Dr. Bing Pu (Assistant Professor)

Bing Pu got her B.S. degree from Nanjing Institute of Meteorology and a M.S. degree from Peking University in China. She received her Ph.D. degree in Atmospheric Science from Cornell University in 2011. Bing Pu conducted her postdoctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin and worked as an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University/NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory before joining KU as a faculty member in 2019.

Graduate Students

Brian J. Harr (M.S. 2023)

Brian joined our group in fall 2021. He got a Bachelor’s degree in Atmospheric Science from KU. Brian is currently working on understanding the spatiotemporal variability of African dust. Brain presented his recent work of “The emission, transport, and impacts of the extreme 2015 Saharan dust storm” at the 103^rd AMS Annual Meeting at Denver, Colorado, in January 2023 and won an Outstanding Student Poster Presentation Award. Brian deafened his MS degree in summer and started his PhD work in the fall of 2023 (LOA in spring 2024).

Ibrahim A. Tella

Ibrahim started his MS study at KU in fall 2023. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Meteorology from the Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria. Prior to joining our group, Ibrahim worked at the National Weather Forecasting and Climate Research Center in Nigerian Meteorological Agency, Abuja. Ibrahim’s current work focuses on understanding the formation of dust storms in North Africa.

Former Graduate Students

Jacob Z. Tindan (M.S. 2022)

Jacob was a MS student in Atmospheric Science (2020-2022). He got his B.S. degree in Meteorology and Climate Science from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana in 2018 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Earth System Physics from Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ITCP) in Italy in 2020. Jacob joined our group in fall 2020 and since then had worked on understanding dust spatiotemporal variations (day-night differences and interannual variations) in the Dust Belt (North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia) using station data, reanalyses, and satellite products.

Jacob won an Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award from KU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2023 (thesis title “Day-night Differences and Long-term Trends in Dust Activities over the Dust Belt of North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the Early 21st Century“). He is now in a PhD program at Penn State.

Former Undergraduate Researchers

Kaden Huber (Fall 2023)

Kaden worked with Qinjian and Bing on understanding the capability of reanalysis products in capturing the extreme Saharan dust plume in June 2020. Kaden’s research was supported by a NSF grant.