Director

Dr. Wei Gao
Director of USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program, Professor in the Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Department
Phone: 970 491-3609
Email: wei.gao@colostate.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Scientists

Dr. Johny Arteaga Guarumo
Research Scientist, development, validation, and application of large-scale ecological/regional climate modeling systems
Phone: 970 491-2637
Email: johny.arteaga_guarumo@colostate.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Maosi Chen
Research Scientist, UV impacts on plant litter decomposition, machine learning development
Phone: 970 491-3604
Email: maosi.chen@colostate.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Melannie Hartman
Senior Research Associate, Ecosystem modeling
Phone: 970 491-1609
Email: melannie.hartman@colostate.edu

Support Staff

Rita Deike
Office Manager
Phone: 970 491-3600
Email: rita.deike@colostate.edu

George Janson
Research Associate, site operations, instrumentation calibration, and project management
Phone: 970 491-3621
Email: george.janson@colostate.edu

Becky Olson
Research Associate, scientific programming, website and database development
Email: becky.olson@colostate.edu

Darrin Sharp
Research Associate, scientific programming, website and database development
Phone: 970 491-3620
Email: darrin.sharp@colostate.edu

Scott Simpson
Research Associate, site operations, instrumentation
Phone: 970 491-3622
Email: scott.simpson@colostate.ed

Jonathan Straube
Research Associate, Computer System Administration
Phone: 970 491-3607
Email: jonathan.straube@colostate.edu

Affiliated Scientists

Dr. Chelsea Corr
Research Scientist, UV climatology, radiative transfer modeling, data quality
Email: ccorr-limoges@springfieldcollege.edu

Dr. Xin-Zhong Liang
Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland
Phone: 301 405-6300
Email: xliang@umd.edu

Dr. Sasha Madronich
Senior Scientist, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Lab, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Phone: 303 497-1430
Email: sasha@ucar.edu

Dr. William J Parton
Senior Research Scientist, Atmosphere-biosphere interactions, Ecosystem modeling, and development of DayCent-UVB model
Phone: 970 491-1987
Email: william.parton@colostate.edu

Dr. Raja Reddy
Research Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University
Phone: 662 325-9463
Email: krreddy@pss.msstate.edu

Dr. Zhibin Sun
Research Scientist, data assimilation theories and algorithm development
Email: zhibin.sun@colostate.edu
Curriculum Vitae