Catherine Stauffer is a Postdoctoral Researcher in McGill University's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, working under Dr. Ivy Tan. She studies Arctic surface cloud feedbacks and the cloud microphysical components of the cloud feedback using remote sensing and radiative transfer modeling. She earned her Ph.D. in Meteorology from Florida State University in 2023 with a Flight Master's of Science (2020) on tropical cloud changes and cloud feedbacks using idealized modeling under the advisement of Dr. Allison Wing. Before that, she earned her Bachelor's of Science in Meteorology from FSU in 2018, graduating cum laude, with Honors in the Major, and as a Garnet and Gold Scholar. Her honors thesis was on the air-sea coupling dependency on sea surface temperature fronts using research vessel data, under the advisement of Dr. Mark Bourassa. She was also a meteorological analyst for RMS H*WIND where her work included operational hurricane analysis during the 2016, 2017, and 2018 hurricane seasons.
She has previously lived in Florida, Connecticut, Colorado, and New Mexico and has close ties to Alabama, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania. Her hobbies include exercising and any outdoor activity.
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