Juan A. Crespo, Ph.D.

Greetings! I am an Atmospheric Scientist and Assistant Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles's (UCLA) Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE). As a member of JIFRESSE, I maintain an affiliation with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where I first started as a postdoc in 2018. At UCLA and JPL, I am a member of the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) science team, where I am working on developing a surface heat flux product for the CYGNSS mission and using it to observe how extratropical cyclones can develop in the lower latitudes. While CYGNSS (launch shown below) is intended to be a tropical ocean's mission, its orbit brings it to the 35th parallel in both hemispheres, giving it the potential to observe ETCs forming in the lower latitudes over the Earth's oceans.

I received my PhD in Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences from the University of Michigan in Spring 2018. My PhD thesis focused on how we could use new satellite technology to increase our understanding for how extratropical cyclones (ETCs) develop at the mesoscale and near the ocean surface. I received my Masters in Atmospheric Science from Michigan in 2015, and I received my Bachelors Degree in Atmospheric Science & Meteorology from Purdue University in May 2013. 

Here on my website, you can access the papers I've published and presentations I have given throughout the country, as well as my abridged CV. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Cover Photo: Full day of Level-2 CYGNSS Latent Heat Flux observations on 2022 January 01.