Impact Scholar projects 2023#

We are thrilled to introduce 11 teams of 54 Impact Scholars representing 25 countries as part of our 2023 cohort!

Their ambitious projects focus on pressing climate issues on local and global scales, as well as their societal impact. Learn more about their projects below!

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Fig. 1 A representation of the scholar projects’ geographical regions of focus. The two projects marked by an asterisk (*) investigate phenomena on a global scale#


1. Observing ECCO model vs tide gauges affected by Hurricane Maria
Franck Porteous, Hannah Krohn, Faith Hunja
2. Assessing spatio-temporal precipitation variability and extreme events in India
Stefy Thomas, Khushi Dani, Sattiki Ganguly, Pandurang Choudhari
3. Influence of ENSO on the coastal upwelling along Northwest Africa
Sthitapragya Ray, Elizaveta Baranova-Parfenova, Andrea A. Cabrera, Diana Marcela Guzmán Lugo, Daria Proklova
4. Latitudinal assessment of burned area within the Argentinian Andean-Patagonian forest for the 2001-2019 fire seasons.
Franco Barrionuevo, Raphael Rocha, Luciana Rojas, Ricardo Rengifo, Cristian Farfan
5. Oceanic oscillations and Congo River Basin climatology
James Hartzell, Magda Altman, Rajiv Srivastava, Pratik Bhandari, Jeffrey N.A. Ayree
6. Exploring long-term climatological patterns of cloud coverage and NDVI in East Africa using NOAA’s Surface Reflectance Climate Data Record
Jesús Pozo, Andrea Miranda, Alethia Kielbasa, Sergei Nabatov, Benedetta Francesconi, Abdus Samad
7. Impact of two climate variabilities, ENSO and IOD, on the Onset of Summer Monsoon over the Indonesia-North Australia Region
Zhixian Yang, Selyn Rousse Acuña, Tejawini M. Pawase, René Navarro Labastida, Rosmery Lidez Condori, Naomi Nafisa Rahman
8. Impacts of ENSO on climate variables in the Pacific region
Anjana Shree RJ, Kimia Marvi, Kirtana Sunil Phatnani, Neil Marc Sordilla, Eligio Maure, Danny McCulloch
9. Understanding the historical and future impacts of ENSO on climate and coffee production in Colombia and Indonesia
Elisa Nóbrega Passos, Lakhvinder Kaur, Ninibeth Gibelli Sarmiento Herrera
10. Exploring land cover change interactions with environmental and socioeconomic factors in a tropical region due to rapid agricultural increase
Sofia Corradi Oliveira, Andrés Fernando Figueroa Curo, Magnolia Song, Manojna Polisetty, Daniela Velásquez, Maryann Alessandra Alata Chambilla
11. Largest wildfires in Angola: Correlation of vegetation and meteorological variables with wildfire intensity
Agnessa Karapetian, Kamil Vlcek, Carolina Temporão, Hatice Busra Gokbunar, Sedem Buabassah