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Jesse Day San Francisco, CA 94164 [email protected] www.atmos.berkeley.edu/~jessed Cell: 617-699-9546

RESEARCH INTEREST The physics of climate, projecting the impact of 21st century on humanity, and how to devise effective policy responses.

EDUCATION Ph.D., Atmospheric Science University of California Berkeley, August 2010-May 2016 Dissertation Title: The Dynamics of Precipitation Variability in the Asian Monsoon. Department of Earth and Planetary Science. Advisor: Inez Fung Dissertation committee members: David Romps and John Chiang Intensive B.S., Physics Yale University, September 2005-May 2009 Distinction in the Major. Received Richard U. Light Fellowship 2009-2010 for Intensive Mandarin study in Beijing.

PUBLICATIONS Day, Jesse A., Inez Fung and Camille Risi, 2015: “Coupling of South and East Asian Monsoon Precipitation in July-August.” J. Climate, 28, 4330-4356. Day, Jesse A., Inez Fung and Weihan Liu, 2016: “The Rainband Detection Algorithm (RDA): A climatology of rainbands in China.” In preparation. Chiang, John C. H., I. Y. Fung, C-H. Wu, Y. Cai, J. P. Edman, Y. Liu, J. A. Day, T. Bhattacharya, Y. Mondal and C. A. Labrousse, 2015: “Role of seasonal transitions and westerly jets in East Asian paleoclimate.” Quat. Sci. Rev., 108, 111-129. Cai, Y., I. Y. Fung, R. L. Edwards, Z. An, H. Cheng, J.-E. Lee, L. Tan, C.-C. Shen, X. Wang, J. A. Day, W. Zhou, M. J. Kelly, J. C. H. Chiang, 2015: Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian Monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 years. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 112, 2954- 2959. Randolph-Flagg, N., J. A. Day, C. W. Johnson, R. Bürgmann and M. Manga, 2016: “Hydrologic modulation of seismicity near the Tibetan Plateau between 1991 and 2013.” In review.

LEADERSHIP, TEACHING AND SERVICE Graduate Representative, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, Fall 2012-Fall 2014 Liaison between graduate students and faculty on department climate, collected student feedback on faculty searches, supervised peer mentoring program. Undergraduate Research Mentor, UC Berkeley, Fall 2012-Spring 2013 Designed research projects for UC Berkeley undergraduates Carlos Torres and Weihan Liu on frontal convective systems during the East Asian summer monsoon, culminating in publishable research. Reviewer, Journal of Climate, Quaternary Science Reviews, Climate Dynamics, Journal of Meteorological Research, Holocene. Graduate Student Instructor, EPS 50: The Planet Earth, UC Berkeley, Fall 2012 Responsible for teaching two sections of ~20 students in a laboratory setting. Coach, UC Berkeley Club Sports (Ultimate Frisbee), Spring 2013-Spring 2015 Designed practice plans in conjunction with team captains, coached team at tournaments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS Statistical analysis in MATLAB, Ferret and R. Further programming experience in C++ and shell scripting. Global circulation model (GCM) operation - Adapted Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique Zoom (LMDZ) GCM to run on NERSC computing cluster and conducted suite of simulations. Adobe Illustrator proficiency in designing publication-quality figures.

AWARDS Richard U. Light Fellowship, June 2009-May 2010 Funded for a year of study at intensive Mandarin Chinese immersion programs in China. Spent Summer 2009 at Harvard-Beijing Academy (HBA) and the Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 semesters at the Associated Colleges in China program (ACC).

Tetelman Summer Fellowship, Summer 2008 Conducted research with Prof. Yilong Han at the University of Science and Technology (HKUST), working on theoretical and laboratory problems in colloidal physics.

OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 Senior thesis research with Professor Jun Korenaga, simulating the thermal evolution of a hypothesized early Earth magma ocean in the wake of the Lunar-Forming Impact. Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School, Summer 2007 Under supervision of project director Larry Beeferman, helped to write white paper on the potential underestimation of the risk of investment in infrastructure projects by pension funds. Manoharan Lab, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Summer 2006 Under Prof. Vinothan Manoharan, performed numerical calculations of light scattering from colloidal systems, attempting to develop simple method for tracking distance between two particles trapped in optical tweezers.

ACTIVITIES Competitive Scrabble player, ranked in top 10 in North America and top 50 in world. Runner-up at 2015 North American Scrabble Championship. Representative of the USA at World Scrabble Championship, 2013-2015. Fluent speaker of English, Mandarin Chinese and French. Conversational Spanish, Thai and Italian.

TALKS Day, Jesse A., Inez Fung and Camille Risi, 2014: Coupling of East and South Asian Monsoon Precipitation in July-August. San Francisco State University Distinguished Speakers Series, Feb. 2015. Day, Jesse A., Inez Fung and Camille Risi, 2014: Coupling of July-August monthly rainfall anomalies between India and China. Tibetan Plateau Workshop, Estes Park, Oct. 2014. Day, Jesse A., Jacob Edman, Inez Fung and Weihan Liu, 2014: Covariance of Meiyu rainfall and tropospheric jet latitude on daily timescales and potential signal of the "South Wet North Dry" pattern of China rainfall. Tibetan Plateau Workshop, Estes Park, Oct. 2014. Day, Jesse A., Jacob Edman and Inez Fung, 2013: A Catalog of Meiyu Front Positions and Comparison with Jet Transitions. Tibetan Plateau Workshop, Friday Harbor, Sep. 2013. Day, Jesse A. and Inez Fung, 2012: Observations of Precipitation in East Asia: Influence of High and Low Orography. Tibetan Plateau Workshop, Xi'an, China, Oct. 2012.

POSTERS Day, Jesse A., Inez Fung and Camille Risi, 2015: The Relationship of Indian Ocean ITCZ Latitude and the Distribution of Monsoon Rainfall. Monsoons & ITCZ: the annual cycle in the Holocene and the future, conference hosted at , Sep. 2015. Day, Jesse A., Inez Fung and Camille Risi, 2015: Coupling of Indian and East Asian Monsoon Precipitation in July-August. Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center Symposium 2015. Randolph-Flagg, Noah G., Jesse A. Day, Roland Burgmann and Michael Manga, 2015: Hydrologic modulation of seismicity in western China 1991-2014. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015. Day, Jesse A., Inez Fung and Camille Risi, 2014: Coupling of Indian and East Asian Monsoon Precipitation in July-August. American Geophysical Union Fall 2014 Conference. Chiang, John C., Inez Y. Fung, Chi-Hua Wu, Yanjun Cai, Jacob P. Edman, Yuwei Liu, Jesse A. Day, Tripti Bhattacharya, Yugarshi Mondal and Clothilde A. Labrousse, 2014: Role of seasonal transitions and westerly jets in East Asian paleoclimate. American Geophysical Union Fall 2014 Conference. Day, Jesse A., Jacob P. Edman, Inez Fung and Weihan Liu, 2014: A 57-year Catalog of the Meiyu Front: Statistics and Correlation with Jet Transitions. Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center Symposium 2014. Randolph-Flagg, Noah G., Jesse A. Day, Roland Burgmann and Michael Manga, 2013: Seasonal Variability in Tibetan Seismicity (1991-2013). American Geophysical Union Fall 2013 Conference. Jesse A. Day, Inez Fung and Camille Risi, 2013: Observations of Precipitation near the Eastern Tibetan Plateau: Constraints on Monsoon Propagation. Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center Symposium 2013.