Come on out and watch our first-year students (rising second years) give short presentations on their ongoing research. The speaker schedule is below.

8:30   Refreshments in the Joel N. Myers Weather Center
9:00   James Marlow – “How do we use numerical weather models to measure methane emissions from oil and gas production basins?” (Davis)
9:15   Jacob Tindan – “Evaluating WRF-CHEM Simulations of Saharan dust for the periods of 1981-2010 and 2041-2060 using NCEP, ECMWF reanalyses, and the CMIP6 MPI model” (Jenkins)
9:30   Pin-Chun Huang – “Understanding Precipitation Variation with ENSO from General Circulation Perspective” (Lee)
9:45   Wing Him (Kinen) Kao – “Exploring the Extratropical Transition of Atlantic Hurricanes in Climate Simulations” (Zarzycki)
10:00   Laura Helock – “Characteristics of Simulated Tropical Cyclone Supercells” (Peters)
10:15   Kyle Hunt – “The Effects of Numerically Simulated Convective Storms on their Environment” (Markowski)
10:30   Brandon Garcia – “Differentiating Between Tornadic and Non-Tornadic Synoptic Environments Using Self-Organizing Maps” (Markowski, Bowley)
10:45   Break (Refreshments in the Joel N. Myers Weather Center)
11:05   Quinn Mulhern – “An Investigation of Subsiding Shells Associated with Deep Moist Convection in Idealized Simulations” (Peters)
11:20   Sam Brandt – “Sources of Momentum for Near-Surface Downdrafts in Simulations of Supercell Thunderstorms” (Peters)
11:35   Kiley Allen – “The Sensitivity of Storm Simulations to Near-Surface Turbulence” (Markowski, Pan)
11:50   Da-Kai Peng – “Comparing Practical Methods of Estimating Convection Velocities of Atmospheric Turbulence” (Pan)
12:05   Anna Van Alstine – “Relating Polarimetric Radar Measurements to QLCS Cold Pool Properties and Damage Potential” (Kumjian)
12:20   Lydia Spychalla – “A Statistical Approach to Physics-Based Hail Modeling” (Kumjian)