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
Category: Research Group News
Using ceilometers to detect moth migrations
Dr. Matthew Miller was interviewed for an article about our interdisciplinary work to use weather instruments to help detect moth migrations.
Burris Ph.D. defense presentation
Kevin Burris celebrates his successful oral defense of his Ph.D. thesis “Examining Winter Storm Structures with High-Resolution Observed Profiles” on 15 May 2023.
New Visualization Tool Helps Weather Forecasters and Researchers More Easily Identify and Study Bands of Heavy Snow
Laura Tomkins’ recently published paper, Tomkins et al. 2002 AMT, on image muting was featured in the Center for Geospatial Analytics New Research Spotlight
Time sequence of image muting on radar data.
2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium
Logan McLaurin, Declan Crowe, and Jordan Fritz presenting their posters at the NCSU Undergraduate Research Summer Symposium on 26 July 2022.
Their posters are accessible here.
NASA IMPACTS field program winter 2022
During January 2022, group members Matthew Miller, Kevin Burris, Luke Allen, Laura Tomkins, and Sandra Yuter all had key roles in the NASA Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) field program.
An article about the research flight on 29 Jan 2022 during an east coast blizzard was published in Popular Science.
Yuter elected to UCAR Board of Trustees
Distinguished Professor Sandra Yuter has been elected to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Board of Trustees for a 3-year term starting in February 2021. UCAR manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado as well as community programs focused on earth observations and data services (UNIDATA and COSMIC), education and training (GLOBE, SciEd, COMET), research to operations (JCSDA), and scientific partnerships (CPAESS).
NASA Image of the Day “Nighttime Waves Over the South Atlantic”
Environment Analytics research group’s work was featured in a NASA Image of the Day “Nighttime Waves Over the South Atlantic”
NASA IMPACTS Winter 2020 field phase begins
During January and February 2020, group members Matthew Miller, Sandra Yuter, Laura Tomkins, Ronak Patel, and Daniel Hueholt will spend time at NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia supporting mission science and forecasting for the NASA Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) field program. Matthew Miller will also go to Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia to work in mission science support for the NASA ER-2 aircraft. Image: Meteorology majors Daniel Hueholt and Ronak Patel standing in front of the P3 research aircraft at NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility. Both students did winter storm forecasting and P3 aircraft data collection for the NASA IMPACTS field program.
July 2019 Conferences
Laura Tomkins and Spencer Rhodes in Savannah, Georgia for the AMS Mesoscale Conference.
Group members presented their research at two conferences in July.
Matthew Miller presented a poster on the influence of gravity waves on clouds and precipitation at the Gordon Research Conference on Climate and Radiation in Lewiston, ME.
At the 18th AMS Mesoscale Processes Conference, Spencer Rhodes and Laura Tomkins presented talks describing their respective M.S. thesis research on cloud-eroding boundaries in the southeast Atlantic. Sandra Yuter presented a talk on local environments for ice growth in storms.