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Our Team

Together, we strive to answer nature's most important science questions.

Dr. Yemi Adebiyi

Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator

Dr. Adebiyi's research focuses on understanding the impacts of atmospheric aerosols, such as dust and smoke, on the regional and global climate. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of California - Merced, and he is also a member of the Environmental Systems Graduate Group at the same university. Before joining UC Merced, he was a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California - Los Angeles. He obtained his M.Sc.-equivalent diploma in Earth System Physics at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, and his Ph.D. in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography from the University of Miami, Florida.

Postdoctoral Associates

Dr. Satyendra Pandey

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Email: spandey9@ucmerced.edu

Dr. Satyendra Pandey received his Ph. D. degree in Climate Sciences from the School of Earth, Ocean, and Climate Sciences (SEOCS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar, India in 2021. Before that, he obtained postgraduate degrees, M. Tech. in Earth System Science and Technology from IIT Kharagpur and M. Sc. in Physics from Dr. RML Avadh University India. Currently, his research focus in the Aerosol-Climate Group is to understand the impact of atmospheric dust on clouds and climate using space-borne and ground-based observations and state-of-the-art numerical models.

Graduate Students

Md Minhazul Kibria

Graduate Student - Spring 2023

Email: mkibria@ucmerced.edu

Born and raised in Bangladesh, Md Minhazul Kibria received his M.Sc.-equivalent postgraduate diploma in Earth System Physics from the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, in 2022. There he was named the Student of the Year. Before that, he obtained his undergraduate (B.Sc) and graduate (M.Sc) degrees in Physics from the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, in 2019 and 2021, respectively. At UC Merced, Minhazul’s research will focus on the impacts of dust on the regional climate over the western part of the United States.

Eromosele Precious Ebiendele

Graduate Student - Fall 2024 (co-advised by Dr. John Abatzoglou)

Email: eebiendele@ucmerced.edu

Precious earned his Bachelor of Techology (2018) in Meteorology from the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), Nigeria, and his Masters of Engineering (2022) in Engineering Mechanics and Energy from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He recently joined UC Merced as a graduate student researcher, where he focuses on understanding and modeling dust-climate interactions over the Central Valley.