张蓉博士Dr. Rong Zhang

Education:

1997-2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Ph. D. Climate Physics and Chemistry, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

1996-1997 Boston University, Boston, MA

M. A. Physics, Department of Physics

1990-1995 Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China

B. E. Electronic Engineering, Department of Electronic Engineering

Employment:

Aug. 2006 - Present, Oceanographer, Climate Change, Variability, and

Prediction Group Group, GFDL, Princeton, NJ

Jan. 2004 - Aug. 2006, Research Scientist, GFDL/ AOS Program,

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2003 Postdoctoral Research Associate, GFDL / AOS

Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Research Interests:

Abrupt climate change and low frequency variability in the coupled ocean-atmosphere system, ocean's role in global and regional climate change, global teleconnections of climate change, mechanism and fingerprints of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) variability.