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**Student Opportunities**
Students are highly encouraged to contact Prof. Sara Sanchez about opportunities to join the research group. I am not actively recruiting students for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. However, if interested in ATOC, check out the following link for more information!
https://www.colorado.edu/atoc/academics/prospective-graduate-students
Dr. Sara Sanchez
(she/her)Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Colorado BoulderDr. Sara Sanchez
I'm a climate scientist-- I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. I study how the climate system has changed in Earth's past and how it could change in the future. I'm fascinated with tropical climate variability and am especially interested in developing ways to best leverage information from proxy archives (especially corals) and climate models to better understand phenomena that is poorly resolved by the instrumental record.Â
Our group uses information from instrumental observations, isotope geochemistry from paleoclimate archives, and climate models to better understand the interplay of internal and forced variability of the Pacific Ocean's physical dynamics and biogeochemistry.
Shouyi (Shawn) Wang
CIRES postdoctoral fellow to collaborate with Drs. Sanchez, Jen Kay (CIRES/ATOC), Kris Karnauskas (CIRES/ATOC) and Antonietta Capotondi (CIRES)
Brandon Molina
CU Boulder Ph.D Candidate
Dora Shlosberg
CU Boulder Ph.D student
Bee May
CU Boulder U.G. student
Group Alumni
Dr. Cole Persch, 2025 ATOC PhD
Now an assistant professor of Mathematics and Statistics Instruction at Hope College!
Check out Cole's new paper here: A Critical Role for North Pacific Meridional Mode in the ENSO Response to Orbital Precession
Ryan Harrington
Summer 2023 ATOC REU participant
Project: "Consistency in the response of the hydrological cycle to strong El Nino events over the last millennium"
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