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
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
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
Piece on NPR All Things Considered that aired on Christmas Day 2023 features an interview with Dr. Yuter
How big can an individual snow crystal versus a “puff ball” of separate crystals get?
Dr. Yuter presented an online seminar on 4 December 2023 at the University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center Seminar Series.
seminar recording
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.
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.
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.
Laura Kent celebrates her successful oral defense on 5 August 2021 of her Master’s thesis “Multi-year Analysis of Ice Streamers Within Coastal Northeast US Winter Storms”.
