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Peter Hitchcock joined the faculty in 2018. He was born and raised in Hamilton, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toronto in 2012, where he worked with Ted Shepherd. After this, he spent four years as a postdoctoral researcher with Peter Haynes at the University of Cambridge, and also did postdoctoral work with Bill Randel at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Thomas Birner at Colorado State University, along with a year at the École Polytechnique in Paris, France, prior to starting his current position. Hitchcock's research focuses on the structure and variability of the Earth's global circulation, particularly through the lens of the stratosphere, investigating how it transports energy, water vapor, and other species that shape the climate. His work includes studies on how fluctuations in global circulation contribute to climate variability and the impact of these changes on human society. He uses a variety of dynamical models and observational datasets to seek a process-based understanding of these phenomena. Hitchcock also teaches courses including EAS 3420/5420 Atmospheric Dynamics and EAS 6520 Advanced Atmospheric Dynamics, and he has developed Jupyter Notebook-based discussion classes for core meteorology courses.
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