DepartmentDepartment of Atmospheric Sciences
OrganizationUAF
Emailusbhatt@alaska.edu
Location
Fairbanks , Alaska
United StatesBio
Also Director of the UAF/NOAA Cooperative Institute for Alaska Research (CIFAR)
Dr. Uma Bhatt majored in Mechanical Engineering as an undergraduate and then she joined the U.S. Peace Corps and served as a high school math teacher in Kenya for two years (1983-85). The dramatic drought in East Africa during this time and the amazing atmospheric phenomena she experienced at the rural secondary school made her decide to pursue a graduate degree in Atmospheric Sciences. Dr. Bhatt proudly claims this to be one of the best decisions she has ever made! Dr. Bhatts research specialty is "Climate Variability", and she has studied tropical climate for my M.S. and midlatitude air-sea interactions for her Ph.D. (and postdoc). For the past decade, her work has focused on Arctic climate as a faculty member at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The majority of Dr. Bhatts recent research has been interdisciplinary, collaborating with oceanographers, glaciologists, and biologists. This research employs both models and observations and viewing the Arctic as a whole, thereby helping to better understand how various components of the climate system interact.
Dr. Uma Bhatt majored in Mechanical Engineering as an undergraduate and then she joined the U.S. Peace Corps and served as a high school math teacher in Kenya for two years (1983-85). The dramatic drought in East Africa during this time and the amazing atmospheric phenomena she experienced at the rural secondary school made her decide to pursue a graduate degree in Atmospheric Sciences. Dr. Bhatt proudly claims this to be one of the best decisions she has ever made! Dr. Bhatts research specialty is "Climate Variability", and she has studied tropical climate for my M.S. and midlatitude air-sea interactions for her Ph.D. (and postdoc). For the past decade, her work has focused on Arctic climate as a faculty member at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The majority of Dr. Bhatts recent research has been interdisciplinary, collaborating with oceanographers, glaciologists, and biologists. This research employs both models and observations and viewing the Arctic as a whole, thereby helping to better understand how various components of the climate system interact.