Real snow shapes for K-12 outreach

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.

EA group members present posters at American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

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