Brad Marston

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J. Brad Marston
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater California Institute of Technology (B.S.), [1] Princeton University (Ph.D.) [1]
Known forCumulant expansions in geophysical flows, quantum-climate intersections, atmospheric teleconnections, generalized quasilinear approximation
Awards APS Fellow, [1] NSF American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellow [1]
Scientific career
Fields Physics
Institutions Brown University [1]

J. Brad Marston is an American physicist and professor of physics at Brown University. He has applied cumulant expansion methods to atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, bridging quantum physics with climate science, and advancing statistical mechanics approaches to geophysical flows, including the study of atmospheric teleconnections. [2] He is president-elect of the American Physical Society. [1] [3]

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Education and career

Marston attended California Institute of Technology, earning a B.S. in physics in 1984. He then attended Princeton University, where he was advised by Ian Affleck, and obtained a Ph.D. in physics (1989). After postdoctoral work at Cornell University with Barbara Cooper and Chris Henley, he took a position at Brown University where he is now a professor of physics. He has also held visiting positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, ENS-Lyon, and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. [4]

Honors and awards

Marston is a fellow of the American Physical Society (2013). [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Brad Marston". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2025-07-25.
  2. Visconti, Guido (2021-04-14). Climate, Planetary and Evolutionary Sciences: A Machine-Generated Literature Overview. Springer Nature. p. 156. ISBN   978-3-030-74713-8. ... Brad Marston of Brown University using the Direct Statistical Simulation (DSS) that however revealed a few problems as envisaged by Lorenz in the same monograph. [DSS] can be very effective for problems where the original equations are ...
  3. "Brown physicist Brad Marston elected to presidential line of the American Physical Society | Brown University". Brown University. 2025-07-18. Retrieved 2025-07-25.
  4. "John Bradley Marston - Professor of Physics". Researchers@Brown. Retrieved Jul 30, 2025.