Dr. Daile Zhang to join ATSC Faculty – Fall 2024

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences is pleased to announce that Dr. Daile Zhang is joining the ATSC faculty as a tenure-track Assistant Professor beginning in Fall 2024!  Among her classes, Daile will be teaching ATSC-240: Meteorological Instrumentation, ATSC-450: Intro. to Cloud Physics Meteorology, and ATSC-575: Special Topics in Meteorology: Atmospheric Electricity.

Daile is currently an Assistant Research Scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of Maryland. Currently, she is working on evaluating and assessing lightning data from different lightning locating systems, including ground-based and satellite-based networks. Outside of her study, Daile plays piano and organ. Besides music, she also enjoys reading and traveling.

We are very excited to have Daile joining us this fall!