Andrea Suárez-Rosado
As part of Dr. Andrea Lopez Lang’s research group, my work focuses on understanding how disturbances near the tropopause influence high-impact weather across North America. Much of this research connects to NASA’s North American Upstream Feature-Resolving and Tropopause Uncertainty Reconnaissance Experiment (NURTURE), a field campaign that investigates stratosphere–troposphere interactions driving winter storms. I am particularly interested in tropopause polar vortices and their connection to large-scale atmospheric dynamics and extreme weather.
I earned my B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. While working in the Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory, I studied aerosol optical properties and dust transport, which sparked my interest in how small-scale processes can affect global circulation and climate. Outside of research, I am a proud cat mom.