Luke Van Roekel

Luke P. Van Roekel is currently a research scientist in the climate, ocean, and sea-ice modeling group at LANL and is the co-lead developer of the MPAS-Ocean model, the ocean component of the DOE's new Exascale EnergyEarth System Model (E3SM) and is a science focus group co-lead on the E3SM project. Some of his research interests include ocean surface boundary layer turbulence, large scale earth system dynamics, ocean-atmosphere coupling phenomena, and parameterization of these processes for earth system models. Before joining LANL he was an assistant professor of atmospheric science at a liberal arts college in Wisconsin.