Currently an Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University (8/2023) ~~~聽Brief Bio: Soon-to-be-Dr. Will Rush will join the Oceans and Climate Lab in Fall 2022 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate through a from the NSF Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change () program. Will is currently completing his Ph.D. in , where his research is focused on the interface between climate model analysis and paleoclimate proxy interpretation, primarily focused on hydroclimatic changes. This fall, Will will join a collaborative team of researchers at CIRES, Yale (), WHOI (), and NOAA () to investigate the influence of ice sheets and ocean-atmosphere interaction on the hydroclimate of the western United States during the Last Glacial Maximum, primarily through the use of coupled climate model simulations.