Erwan Monier
Davis, California, 95616
USA
Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science, University of California, Davis, expected June 2008
Graduate GPA 3.95 — Courses taken.
Adviser: Professor Bryan C. Weare.
Master's degree in Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics Engineering, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, FRANCE, June 2003
(National Polytechnic Institute of Engineering in Electrotechnology, Electronics, Computer Science, Hydraulics and Telecommunications)
Specialization: Water Sciences and Environment — Courses taken.
Research Assistant, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis, (9/03-present)
Adviser : Bryan C. Weare
Study of the influences of the initial and boundary conditions input dataset (ECMWF ERA-40 reanalyses and NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis) on the simulation of the Madden and Julian Oscillation (MJO) employing the Fifth Generation Pennsylvania State University and National Center for Atmospheric Research (PSU/NCAR) Mesoscale Model (MM5).
Tutor, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, UC Davis, (Fall 2006)
Course Title: ATM 120 - Atmospheric Thermodynamics and Cloud Physics.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, UC Davis, (Spring 2005)
Course Title: ATM 10 - Severe and Unusual Weather.
Reader/Grader, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, UC Davis, (Winter 2005)
Course Title: ATM 121a - Introduction to Atmospheric Dynamics.
Reader/Grader, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, UC Davis, (Fall 2004)
Course Title: ATM 120 - Atmospheric Thermodynamics and Cloud Physics.
Webmaster, Biometeorology Program, UC Davis, (Summer 2006)
Web development, interface design & search engine optimization of the Biometeorology program's Website at the University of California, Davis (http://biomet.ucdavis.edu).
Webmaster, Atmospheric Science Program, UC Davis, (2005)
Web development, interface design & search engine optimization of the Atmospheric Science program's Website at the University of California, Davis (http://atm.ucdavis.edu).
Engineer Intern, ADEME (French Agency for Environment and Energy Management), (February-June 2003)
Assessment study of the impact of aircraft traffic management and technologies on fuel burn and air pollution. Programming of a computer tool modeling fuel burn and pollutant emissions during a flight.
Engineer Intern, EDF - R&D - National Hydraulics and Environment Laboratory, (Summer 2002)
Validation of the coupling between a code modeling flood fields along a river and the computational model of hydraulic flows MASCARET 5.1 and feasibility study for the coupling with the subcritical and supercritical flow computational kernel.
Engineer Intern, Fairtec, subsidiary company of Suez, FRANCE, (Summer 2001)
Programming of a code modeling air pollutant releases, fire heat flows and explosion boosting.
Monier, E. and B. C. Weare, 2008: Some statistical diagnostics to evaluate the Madden-Julian Oscillation in the MM5 model, oral presentation, Davis SIAM Student Research Conference, University of Calfifornia, Davis, (May 2008).
Monier, E. and B. C. Weare, 2007: Influence of the initial and boundary conditions input dataset on the MM5 simulation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation, poster presentation, MJO Workshop: New Approaches to Meet the Challenge of the Madden-Julian Oscillation, University of California, Irvine, (November 2007).
Abstract | Poster
Committee appointments:
- Atmospheric Science Space Committee, (2005-present)
- Atmospheric Science Computer Committee, (2007-present)
Graduate Student Association (GSA) Representative, Atmospheric Science Program, UC Davis, (2005-2006).
Treasurer of TVn7, the audiovisual association of the engineering school ENSEEIHT (budget of 20 keuros), (2001-2002).
FRENCH: Native Speaker
ENGLISH: Fluent (TOEIC: 955/990, TOEFL: 273/300 and studying in the United States of America since September 2003)
GERMAN: Basic Notions
CHINESE (Mandarin): Basic Notions
SYSTEMS: Windows, MacOS, Unix/Linux
LANGUAGES: C++, Visual Basic, Fortran, (X)HTML, PHP, NCL
MODELING TOOLS: Fluent, SIC, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, TELEMAC System, MM5, WRF
