MitchellCVwBiblio.pdf

Education:

2007 Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago

2002 M.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago

2000 B.S. Summa Cum Laude in Physics with honors, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA

Research Interests:

✹ Planetary atmospheres and climate

✹ Paleoclimate

✹ Icy moons (Titan, Europa, Enceladus)

✹ Extrasolar planets

Honors and Awards

2013              Ronald Greeley Award, American Geophysical Union

2013              IBM Einstein Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

2012-2013     Hellman Fellows Award, University of California

2011-2012     Faculty Career Development Award, UCLA

2007-2009     W. M. Keck Foundation Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Employment:

2015-         Associate Prof., UCLA Earth & Space Sciences; Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences

2016-2017 Associate Prof., Westmont College, Department of Physics

2013          Member, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton

2009-         Assistant Prof., UCLA Earth & Space Sciences; Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences

2007-2009 Member, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton

2003-2007 Research Assistant, Climate Systems Center, University of Chicago

2002-2003 Research Assistant, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago

2001-2002 Coordinator/Lead Instructor, 38th Astro-Science Workshop, Adler Planetarium

2000-2001 Policy Research Assistant, RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA

1999-2000 Research Assistant, University of California at Santa Barbara

1998-1999 Research Assistant, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA

1997-1998 Research Assistant, Superconductor Technologies Inc., Santa Barbara, CA

Teaching Experience:

2017                 PHY155, Topics: Weather and Climate, Westmont College

2017                 PHY024, General Physics Laboratory, Westmont College

2016                 PHY011, Physics for Life Sciences, Westmont College

2016                 PHY025, Modern Physics, Westmont College

2013-                AOS3, Intro. to the Atmospheric Environment, UCLA

2011-                AOS200A, Intro. to Atmospheric & Oceanic Fluids, UCLA

2011-                ESS200B, Oceans & Atmospheres, UCLA

2010-                ESS229, Planetary Atmospheres, UCLA

2010-                AOS101, Atmospheric Thermodynamics & Dynamics, UCLA

2009 Spring      Guest Lecturer, Astrobiology, Princeton University

2006 Winter      Substitute Lecturer & TA, Climate Dynamics on Earth and Other Planets

2005 Fall          TA, Mathematical Modeling and Dynamical Systems

2005 Spring      TA, Global Warming

2003 Winter      TA, The Milky Way

2003 Summer   Instructor, Yerkes (Observatory) Summer Institute

2001-2002        Coordinator/Lead Instructor, 38th Astro-Science Workshop, Adler Planetarium

Research Group:

Tersi Arias – 7th year graduate student, AOS, Cassini observations of Titan’s methane clouds

Sean Faulk – 6th year graduate student, EPSS, ITCZ dynamics, methane hydrology on Titan

Former group members:

Matthew Walker – Former grad student, Viscoelastic models of resonant moons, now postdoc at ASU

Kunio Sayanagi – Postdoc, ESS (2010-2011), now Assistant Professor at Hampton University

Jeff Portwood – Undergrad, ESS (2011-2012), Climate hysteresis on Titan

Sander van Oers – Visiting grad student (2012), Folding instabilities of planetary lithospheres

Joao Rafael dias Pinto – visiting grad student (2012-2013), Atmospheric superrotation

Peng Wang – Postdoc, EPSS, Global linear instabilities in planetary atmospheres, now at Citibank

Service & Outreach:

2011-        Exploring Your Universe outreach day, UCLA

2013        Interview for “Most Extreme Space Weather”, Weather Channel

2013        Institute for Planets and Exoplanets steering committee, UCLA

2011        Volunteer, Science Explosion Friday, Lanai Road Elementary School, LA

2009-       Admissions, Computing, Search, and Advising Committees, ESS and AOS

                    Departments, UCLA

2010        Organizer, IPAM program, Equation Hierarchies for Understanding Climate

2009, 2012    NASA review panels, Washington, DC

2009-        Reviewer for NASA Outer Planets, Planetary Atmospheres, and Origins

2006-        Referee for Nature, Nature Geoscience, Astrophysical Journal, Icarus, JGR,

                        Journal of Atmospheric Sciences

2006         Local organizing committee, Pale Blue Dot III, Adler Planetarium Chicago

Invited talks:  Caltech, Harvard, Princeton, Berkeley, Yale, UCSC, Northwestern, AMS, AGU