes of Mesoscale Convective Systems. AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago. 
6) Dec - 2022 - Forest and Oceanic Dry Season Moisture Sources in the Brazilian Amazon. AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago. 
5) Mar-2022 - Variability of rainfall and associated mechanisms across the Brazilian Legal Amazon. AAG Annual Meeting 2022. Changes in Hydroclimates and Extremes 2. 
4) Dec-2021 - Detecting Trends in Dry Season Rainfall from the Satellite Precipitation Estimates and a Dense Rain Gauge Network over the Southwestern Brazilian Amazon. AGU Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, H15P-1235.
3) Apr-2021 - Forests mitigate drought in an agricultural region of the Brazilian Amazon. AAG Annual Meeting 2021. Hydroclimatology session II.
2) Dec-2020 -  Improving the CHIRPS (V2. 0) precipitation estimates for rainfall extremes using a dense rain gauge network over the Brazilian Amazon. AGU Fall Meeting 2020, H200.
1) Feb-2020 -  Land-Cover Classification Using Spectral Mixture Analysis and Random Forest. Student Research Symposium, San Diego State University.
Services:
Reviewer for journal: - Water Resources Research; Climate Dynamics; Ecological Indicators; Atmospheric Research; Earth and Space Science; Meteorologische Zeitschrift; World Journal of Engineering; Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies; Forest Science and Technology; Scientific Reports.