About

Jackson is an atmospheric researcher by training with works in polar cloud-microphysics, atmospheric turbulence, and global climate modeling. His areas of interest within these research topics include field study, numerical analysis as it relates to in-cloud processes, high performance computing, and advocacy for diversity in higher education. This work has led him to build backcountry weather stations for fire weather observation, participate in aircraft based microphysics research campaigns, conduct statistical numerical model improvement studies, and participate on-call response to large-scale wildfire incidents. He earned his B.s. in Meteorology from San Jose State University, his M.s. in Atmospheric Science at The University of Utah and is currently a PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah studying fluid turbulence in the planetary boundary layer.

Jackson’s professional and personal interests are very deeply coupled in his life, with weather and alpinism being his two predominant passions. In those areas he is strongly interested in the role that sport can play in the role of scientific research and is a staunch advocate for diversity in mountain sports and in higher education. He sees the intersectionality of these two areas as an area that both need to sustain an influx of interested individuals working to solve the greater problems that humanity faces. Please reach out with interest in either area, sports or science, at Jackson.Yip@utah.edu