Cegeon J. Chan

Business Address:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bldg. 54-1719

77 Massachusetts Ave

Cambridge, MA 02139

Telephone: (617) 253-6283

Facsimile: (617) 253-6208

Home Address:

410 Memorial Drive

Apt 242

Cambridge, MA 02139

Telephone: (617) 939-6498

Email: cegeon@mit.edu


Education



Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

PhD candidate. Atmospheric Science, anticipated August 2009. Research focuses on whether and how the stratosphere can influence the troposphere.


Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

M.S. Atmospheric Science, February 2006

Thesis: Annular Modes in a Multiple Migrating Zonal Jet Regime


Lyndon State College

Lyndonville, VT

B.S. Meteorology, B.S. Mathematics, Cum Laude, May 2003

Senior Thesis: The Influence of Sea-Surface Temperature Anomalies on the Indian Monsoon

Awards

NASA Earth System Science Fellowship, 2003

Gil Ford Award for Meteorology, 2003

Research Experience

MIT, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Advisor: Dr. Alan Plumb

Sep 2003 - present

Cambridge, MA

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth System Science
Summer 2002

Advisor: Dr. Per Gloersen

Greenbelt, MD



Teaching Experience

MIT, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences


12.307(U) – Weather and Climate Laboratory

Responsible for organizing lab experiments. Assisted in creating problem sets.


12.310(U) – Introduction to Weather Forecasting

Responsible for contributing to current events segment. Leading lab sessions. Assisted in creating problem sets.


DEAPS(U) - Discovery of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Responsible for organizing lab experiment. Assisted in creating problem sets.


Mathematics Tutor, Lyndon State College Mathematics Dept. Conducted review sessions to clarify course materials.

Spring 2008





IAP 2007, 2008




2008




2000 - 2003


Poster and Oral Presentations

Chan C. J., and R. A. Plumb (SPARC 4th General Assembly, Bologna, Italy, September 2008) The tropospheric response to stratospheric perturbations and its sensitivities to topographically-forced stationary waves

Chan C. J., and R. A. Plumb (Northeast Storm Conference, Springfield, MA, Mar. 2008) On the Two Distinct Zonal Jet Regimes

Chan C. J., and R. A. Plumb (Role of the Stratosphere in Climate and Climate Change, AGU Chapman Conference, Santorini, Greece, Sept. 2007) The Effect of Poleward Propagation on the Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling in a Simple GCM

Chan C. J., and R. A. Plumb (AMS Atmosphere / Ocean Dynamics Conference, Santa Fe, NM, June 2007) Does the Poleward Propagation of the Zonal-Mean Zonal Flow Anomalies Depend upon the Slope of the Tropopause?

Chan C. J., and R. A. Plumb (University of Maryland, June 2006) Multiple Migrating jets in a Baroclinically Unstable Flow in an OGCM

Chan C. J., and R. A. Plumb (Jets and Annular Structures, AGU Chapman Conference, Savannah, Ga, Jan 2006) Annular Modes in a Multiple Migrating Zonal Jet Regime.


Publications

C. J. Chan, and R. A. Plumb, 2008: The response to stratospheric forcing and its dependence on the state of the troposphere. submitted to J. Atmos. Sci

C. J. Chan, R. A. Plumb, and I. Cerovecki, 2007: Annular Modes in a Multiple Migrating Zonal Jet Regime. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 4053-4068.


Leadership

Experience

Graduate Tutor, MIT Residential Life

2007 - present

Establish and maintain a safe, supporting and caring 45 resident community



President, Lyndon State College AMS/NWA Local Chapter

2002-2003

Organized 32 speakers and 330 attendees from various disciplines as Chairman of the 2003 Northeast Storm Conference. Awarded “AMS National Student Chapter of the Year.”


Lyndon State College Resident Assistant

2000-2002

Received highest evaluations from the residential community and awarded “King of Residential Life” 2000 & 2001.


Secretary, Lyndon State College Student Association Senate

2000-2001



Additional

Experience

On-air TV Meteorologist, LSC-TV NEWS 7

2002-2003

Designed maps using WSI Weather Producer. Performed twice-daily live newscasts and viewed by fourteen thousand households nightly.


Meteorological Operations, WSI Corporation

2001-2002

Generated graphics for aviation, private forecasting, and web clients.


Intern, WFXT FOX25

Summer, 2001

Produced on-air graphics and worked in fast-paced environment to provide latest weather information. Created nightly written forecasts for FOX25 website.


Professional Memberships

Member, American Meteorological Society, 2000-present. Member, American Geophysical Union, 2005-present.


Community Service

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts

2006-2008

Mentored a child for 10 hours a month


References

Dr. Alan Plumb

Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; Bldg. 54-1712

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

(617) 253-6281

rap@rossby.mit.edu


Dr. Per Gloersen

Oceans and Ice Branch, Code 971

NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center

Greenbelt, MD 20771

(301) 614-5710

per.gloersen@gsfc.nasa.gov


Dr. Nolan T. Atkins

Meteorology Department

Vail 404

Lyndon State College

Lyndonville, VT 05851

802-626-6238

nolan.atkins@lyndonstate.edu

Kevin Lemanowicz

WFXT-TV FOX25

25 Fox Drive

Dedham, MA 02027

(781) 467-2525

KPL6@cornell.edu