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503 Walker Building
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Name
Thesis Title

Date of Defense
dd/mm/yyyy
Location

MS or PhD
Sheridan, Lindsay "Deposition Coefficient and Habit Influences on Cirriform Cloud Properties"
06/20/2008
112 Walker
1:00 p.m.
M.S.
Edson, Adam "Atmospheric circulations of Earth-like planets orbiting low mass stars"
12/20/2007
529 Walker
1:00 p.m.
Pre-Defense
Petters, Jonathan "The impact of multi-dimensional radiative transfer on modeled cloud dynamics"
12/12/2007
529 Walker
3:00 p.m.
Ph.D.
Oral Comp
Majcen, Mario "High Resolution dual-Doppler Observations of the Low-Level Wind Fields of Nontornadic Supercell Thunderstorms"
12/11/2007
529 Walker
9:30 a.m.
Ph.D.
Oral Comp
Fan, Fangxing "Projecting Future Changes in the Asian summer Monsoon"
11/16/2007
529 Walker
9:00 a.m.
Ph.D.
Oral Comp.
Yorks, John "The Variability of Free-Tropospheric and Boundary Layer Ozone at Beltsville, MD"
11/13/2007
529 Walker
10:00 a.m.
M.S..
Beyer-Lout, Anke "Concentration Assimilation into Wind Field Models for Dispersion Modeling"
11/12/2007
529 Walker
10:00 a.m.
M.S.
Kolczynski, Walter "Short-Range Ensemble Forecast Variance Califbration and Its Impact on Dispersion Calculations in SCIPUFF"
11/9/2007
529 Walker
1:30 p.m.
M.S.
Reen, Brian "Data Assimilation Strategies and Land-Surface Heterogeneity Efffects in the Planetary Boundary Layer"
09/28/2007
529 Walker
9:00 a.m.
Ph.D.
Fisher, Caren "Remote Sensing of High Latitude Open Cell Convection"
09/07/2007
529 Walker
2:30 p.m.
M.S.
Johnson, Nathaniel "Investigating Variability of the Arctic Climate System with Self-Organizing Maps"
08/21/2007
529 Walker
1:30 p.m.
Ph.D.
Oral Comp.
Avramov, Alexander "Simulations of Aerosol, Microphysical and Coastal Influences on Arctic Mixed-Phase Clouds"
08/20/2007
592 Walker
10:00 a.m.
Ph.D.
Oral Comp.
Marquis, James "The Maintenance of Tornadoes Observed with High-Resolution Mobile Doppler Radars"
08/17/2007
529 Walker
10:00 a.m.
Ph.D.
Oral Comp.
Haqq-Misra, Jacob "A Revised, Hazy Methane Greenhouse for the Archean Earth"
08/22/2007
529 Walker
11:00 a.m.
MS
Mao, Jingqiu "Measurement and Modeling of OH Reactivity in the Atmosphere"
08/06/2007
529 Walker
1:30 p.m.
Ph.D.
Shelow, David "Tropical Temperature and Ozone variability Identified by EOF Analysis of Radiosonde and Ozonesonde Data"
07/20/2007
529 Walker
9:00 a.m.
MS
Kang, Eunha "Introducing the concept of Potential Aerosol Mass (PAM)"
06/29/2007
592 Walker
1:00 p.m.
Ph.D.
Lee, Jared "Improving Predictions of Contaminant Dispersion with SCIPUFF Using Meteorological Ensemble Uncertainty"
6/11/2007
 529 Walker
10:00 a.m.
MS
Smith, Jonathan "A Comparison of Nonlinear Compressible Atmospheres to Thermal Forcing"
04/17/2007
529 Walker
2:30 p.m.
MS
Loucks, Amber        
Huff, Amy "A Statistical Analysis of the Summer 2005 NOAA-EPA National Air Quality Forecasting System in Philadelphia"
04/10/2007
529 Walker
4:00 p.m.
MS
Root, Margaret "Determining the Major Oxidants in an Environmental Chamber"
04/09/2007
529 Walker
11:30 a.m.
MS
Veren, Daniel "Statistical Analysis of Ensemble Forecasts of the Structural Evolution of Typhoon Tokage (2004) through Extratropical Transition"
04/09/2007

529 Walker
1:00 p.m.
MS
Sears-Collins, Addison L. "An Analysis of the Robustness and Relevance of Meteorological Triggers for Catastrophe Bonds"
03/04/2007
529 Walker
3:30 p.m.
MS
Kang, Song-Lak "The Effects of Mesoscale Surfae Heterogeneity on the Fair-Weather Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL)
7/03/2007
592 Walker
1:30 p.m.
Ph.D.
Yannuzzi, Victor T. "A Statistical Comparison of Forecasting Models Across the North Slope of Alaska During the Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment"
09/03/2007
529 Walker
9:00 a.m.
MS
Michaels, Shannon "A Trend Analysis in Mid-Atlantic Surface Ozone"
14/11/2006
529 Walker
9:30 a.m.
MS
Beatty, Chris "A Study of Ozone Production in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer from Aircraft Measurements"
13/11/2006
529 Walker
3:30 p.m.
MS
Kelly, Mark "Large-eddy simulation studies of sea spray in the hurricane atmospheric boundary layer."
22/08/2006
529 Walker
1:00 p.m.
PhD
Moyer, Adam "Determination of Observed Gale Radius Statistics for North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones"
24/07/2006
529 Walker
9:00 a.m.
MS
Zielonka, Jeff "A Year-Long Gulf Coast Mesoscale Modeling Study for Improving Meteorological Inputs for Air Quality Models"
18/07/2006
529 Walker
9:30 a.m.
MS