Congratulations to our three graduating seniors in the Environment Analytics research group!
Top Photo: Cameron Gilbert (Meteorology)-magna cum laude and MEAS Outstanding Senior in Atmospheric Sciences, McKenzie Sevier (Meteorology)-summa cum laude. Bottom Photo: Nathan Fault (Physics)-summa cum laude and Physics Honors.
Happiness Mpunza celebrates after the successful oral defense of her M.S. thesis in Atmospheric Sciences, “Assessment of the Accuracy of Numerical Weather Prediction Models in Africa and South America Using Surface Observations” on 1 May 2025.
For the 2025 NCSU Reach for the Stars STEM Fair on 12 April 2025, Wayne Johnson and Rebecca Moore developed a learning activity featuring photographs of real snow and 3D models of ice crystals. The activity lets students see how the shapes of growing snow crystals vary with air temperature. More complicated 3D shapes grow at colder temperatures near the top of the cloud and simpler shapes grow at warmer temperatures closer to the ground.
Environment Analytics Research Group members presented several posters at the 2025 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Undergraduates Nathan Faulk, Cameron Gilbert, Rebecca Moore and Wayne Johnson presented their grant-related work at the AMS Student Conference.
McKenzie Sevier presented work done during her summer internship at the US Navy Dahlgreen Naval Surface Warfare Center.
Graduate student Warren Lewis presented at the AMS 29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP).
Tool development for analysis of boundary layer characteristics using LiDAR
poster by Nathan Faulk
Steps towards a simple neural network to improve GFS temperature and dewpoint forecasts
poster by Cameron Gilbert
Observed ambient conditions in winter storm cloud sandwiches
poster by Wayne Johnson
Observed ice crystal characteristics and atmospheric conditions near cloud top in Northeast U.S. winter storms
poster by Rebecca Moore
Evaluation of global reanalysis strengths and weaknesses using surface observations
poster by Warren Lewis
Rebecca Moore, Nathan Faulk, Wayne Johnson, and Cameron Gilbert presented posters on their research on 26 July 2024 at the NCSU Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Luke Allen celebrates after the successful oral defense of his Ph.D. thesis in Geospatial Analytics, “Observed mesoscale surface air pressure waves and in-cloud characteristics in the context of winter storm structures” on 13 June 2024. video of presentation
Congratulations to graduating seniors in the Environment Analytics research group!
Jordan Fritz-magna cum laude and College Honors, Logan McLaurin-summa cum laude and MEAS Outstanding Senior in Meteorology, Declan Crowe-summa sum laude and College Honors
Laura Tomkins celebrating her successful oral defense of her Ph.D.in Geospatial Analytics, “Synthesis of radar-observed characteristics, storm structures, and surface snowfall rates in 10+ years of Northeast US winter storms” on 1 March 2024.
video of presentation
Dr. Matthew Miller was interviewed for an article about our interdisciplinary work to use weather instruments to help detect moth migrations.
