Dr. Jonathan H. Jiang is a globally recognized scientist and scientific leader with more than two decades of experience spanning Earth system science, satellite mission research, and astrophysics. He currently serves as President of the American Geophysical Union’s Global Environmental Change section. His work has played a central role in advancing the scientific use of satellite observations to improve understanding of Earth’s climate system and long-term global environmental change. He also serves as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) science strategy committee for human exploration of Mars. Over the course of his career, Dr. Jiang has received numerous national and international honors for scientific excellence and leadership, including the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, multiple NASA Exceptional Achievement and Group Achievement Awards, and the Edward Stone Award. He is an elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and has been recognized on the Reuters List of the World’s Top Climate Scientists.

Dr. Yu Gu is an Associate Director of the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE) and an Adjunct Professor of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA. Her research interests cover the areas of atmospheric aerosol, radiation, and cloud processes and their interactions, as well as improving their representations in weather and climate models and evaluating their climate effects. Dr. Gu is an Editor of Geophysical Research Letters, and an Associate Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research -Atmospheres and Frontiers in Environmental Science. She has recently been elected as a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Dr. Bin Guan is a UCLA Project Scientist affiliated with JPL. With a background in atmospheric and oceanic science, his research centers around high-impact weather and climate events and their interdisciplinary implications. He is currently serving on the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Committee on Climate Variability and Change, and the drafting committee for updating the AMS Statement on Weather Analysis and Forecasting.

Dr. Yun Lin is an assistant researcher with JIFRESSE, located at UCLA. He received a PhD in Atmospheric Science from Texas A&M University. His research interests center on the climatic effect of aerosols, particularly in its interactions with clouds and precipitation. He also works to understand the environmental effect of aerosol pollution.

Dr. Siyu Zhao is a postdoctoral researcher in Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UCLA. He received a PhD in Atmospheric Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests center on atmospheric dynamics and climate variability, particularly in interactions among atmosphere, ocean, and land. He also works on seasonal forecasts of weather/climate variables using machine learning techniques.