The Stuecker Climate Dynamics lab is working on various aspects of climate variability and change in the past, present, and future. These range from regional to global scales, from the tropics to the poles. Much of our work is centered on the climate of the Pacific, the largest ocean and home to Hawaiʻi and our University.

Please contact me regarding potential opportunities to join the group as a student/postdoc. I encourage prospective students and postdocs to apply to several fellowships available in our field (e.g., NSF, NOAA C&GC).


Biography

 Malte Stuecker received his PhD in Meteorology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) in 2015. He had appointments as a postdoctoral fellow in the UHM Department of Atmospheric Sciences, as a NOAA Climate & Global Change postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, and as a project leader and research professor at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) in South Korea. In 2020 he returned to UHM as an assistant professor in Oceanography, receiving early tenure and promotion to associate professor in 2024. Since 2025 he is the director of the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), the hub of climate system science at UHM.

Malte Stuecker is a Fellow of the of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He received the James B. Macelwane Medal from the AGU in 2024 and the Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award from the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in 2026. In 2024 he also received the University of Hawaiʻi Regents' Medal for Excellence in Research. Other recognitions include the Early Career Scientist Medal in Physical Oceanography from the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO) in 2023, an NSF CAREER award in 2022, the Kamide Lecture Award from the Atmospheric Sciences section of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) in 2020, a Future Leaders Program Fellowship of the Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum in Kyoto (Japan) in 2018, and the Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL) division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in 2016.
 
He has published over 110 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on the physics of air-sea interactions, the dynamics of climate variability and change, as well as their impacts on the various elements of the Earth system and human society. Malte Stuecker serves on various national and international committees, including for the Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change program (CLIVAR), the AGU College of Fellows, and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). He regularly organizes conference sessions, workshops, and symposia.


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Dr. Malte F. Stuecker

Associate Professor,
Director

Department of Oceanography & International Pacific Research Center (IPRC)

School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST)

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa



   



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