December 9-13:Steve, IT, Brenda, Jennie, Peter, and Bee present at the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in Washington, DC.
The group at Brenda's TIME-SLICE poster
Steve explaining his TRACER RAMS simulations
Jennie's talk on ice microphysics in anvils
IT's poster on envrionmental variability
Bee's presentation on deforestation effects on clouds
November 13-15: The 2024 INCUS Science Team Meeting takes place in the CIRA Commons at CSU. The INCUS Mission, led by Sue, will use three satellites to measure vertical velocity in storms. Scientists from around the globe gathered to discuss topics ranging from the progress of the mission, the INCUS algorithm, variability in convective environments, controls on anvil clouds, what we will learn from INCUS, and more!
Rachael showing her work on overshooting tops.
Bee discussing the effect of model grid spacing.
Group photo!
September 9:Brenda participated in the 12th European Radar Conference (ERAD) in Rome, Italy. She showcased INCUS work with a talk and highlighted SEA-POL's adventures on a poster. The conference brought together over 400 researchers on radar meteorology from across the globe, primarily from Europe and North America. It was truly a unique venue, with a giant mural behind the oral presentations and a poster hall in a Museum of Classical Art.
Brenda giving her INCUS talk in front of a Roman mural.
Brenda's SEA-POL poster hanging out with some Roman Art.
September 3:Bee, Nick, Christine, Rachael, and Phoebe all participate in a visit to the department by US Senator John Hickenlooper. van den Heever group members helped prepare a radiosonde which the senator launched and flew one of our drones in a demonstration. Read more about Senator Hickenlooper's visit in the Fort Collins Coloradoan.
Bee discussing the radiosonde with Senator Hickenlooper.
Nick and Christine showing Senator Hickenlooper a drone.
Group photo taken by drone!
July 15-19:Sue, Peter, Bee, and Charles attend the International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP) conference in Jeju, South Korea!
Peter presenting on the timescale of cloud processes.
Bee presenting on model resolution effects.
Sue presenting on INCUS.
Charles presenting on bioaerosol transport.
Group photo!
May 6: An update on the INCUS mission, which is led by Sue, is published in SOURCE. INCUS passed a review by NASA in November and is now in the construction phase! On top of these hardware efforts, many members of the van den Heever group are hard at work developing software for the mission.
March 1:Christine wins a second place Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the High Plains AMS/NWA Conference. Her talk titled “Cold Pool Trains in the Colorado Plains” discussed the effects of the passage of successive cold pools which do not collide (a cold pool train). Christine found that cold pool trains are highly variable, that the first cold pool in a train can stratify the environment and thus speed up the second cold pool, and that the time between passage of cold pools in a train is critical. Congratulations Christine! This is her second student presentation award!
Christine presenting her talk!
February 29 - March 1:Christine, Rachael, and Nick all attend the High Plains AMS/NWA Conference in North Platte.
Jaunary 29 - February 2:Sue, Jennie, IT, and Charles all attend AMS in Baltimore.
December 13:Bee's research on the impact of Southeast Asian deforestation on clouds is highlighted in an EOS article.
December 4:Ben successfully (and musically) defends his master's thesis “Effects of Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions Within Two Convective Storm Regimes”. Congratulations Ben! Ben will now be pursuing his PhD at Ludwig Maximilian University in Germany!
October 2:Bee and Nick launch a radiosonde as a demonstration for an undergraduate atmospheric science class at CSU. Thank you to the class TAs Ivy Glade and Lexi Sherman for inviting us!
Bee and Nick talking to the class about radiosondes.
Bee and Nick preparing the balloon.
September 8:Christine successfully defends her master's thesis “Cold Pool Train Dynamics and Transport”. Congratulations Christine! Christine will be staying in the group to pursue her PhD!
August 28-31:Sue, Randy, and Brenda attend the AMS 40th Conference on Radar Meteorology in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sue's presentation discussed the observational capabilities and scientific approach of the INCUS mission. Randy presented work using GPM data to develop a new Ka only machine learning classifier of multiple scattering events. Brenda presented on using ground-based radar to validate the INCUS delta-t technique.
Brenda (leftmost) on a panel at the Radar Conference.
Sue's keynote at the Radar Conference.
August 30:Randy wins an AMS Editor's Award for his reviews in Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems and Weather and Forecasting. The award was given "For providing thorough, excellent, prompt, and constructive reviews that help the authors improve their papers". Way to go Randy!
August 21-25:Bee attends the NASA Summer School on Satellite Observations and Climate Models organized by JPL and Caltech. Bee was one of 24 graduate students and postdoctoral scientists selected for the week-long program involving lectures and discussion on the future of climate science.
Group photo from the summer school.
August 24:Leah wins an Early Career Outstanding Presentation Award for her presentation "Variability Within and Among Midlatitude Cold Pools" at the AMS Mesoscale Conference. Using data collected during C3LOUD-Ex and BACS, Leah showed that the vertical structure of temperature and winds in cold pools differs between different types of parent convection. Water vapor mixing ratio perturbations in these midlatitude cold pools can be positive, negative, or even change sign with height. Leah also presented results from the FESSTVaL field campaign and model simulations which show that cold pools enhance the spatial variability of temperature. Congratulations Leah!
August 21: With the start of the fall semester, we welcome Rachael Auth to the group as a new master's student! Rachael joins us from the University of Oklahoma, where she received her BS. At OU, Rachael worked with Cameron Homeyer on measuring stratosphere-to-troposphere transport using ozonesondes.
July 21:Ben and Nick both win Outstanding Student Presentation Awards for their oral presentations at the 20th AMS Conference on Mesoscale Processes. This is a very proud day for our research group! Ben's talk showed that differential heating from land surface heterogeneities can create boundary layer convergence lines. This convergence preferentially initiates convection at the boundary between different land surfaces. Accumulated rainfall is increased and more spatially variable compared to a uniform land surface. The impacts of topographic slope and surface roughness on haboobs were discussed in Nick's talk. Steeper slopes drive stronger mountain-valley circulations leading to faster uphill propagation and slower downhill propagation of haboobs. Increased surface roughness slowed haboobs due to greater surface heat and momentum fluxes.Congratulations Nick and Ben!!
July 17-21:Ben, Christine, Leah, Nick, and Peter all attend the 20th AMS Conference on Mesoscale Processes in Madison, Wisconsin. Research presented included modeling studies supporting the INCUS mission and TRACER field campaign, along with results from BACS and C3LOUD-Ex.
van den Heever group members in Madison!
Ben discusses land surface impacts on sea breezes.
Nick shows the impact of roughness length on surface fluxes.
Christine demostrates an example of a cold pool train.
Peter explains the capabilites of INCUS instruments.
Leah presents BACS and C3LOUD-Ex results.
June 26:Sue, Steve, and group alum Aryeh are all highlighted in an article discussing their participation in the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). Research conducted by Sue, Peter, and others helped form the foundation of the experiment. Steve is working as a part of a model intercomparison project looking at aerosol-convection interactions. Aryeh was part of the forecasting team, and is now helping to lead a paper on that subject.
June 16: BACS-II enters its final week already a huge success! With storms and cold pools occurring every deployment day so far, the drones and sondes team has gathered lots of fascinating data. Here's to the last week continuing this trend!
A rainbow observed during BACS-II as a storm was passing.
BACS-II team members carefully watching radar.
Click to see a time lapse of storms from one of our deployments!
May 30:Bee, Ben, Christine, Nick, Charles, Leah, Allie Mazurek, Lexi Sherman, Tyler Barbero, and Jacob Escobedo are the drones and sondes team for BACS-II! Along with observations from aerosol and chemisty teams, we are spending May and June sampling cold pools with radiosondes and drones to understand how bioaerosols are lofted and vertically distributed by storms, along with potential feedbacks.
Team members holding a balloon to prevent it popping in high winds.
Remote pilots during a coordinated drone flight.
Group photo of the drones and sondes team.
May 20: Colorado State University celebrates Women in Aerospace Day by honoring amazing female faculty, staff, and students making aerospace history. Included among them is Sue, the PI of INCUS and the first woman to lead a NASA Earth Venture Mission.
Photos of CSU's incredible women in aerospace.
April 22:Bee, Ben, Christine, Nick, Charles, and Jennie all participate in the Little Shop of Physics, along with many other volunteers from Atmospheric Science. We used fun demos to introduce our science to K-12 students.
From left to right: Nicole (Pierce Group), Jennie, Christine, and Lexi (Rasmussen Group) at the Little Shop of Physics.
Charles (foreground) and Nick (background, Kummerow Group) showing off the can crush demonstration.
Ben conducting the air pressure ruler demonstration.
April 21:Bee receives the Herbert Riehl Memorial Award for her paper “Aerosol breezes drive cloud and precipitation increases” recently published in Nature Communications. The Riehl award is given by the department to a masters or early-PhD student who submits the best manuscript for publication in the past 18 months. Bee's research showed how a mesoscale gradient in aerosol could drive a circulation similar to a sea-breeze. Congratulations Bee for receiving this well-earned honor!
Bee's schematic of an aerosol breeze.
March 10:Jennie Bukowski, who received her PhD from the van den Heever group in 2021, re-joins the group as a postdoctoral scholar working on INCUS. Jennie was working as a joint postdoc for UCLA and NCAR. Welcome back to the group Jennie!
February 20:Randy Chase joins the group as a research scientist working on INCUS. Randy joins us from OU where he worked as a postdoc. Welcome to the group Randy!
Febuary 2:Christine wins an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for her talk "Transport and Mixing of Bioaerosols by Successive Cold Pools" given at the 103rd AMS Annual Meeting this January. Christine ran idealized simulations of a squall line case our group observed during BACS-I last year. She found that background aerosols were distributed the most by the passage of an initial cold pool, while aerosols emitted after that initial cold pool can be lofted higher by a succeeding cold pool. Congratulations Christine on this well earned honor!
Christine presenting at AMS.
Febuary 2: Atmospheric science students, including BACS team members Bee, Allie Mazurek from the Schumacher group, and Daniel Veloso-Águila from the Maloney and Rasmussen groups, did an outreach event at AXIS International Academy. Kindergarteners in a Spanish language immersion class got to hear (en español) about extreme weather, climate, and how we use our drones to make measurements in the field!
ATMOS students presenting for the kindergarteners.
Bee preparing a drone to show to the kindergarteners.
January 17: Itinderjot (IT) Singh joins the group as a postdoc working on INCUS. IT joins us from Russ Schumacher's group. Welcome to the group IT!
January 8-12:Bee, Leah, Ben, Peter, Steve, Christine, Nick, Bowen, and new group member IT Singh all attend the 103rd AMS Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. Our group’s presentation topics ranged from the variability of cold pools we have observed during C3LOUD-Ex and BACS, to lake effect snow, to mesoscale circulations driven by aerosols.
Bee presenting her "Aerosol Breeze" research.
Ben speaking at his poster.
Leah presenting reasarch on C3LOUD-Ex and BACS cold pools.
2022
December 29:Rick is featured in the December 2022 edition of “Precip Folks” by the AGU Precipitation Technical Committee. Please read this interesting profile about Rick and his activities both inside and outside the department!
December 7-10:Sue, Leah, and Nick attend a workshop on cold pools held at Schloss Ringberg near Munich, Germany.
December 7:Bee is awarded the David L. Dietrich Honorary Scholarship. The Dietrich Scholarship is awarded annually to a student who has demonstrated outstanding research and education in the study of air quality.
December 1: Bastian Kirsch departs back home to Hamburg, Germany after visiting our group for over a month. We had many great discussions about cold pools, and will continue our collaboration virtually! Thanks for visiting Bastian, we hope to see you again soon!
October 25: Bastian Kirsch begins a visit to our group which will last the next few weeks. Bastian recently received his PhD from the University of Hamburg and the Max Plank Institute for Meteorology, working on high spatial resolution cold pool observations from the FESSTVaL field campaign. Welcome Bastian!
October 11-13: The 2022 INCUS Science Team Meeting takes place at the new CIRA Commons building on the hill. Over 30 presenters from across Colorado, the US, and the world discussed a variety of critical topics including the algorithmic approach, lessons from previous satellite missions, relevant field campaign observations, mission modeling, the data center approach, and what we will learn from INCUS. On Tuesday evening, a reception and dinner was held at the Canvas Stadium Club where CSU President Rick Miranda, INCUS Program Executive Ben Kim, INCUS PI Sue van den Heever, Chief Scientist of JPL's Earth Science and Technology Directorate Duane Waliser, WSCOE Dean David McLean, and Department Head Eric Maloney all spoke. Between the meeting and dinner, there were around 100 total attendees! Read a SOURCE article about the meeting here.
Group photo of science team meeting participants taken at the department.
Group photo taken at Canvas Stadium during the dinner reception.
Sue speaks at the dinner reception.
October 5: Atmospheric science students, including Bee and Nick, participate in an outreach event were we discussed our research with members of the local Rotary Club.
Atmospheric science students after the rotary club outreach event.
September 1:Bee successfully defends her master's thesis titled "Processes Driving Shallow Convective Development and Their Interactions with Aerosols: Aerosol Transport and Aerosol Breezes"! Congratulations Bee! Bee will continue in the group as a PhD student.
August 22: With the start of the fall semester, the van den Heever group welcomes many new members (several of which joined our group over the summer)! Dr. Peter Marinescu, who received his PhD from the van den Heever group in 2020, re-joins us to work as a Research Scientist on INCUS following a postdoc position CIRA. Dr. Brenda Dolan also joins us part time as an INCUS Research Scientist, while also working the research groups of Professors Michael Bell and Kristen Rasmussen. Brenda previously worked in Professor Steve Rutledge's group. Rick Schulte, who recently received his PhD from from Chris Kummerow's group, is working as a postdoctoral fellow, and is supported by both INCUS and CloudSat. Charles Davis received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania and was recently working at the California Policy Lab, before starting this semester as an MS student in our group. Finally, Dr. Katy Burger joins our group as a research associate working on INCUS. We extend a warm welcome to all of the new van den Heever group members!
August 8-12:Ben, Bee, Rick, Steve, Sean, and Bowen (pictured in order below) present at and attend the AMS Collective Madison Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin.
Group members in Madison, Wisconsin!
July 19: Congratulations are in order for the newly minted Dr. Alex Sokolowsky! Alex successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Morphology, Lifecycles, and Environmental Sensitivities of Tropical Trimodal Convection”.
July 12-14:Sean, Alex, Bee, Sue, and Nick present at the CAMP2Ex Science Team Meeting in Pasadena.
July 8:Sean has accepted a faulty position at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He will start as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in January 2023. Congratulations Sean!!
June 23:Sean successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Examining the Impacts of Convective Environments on Storms Using Observations and Numerical Models”! Congratulations to the new Dr. Freeman! Sean is now a postdoctoral student working on the INCUS project.
May 24:Bee wins a prestigious Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Fellowship. Read more here. Congratulations Bee for this well-earned honor!
Bee, recipient of a NASA FINESST Fellowship!
May 24: On the first IOP of the BACS field campaign, two cold pools were extensively sampled by the team with drones and radiosondes. We hope to have many more great cases like this over the next few weeks!
Leah (center) has a discussion with Claudia (Kreidenweis Group).
Bee, Nick, and Christine (left to right) prepare drones for sampling.
Ben (left) and Sean (right) prepare a drone with an advancing cold pool in the background.
May 2:Sue receives the George T. Abell Award for Outstanding Research Faculty from the CSU Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering. The award citation reads, ”In recognition of wide-ranging and high-impact studies of the development and impacts of atmospheric convective storms through numerical simulations as well as in situ and remote sensing observations, including leadership of the new NASA INCUS satellite mission.” Congratulations Sue! See also this department news story.
April 23:Bee, Ben, Sean, and Nick, along with many other atmospheric science students, participate in the Little Shop of Physics to introduce our science to K-12 students.
Ben demonstrates a packet of supercooled liquid at the Little Shop of Physics.
Ben (center) and Bee (facing away) discuss one of our drones at the Little Shop of Physics.
Eric Goldestern (Kummerow Group, left) and Nick (right) at the Little Shop of Physics.
April 14: Read about how the INCUS mission, led by Sue, is the latest in a storied history of satellite missions led by CSU faculty and staff here.
April 1:Sue is elected to the rank of University Distinguished Professor (UDP), the highest academic recognition awarded by Colorado State University. There are only about 20 UDPs across all of CSU. Congratulations to Sue for this well-earned honor! Read more here.
Picture taken by done of Loveland HS students and BACS team members.
March 28: BACS team members Bee, Sean, Nick, and Allie Mazurek (Schumacher Group) visited Loveland High School to discuss science and demonstrate the equipment we will use during the upcoming BACS field campaign. We were invited by Lance Niño, a graduate of the CSU Atmospheric Science Department who is now a student teacher at Loveland HS. We launched a radiosonde and flew one of our drones to exhibit how we will take measurements during BACS to two of Lance's meteorology classes along with a third environmental science class. Read more about this outreach event in SOURCE.
February 9: Our C3LOUD-Ex research is featured on the cover of the January 2022 issue of BAMS! Read the full associated article here, and the BAMS digital version with quotes from group members and more beautiful pictures here (access to BAMS required, article starts on page 25). When asked what they would like readers to learn from this article, Sue responded “I would like readers to learn that: (1) The Flying Curtain is a novel and highly effective approach to measure cold pool properties. (2) Cold pools are spatially and temporally heterogeneous on scales of order ~100 m. (3) A combination of instrumentation provides the best results in observing convective updrafts.” While Sean responded “I want readers to know our novel Flying Curtain drone deployment strategy observed that cold pools vary on spatial scales of 100 m to 1 km. This result implies that numerical models hoping to capture cold pool processes must be operated at a grid spacing capable of resolving those features.”
Cover of the January 2022 issue of BAMS
January 28:Bee wins the second place Student Oral Presentation Award at the AMS Mesoscale Processes Conference during the AMS Annual Meeting. Congratulations Bee! Her presentation titled “Updraft Structure and Detrainment in Transient and Terminal Congestus Clouds” investigated the difference between terminal (capped by the freezing level inversion) and transient (overshooting the FL inversion) congestus clouds by tracking and compositing over a thousand updrafts in an idealized LES. Bee's results looked at the differences in terms of vertical acceleration budget as well as the detrainment of aerosol & water vapor from congestus clouds. See the list of all students in the department who won awards at the AMS and AGU meetings here.
January 23-27: At the AMS 2022 Annual Meeting Bowen, Bee, Ben, Sean, Alex, Steve, and Sue present on topics ranging from tobac, use of GPUs in atmospheric modeling, and cloud-aerosol interactions in the Philippines and West Africa.
December 13-17: At the AGU 2021 Fall Meeting Bowen, Bee, Nick, and Sean present in person in New Orleans, while Alex, Leah, and Sue present virtually.
November 30: Congratulations to Nick who successfully defended his MS Thesis titled "Strong and Weak Cold Pool Collisions"!
November 5: The Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission, led by Sue van den Heever, was selected as the winner of NASA's Earth Venture Mission-3 AO. The overarching goal of INCUS is to answer the question “Why do convective storms, heavy precipitation and clouds occur exactly when and where they do?”, one of the most important objectives of the National Academies of Science and Engineering 2017-2027 Decadal Survey. The science objectives of the $177 million mission are to determine: (1) the predominant environmental properties controlling the convective mass flux (CMF) in tropical convective storms; (2) the relationship between CMF and high anvil clouds; and (3) the relationship between CMF and the type and intensity of the extreme weather produced. These relationships between CMF and environmental facotrs, high anvil clouds and extreme weather will then be evaluated in weather and climate models. Read more about this project in the NASA press release, and in CSU's SOURCE magazine.. INCUS was also introduced to Vice President Kamala Harris.
November 3: Congratulations to Kristen who successfully defended her MS Thesis titled "Sensitivity of Simulated Microphysics to the Raindrop Distribution Shape Parameter and Comparisons with Observation"!
November 3: The CAMP2Ex Clouds Working Group Talk takes place with Bee and Alex presenting.
Image taken from drone by van den Heever group members training for the upcoming BACS field campaign.
October 30: Bee, Christine, Ben, and Nick pass the FAA part 107 exam to become certified drone pilots in preperation for the upcoming BACS field campaign.
October 13: The CAMP2Ex Regional Meteorology Working Group Talk takes place with Bowen, Nick, and Sean presenting.
August 16: Ben Ascher joins our group as a new MS student. He joins us from Penn State, where he recently graduated, majoring in Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences. Welcome, Ben!
August 4: Christine Neumaier joins our group as a new MS student. She joins us from the University of Washington, where she recently graduated, majoring in Atmospheric Sciences. Welcome, Christine!
August 3: Brittney Smith, an REU student in our group mentored by Nick and Sue gives her presentation at the end of her internship, titled "Cold pools in tropical cyclones and isolated tropical convection." Congratulations Brittney!
July 21: Congratulations to the new Dr. Yasutaka Murakami, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, titled "Exploring Precipitation Processes in Stratocumulus Clouds from Satellite-Derived Cloud Properties."
May 14:Dr. Jennie Bukowski, a recent graduate from our group, is conferred the CSU Department of Atmospheric Science Alumni award for best paper by a PhD student. Jennie received this honor for her manuscript "Direct radiative effects in haboobs," which is currently in review. Congratulations Jennie!
March 23: Christine Neumaier, an incoming MS student who will join us this year, is awarded a CSU Program of Research and Scholarly Excellence (PRSE) award. Congratulations Christine!
January 29: Congratulations to the new Dr. Jennie Bukowski! Jennie successfully defended her PhD dissertation, titled "Mineral Dust Lofting and Interactions with Cold Pools." Jennie starts her new position based out of NCAR as a Postdoctoral Scientist at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability with Dr. Daniel Swain in a few weeks.
January 19:Bee Leung is awarded the CSU College of Engineering Walter Scott, Jr. Fellowship. Congratulations, Bee!
January 15: Congratulations to Sue, who has been named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. AMS Fellows are selected based on their "outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications during a substantial period of years." More information on this can be found at the Department Website
January 11-15:Bowen, Emily, Leah, Nick, Sean, and Sue present at the virtual AMS 2021 Annual Meeting.
December 7-17:Alex, Kristen, Sean, and Sue present at the virtual AGU Fall meeting.
November 20: Congratulations to Sean Freeman, who was awarded the Department of Atmospheric Science Shrake-Culler Scholarship. Sean was awarded this for “his academic achievements, significant contributions to research activities both within ATS and the broader community, and his enthusiasm for graduate education, along with his incredible can-do attitude.” More information can be found on the Department Webpage.
August 28:Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Minnie Park!. Minnie successfully defended her PhD thesis, titled "Environmental Controls and Aerosol Impacts on Tropical Sea Breeze Convection." The new Dr. Park will officially graduate this fall.
August 17: Congratulations to Alex Sokolowsky, who was selected for JPL's (virtual) Summer Climate School. Alex will attend two weeks of lectures from preeminent climate scientists from around the globe and will engage in discussion with other graduate students and postdoctoral scientists on the future of climate science. This year's theme is "Using Satellite Observations to Advance Climate Models". More information can be found here.
New group member Bee Leung serving as a flight scientist on the NASA P-3 during the CAMP2Ex mission. Welcome Bee!
August 15: Welcome to Gabrielle (Bee) Leung, who joins our group as a new M.S. student. Bee joins us from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. Bee participated in the Summer 2019 CAMP2Ex field campaign, where she served as an integral member of the forecasting team, a flight planner, ground scientist, and flight scientist. Welcome Bee!
August 10: Congratulations to recent group alum Aryeh Drager, who starts his new position as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.
August 1: Congratulations to Sue who was named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society! Sue was elected a fellow for her "extensive record of contributions to atmospheric science." Sue will formally receive the honor at next year's virtual American Meteorological Society annual meeting in January 2021. More information can be found on the department website.
May 31: Today, we say bon voyage to Brianna Lund, who leaves us to join the COMET program at UCAR. Congratulations on your new position, Brianna!
May 15: Despite the lack of in-person commencement, the Department is still celebrating our Spring and Summer 2020 graduates, including Dr. Aryeh Drager, Dr. Peter Marinescu, and Minnie Park who will graduate this summer. Included in the article are quotes from each of them featuring the most important thing they learned at CSU. Congratulations Aryeh, Peter, and Minnie!
April 13: Sue has been awarded the MIT Houghton Lectureship for 2021. An article to this effect has been written up on the ATS departmental page.
March 16: Sue has been made a Visiting Professor in Physics at Oxford University.
March 6: There is more good news of graduations! Congratulations to the new Dr. Aryeh Drager who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, "Response of Convective Cold Pools and Precipitation to Changes in Soil Moisture." The new Dr. Drager will graduate in May.
February 29:Jennie, Minnie, Aryeh, Peter, and Leah volunteer at Little Shop of Physics, an event held at CSU annually to showcase STEM to elementary and middle-school aged students. While there, the volunteers from our group showcased one of our drones, demonstrated how clouds form in the presence of supersaturation and CCN, and demonstrated some of the basics of thermodynamics in a fun and exciting way.
February 4: There's a new Dr. in the group! Congratulations to Peter Marinescu who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, "Observations of Aerosol Particles and Deep Convective Updrafts and the Modeling of Their Interactions." The new Dr. Marinescu will officially graduate in May.
January 30: Congratulations to Yasutaka, who successfully defended his MS Thesis, "On the Relation between Satellite Observed Liquid Water Path, Cloud Droplet Number Concentration and Cloud Base Rain Rate and Its Implication for the Auto-Conversion Rate in Stratocumulus Clouds." Yasutaka will stay on in pursuit of his PhD.
January 21: Brianna Lund joins our group as a Research Associate. Brianna joins us from Radiometrics, where she worked in Quality and Customer Support. Welcome Brianna!
January 13-17: Alex, Leah, and Minnie present at the annual American Meteorological Society meeting in Boston.
December 9-13: Bowen, Emily, Sean, Steve, and Sue present at the annual American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
October 15: Edmore Kori, a PhD student from the University of Venda, begins visiting our group for a month. Edmore is studying geomorphology and the combined effects of rain and wind on soil. Welcome Edmore!
October 8: Alex, Sean, and Sue return from the NASA CAMP2Ex field campaign in the Philippines. They spent a combined 18 weeks in Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines to work on this important NASA field campaign in which 19 NASA P-3 flights were conducted. Our group oversaw dropsonde activities and made significant contributions to flight operations, flight planning and data analysis. The field campaign was a tremendous success, providing a suite of observations of the thermodynamic, microphysical, radiative and chemical characteristics of a variety of convective clouds from shallow cumulus to deeper congestus clouds, as well as the environment conditions in which they developed.
The van den Heever group members participating in the field phase of the CAMP2Ex project. From Left: Alex Sokolowsky, Sue van den Heever, and Sean Freeman.
August 31: CAMP2Ex, the field campaign that Alex and Sean are currently deployed on, has been written up on the NASA website and in the Manila Bulletin. Sue is quoted in both articles.
August 19: Alex and Sean depart Colorado for the Philippines to participate in the CAMP2Ex Field Campaign. Sean and Alex will spend the next 7 weeks at Clark International Airport on the island of Luzon in the Philippines flying and dropping dropsondes from the NASA P-3 aircraft and forecasting for the mission. The CAMP2Ex project is designed primarily to examine the impacts of aerosol on clouds and precipitation, and more can be read about the CAMP2Ex campaign here.
August 15: Nick Falk joins our group as a new MS student. Nick comes to us from UC Davis, where he received his BS. Welcome Nick!
August 1: Congratulations to Peter who won the First Place Poster award at the 2019 AMS Mesoscale conference. Peter's poster, titled "The Impacts of Aerosol Particles on Deep Convective Clouds - a Multimodel Assessment", described some of the research he has been conducting as part of the Aerosol, Cloud, Precipitation, and Climate (ACPC) working group.
August 1: Welcome to Bowen Pan, who joins our group as a Postdoctoral fellow. She joins us from Texas A&M, where she recently finished her PhD under the advisement of Renyi Zhang.
July 29-August 2: Jennie, Leah, Minnie, and Peter present at the 2019 AMS Mesoscale conference in Savannah, GA.
July 15-19: Jennie Attends the 2019 Department of Energy Aerosol Summer School at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA.
June 19: Nick Falk, an incoming MS student who will join us in the fall, is awarded the CSU College of Engineering Walter Scott, Jr. Fellowship. Congratulations Nick!
June 18: Congratulations to Jennie who was funded to attend the 2019 Department of Energy Aerosol Summer School. At this workshop, held at the Pacfic Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA over 5 days, Jennie will learn about the state of the science in aerosol formation, characterization, observations, and modeling. More information can be found about the workshop at their website.
June 12: Sean is awarded the NSF Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide travel award. With this award, Sean will travel to Delft Technical University in the Netherlands next spring for three months to work with Prof. Pier Siebesma. While in Delft, Sean and Prof. Siebesma will work on a project investigating mixed-phase clouds with observations and numerical simulations. More information can be found on the department website. Congratulations Sean!
The van den Heever group at the Rockies Weather and Science Day 2019. From Left: Sean Freeman, Kristen Tucker, and Jennie Bukowski.
May 7-9: Aryeh, Emily, and Sue present at the US CLIVAR Workshop in Boulder, CO.
April 24: Jennie, Kristen, and Sean volunteer at the Colorado Rockies Weather and Science Day 2019. The event, which had over 10,000 kids in attendance, was designed to encourage students in kindergarden through high school to consider careers in STEM. Our group's participation in the event was to showcase how we use drones to research the weather. On the day of the event, Sean flew one of our group's drones, funded by Sue's Monfort Professorship, around the infield while Jennie was interviewed by Steve Spangler on stage about the C3LOUD-Ex field campaign and how we use drones to collect data about storms. More information can be found on the SOURCE article.
April 23: Congratulations to Jennie who was funded to attend the AMS Summer Policy Colloquium! Jennie will get an intense experience learning about science policy and politics for ten days in Washington, DC this summer. While in DC, Jennie will meet with politicians, staffers, AMS staff, and more to advance her knowledge. More information can be found on the department website.
April 22-26: Peter and Sue present at the 2019 Aerosol, Cloud, Precipitation, and Climate Working Group (ACPC) meeting in Nanjing, China.
April 2: Congratulations to Peter who was awarded a CSU Graduate Student Council Travel Grant! Peter will be attending the 2019 Aerosol, Cloud, Precipitation, and Climate Working Group (ACPC) meeting in Nanjing, China from April 24-26. More information about ACPC and the upcomming conference can be found on their website.
March 29: Jennie and Sean volunteer with a class visit from Altitude Elementary in the department, showcasing a drone and describing how we observe the weather and improve our scientific knowledge of the atmosphere with drones to over 100 second graders. A full writeup of the day can be found on the department website.
March 5-7: Sean and Sue present at the CAMP2Ex Science Team Meeting. The CAMP2Ex field campaign, scheduled to take place in August and September, is a NASA-sponsonred field campaign based out of the Philippine island of Luzon. The field campaign is designed to measure aerosol, cloud processes, and radiation from the NASA P-3 aircraft. During the field campaign, Alex and Sean will operate the dropsonde system aboard the P-3 aircraft and Sue will serve as a flight scientist, all spending substantial time in Luzon. More information can be found on the CAMP2Ex website.
February 25-28: Leah presents at the 2019 Understanding Clouds and Precipitation conference in Berlin.
February 23: Alex, Aryeh, Jennie, and Sean volunteer at the CSU Little Shop of Physics Open House with equipment from C3LOUD-Ex. Little Shop of Physics is an event targeted at introducing elementary through high school students to Physics and physical sciences, hosted by CSU yearly.
January 17: Kristen Tucker joins our group as a MS student. She joins us from the University of Wyoming and is in the Rutledge and van den Heever groups. Welcome Kristen!
The van den Heever group at Little Shop of Physics 2019: (from far left) Jennie and Aryeh discussing our use of drones in atmospheric science with members of the community.
2018
December 10-14: Aryeh, Ben, Jennie, Leah, Minnie, Sean, Stacey, Steve, and Sue present at the AGU Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Leah gives her first invited presentation, congratulations Leah!
November 12: Congratulations to Ben for defending his Masters thesis entitled "Interactions Between the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Mesoscale to Global Scale Phenomena".
November 9: Stacey is hired at WeatherFlow. We'll miss you Stacey!
October 25: Sue is appointed as co-chair of NASA's Aerosol and Clouds, Convection, and Precipitation (A-CCP) Science Advisory Group, which was written up on the department website. Congratulations Sue!
October 18: Ben returns to Colorado after completing his cruise on the PISTON field campaign. Welcome back Ben!
October 12: Congratulations to Sue for being elected as Secretary of Physics, Dynamics, and Climate for the American Geophysical Union Atmospheric Sciences section for 2019-2020. Sue will begin her term in December at the AGU annual meeting. More information can be found on the department website here.
October 11: Congratulations to Sean for defending his Masters thesis entitled "Assessing the Impacts of Microphysical and Environmental Controls on Simulated Supercell Storms".
September 6: Ben leaves for Palau to participate in the Propagation of Intra-Seasonal Oscillations field campaign. While on the campaign, Ben will be aboard the R/V Roger Revelle in the Pacific Ocean launching soundings from the ship. The goals of the PISTON campaign are to examine the roles of localized features in influencing large-scale intraseasonal oscillations and examining variability in intraseasonal oscillations. More information can be found on the PISTON website.
August 21: Yasutaka Murakami joins our group as a MS student. He joins us from the Japanese Meteorological Agency and is co-advised by Chris Kummerow. Welcome Yasutaka!
August 10: Congratulations to Jennie, Leah, and Peter for being on the CSU Atmospheric Cyclists Bike to Work challenge team, which won the Bike to Work challenge this summer! Jennie, Leah, and Peter joined 38 others from the Department of Atmospheric Science and CIRA to bike 7,367 miles this summer. More information can be found on the department website here.
August 6: Alex Sokolowsky joins our group as a PhD student. He joins us from Pennsylvania State University, where he received his MS. Welcome Alex!
July 14-20 Minnie participates in the Second Department of Energy Advanced Radiation Measurement Summer Training and Science Applications event on Observations and Modeling of Clouds and Precipitation. Minnie spent the week working as part of the "Boundary Layer Cloud Group" investigating "Boundary Layer Structure during Different Cloud Conditions at the ARM Eastern North Atlantic Site". More information about the program can be found here.
July 9-13 Sean and Peter present at the 2018 American Meteorological Society Cloud Physics and Radiation Conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Sean at ASP Summer Colloquium 2018: As part of the program, Sean visited the NEON instruments atop Niwot Ridge. Pictured here is Sean at 11,500 ft in front of an instrumented tower
June 4-15 Sean participates in this year's NCAR Advanced Study Program Summer Colloquium, entitled "Synthesis of Observations and Models in Studies of Shallow and Deep Clouds". Sean spent the two weeks learning and understanding how to use data from the CSET aircraft field campaign and comparing that data to CAM6.
April 20: Congratulations to Ben who won an Oustanding Poster Presentation Award at the 33rd AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology in Ponte Vidra, FL. Ben won for his poster entitled "A Coherent Image of Teleconnections Across the Globe Associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation". More information can be found on the ATS Department Homepage.
April 17: Congratulations to Minnie who was selected to participate in this year's Department of Energy Advanced Radiation Measurement (DOE ARM) Summer Training Event. Minnie will spend a week at the ARM Southern Great Plains site in Oklahoma where she will learn about instrumentation used to observe the atmosphere..
April 16-20: Aryeh, Ben, and Emily present at the 2018 American Meteorological Society Tropical Conference in Ponte Vedra, FL.
Little Shop of Physics 2018: Minnie (rear, in green) discusses how we observe our atmosphere with drones and weather balloons at the CSU Lory Student Center to elementary school students.
April 10: Congratulations to Sean who was selected to participate in this year's NCAR Advanced Study Program Summer Colloquium. Sean will spend two weeks studying at NCAR in June on "Synthesis of Observations and Models in Studies of Shallow and Deep Clouds". More information on the program can be found here.
February 26: Sean, Minnie, Jennie, and Aryeh participated in various outreach activities this weekend with equipment from C3LOUD-Ex. Sean and Minnie went to Rice Elementary's Science Night on Friday February 23 in Wellington, CO, showcasing one of our drones and other weather observation equipment to elementary school students. On Saturday, Aryeh, Jennie, Minnie, and Sean participated in CSU's Little Shop of Physics open house, volunteering in the atmospheric science room. Here, we showed the students (elementary to middle school) and their parents how we collected observations of storms in the field and demonstrated why STEM education is important.
February 20: Sue participates in a panel discussion at the CSU Africa Center entitled "Innovations out of Africa: Technology" discussing the use of technology (including drones and 3D printed weather stations) to improve atmospheric understanding in continental Africa. The panel was written up in the Rocky Mountain Collegianhere.
February 1: Congratulations to Minnie and Peter for winning the student presentation competetion for best oral presentations at the 2018 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Symposium. Minnie won for her presentation "Dependence of Aerosol Transport on Meteorological and Surface Properties within Tropical Sea Breeze Convection", and the recorded presentation is found here. Peter won for his presentation "Comparing the Aerosol Impacts on Deep Convective Updraft Characteristics in Two Cloud-Resolving Models", and the recorded presentation is found here.
January 16: Congratulations to Aryeh who was named a Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering Graduate Teaching Fellow. Aryeh begins his teaching this semester, serving as a teaching assistant in a mechanical engineering class and completing an engineering education research project.
January 10: Congratulations to Sue for being awarded the American Meteorological Society Edward N. Lorenz Teaching Excellence Award. She is being honored "for enduring passion for teaching and mentoring, for engaging students both inside and outside of the classroom, and for unrelenting dedication to training future scientists." Sue was presented with her award at the annual meeting of the AMS in Austin, TX. More information can be found on the department website.
January 8-12: Aryeh, Jennie, Leah, Peter, Minnie, Sean, Steve, Stacey, and Sue present at the 2018 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in Austin, TX.
Graduation Day 2017! From left: Dr. Sue van den Heever, ATS Senior Research Scientist Dr. Paul DeMott, ATS Graduate Dr. Christina McCluskey, and Dr. Leah Grant
December 15: Graduation Day 2017! Dr. Leah Grant graduates with her PhD, pictured to the left. Dr. Grant will continue in our group as a postdoctoral fellow.
December 11-15: Ben and Sue present research at the 2017 American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans, LA.
December 7: Congratulations to Leah Grant for defending her PhD Dissertation, titled "Cold Pool Processes in Different Environments".
December 1: Congratulations to Peter Marinescu for winning the the David L. Dietrich Honorary Scholarship. The Dietrich Scholarship is awared to a CSU student who has demonstrated outstanding ability in air quality research. Peter's award is highlighted on the Department Website
October 11: Sue presented some of the work done with drones from C3LOUD-Ex to a different audience: Teens! Sue, Jennie, and Sean went to the Teen Science Café and showcased some of our work to get young adults interested in science. This presentation was written up on the department webpage and in CSU's student newspaper, the Rocky Mountain Collegian.
October 2: Congratulations to Ben Toms for receiving a MAC Foundation travel grant! Ben will use his travel grant to go to the American Meteorological Society 2018 Tropical Conference.
August 30: PhD Student Peter Marinescu has been named the student member of the American Meteorological Society Committee on Mesoscale Processes. He will serve a two year term on the committee. Congratulations, Peter!
August 15: Our recent C3LOUD-Ex Field Campaign is highlighted in SOURCE, CSU's online news source.
Drone in flight during C3LOUD-Ex
August 2: Max Heikenfeld, a DPhil student in Philip Stier’s group at Oxford, joins us for the next few months to work with our group. Welcome, Max!
July 26: Congratulations to Sue for winning the 2018 American Meteorological Society Edward N. Lorenz Teaching Excellence Award. Her award citation was: "For enduring passion for teaching and mentoring, for engaging students both inside and outside the classroom, and for unrelenting dedication to training future scientists". The award will be presented to her at the 2018 AMS Annual Meeting in January. More information can be found on the department website.
July 10: Stacey Kawecki joins our group as a postdoctoral fellow. She joins us from the University of Michigan, where she received her PhD under the advisement of Allison Steiner. Welcome Stacey!
July 10: Congratulations to Sue for being named the Associate Department Head of Atmospheric Science. She will begin her new position in August.
June 19: Congratulations to Minnie Park for being selected for the NASA JPL Center for Climate Sciences Summer School! She will attend the sessions, this year focused on "Using Satellite Observations to Advance Climate Models" in late August. More information can be found here.
June 13: Our drones will be featured in the upcomming Colorado Weatherfest from 10 am to 2 pm on Saturday, June 24 at the CSU Atmospheric Science campus. More information can be found here.
May 1 - June 9: C3LOUD-Ex Phase 2 takes place, led by Monfort Professor Sue van den Heever. Visit the C3LOUD-Ex website.
May 5: Congratulations to Aryeh Drager for winning the Riehl award. The Riehl award is presented by the Department of Atmospheric Science for the best technical paper arising from MS research and submitted for publication in the referred literature during the previous 18 month period. Aryeh won the award for his paper titled "Characterising Convective Cold Pools". Congratulations Aryeh!
April 12: Ben Toms has been awarded a 2017 DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. According to the Krell Institute, "the DOE CSGF provides outstanding benefits and opportunities to students pursuing doctoral degrees in fields that use high-performance computing to solve complex science and engineering problems." This is only the second DOE CSGF that has been awarded to an ATS student. A detailed description of Ben's award and proposed project can be found on the department's webpage here. Congratulations Ben on achieving this highly prestigious fellowship!
March 30: C3LOUD-Ex is written up in the CSU Magazine.
February 21: Congratulations to Ben Toms who was awarded first place in the Oral Presentation Category at the
33rd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the
American Meteorological Society (AMS) in Seattle.
January 23-26: Aryeh, Ben, Jennie, Minnie, Sue, and our 2016 CMMAP REU student Rachel Phinney all presented research at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in Seattle.
December 12-16: Peter, Steve Saleeby, and Sue all presented research at the 2016 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
December 14: Congratulations to Sue, who was awarded her AGU ASCENT award at the 2016 AGU Fall Meeting.
Her award citation read "For fundamental advances to our understanding of the influence of microphysical processes on
atmospheric convection, and feedback processes". More details can be found here.
December 14: Welcome back to Leah, who returned from her NSF GROW travel with Todd Lane at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
November 21: Congratulations to Sue for being featured
on the US Department of Energy ARM news site for her AGU ASCENT award, which will be presented at the 2016 AGU fall meeting.
November 18: Congratulations to PhD Candidates Aryeh and Peter for passing their PhD preliminary exams.
November 11: Bethan White, the postdoctoral research assistant in Philip Stier's group at the University of Oxford who
has been visiting us for the past two months departs. We'll miss you, Bethan!
November 9: Steve Saleeby has been promoted to Senior Research Associate and Emily has been promoted to Research Associate I. Congratulations, Steve and Emily!
October 6: Congratulations to Aryeh and Peter for winning MAC Foundation travel grants! Peter will be traveling to the 2017 Aerosol, Cloud,
Precipitation, and Climate (ACPC) Working Group Meeting, and Aryeh will be traveling to the AMS 17th Conference on Mesoscale
Processes. Congratulations Aryeh and Peter!
September 22: Bethan White, a postdoctoral research assistant in Philip Stier's group at the University of Oxford, joins us
for the next two months. Welcome Bethan!
August 28: Leah leaves for her NSF GROW travel to work with Todd Lane at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
August 8: Jennie Bukowski joins our group. Before arriving, Jennie was awarded the CSU Atmospheric Science/CIRA Program of Research and Scholarly Excellence scholarship. Congratulations Jennie!
July 25-29: Adele, Sean, and Sue all presented research at the International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation.
July 10-24: C3LOUD-Ex phase 1 took place in Northeastern Colorado. More information about the Monfort-funded field campaign can be found here.
July 21: Aryeh successfully defended his Masters Thesis. Well done and congratulations, Aryeh!
July 1: Sue has been announced as one of the winners of the 2016 ASCENT award from the Atmospheric Sciences section of the AGU. Congratulations, Sue! More information about the award can be found here.
June 22: Adele has been appointed as an Assistant Professor and Assistant Cloud Physicist in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources at the University of California, Davis. Congratulations, Adele!
June 2: Ben has arrived to start research over the summer before classes start in the fall. Welcome to the group, Ben!
Rachel Phinney
May 23: Rachel Phinney, an undergraduate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is here for the summer to work with Peter on MCS research as part of the ESMEI REU program. Welcome, Rachel!
May 26: Leah has been awarded a GROW travel award! With this award, Leah will spend three months at the University of Melbourne working with Todd Lane on cold pools and characteristics of tropical convection. Congratulations, Leah!
Amanda (left) and Adele (right) in their caps, gowns, and hoods after graduation.
May 13: Graduation Day! Congratulations to Amanda, Peter, Michal, and Adele for completing their degrees. Amanda and Adele attended the graduation ceremony on campus and were officially hooded.
May 6: Leah was honored today with the Alumni Award for best paper by a PhD student. Leah is the third student in the history of the department to win both the Riehl and Alumni Awards. Congratulations, Leah!
April 27: Ben has been awarded an AMS Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations, Ben! Read more here.
March 15: Emily received a 2015 Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing from JGR-Atmospheres. Great job, Emily! See the full story here.
February 23: Peter successfully defended his Masters Thesis. Well done and congratulations, Peter!
February 15: Leah presented her cold pool research at the HD(CP)2 conference in Berlin.
February 2: Peter was awarded an OSPA for his presentation at the AMS Annual Meeting. Congratulations, Peter!
January 6: Leah was awarded an OSPA (Outstanding Student Paper Award) for her presentation at the AGU Fall Meeting. Way to go, Leah!
December 14-18: Steve S., Leah, Michal, Adele, Peter, and Sue all presented research at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
December 10: Jungmin Park will be joining our group in January as a new PhD student. We all look forward to welcoming Jungmin to CSU and Fort Collins!
December 1: Adele has officially transitioned to a postdoc position within the group. Everyone is excited that she will be staying with the group for a bit longer!
November 20: Leah wins an early career travel grant to attend the HD(CP)2 Understanding Clouds and Precipitation Conference. Have fun in Berlin, Leah!
November 19: Michal successfully defends her dissertation to complete our trifecta of PhD defenses in the past month. Congratulations, Dr. Clavner!
November 10: Amanda passes her dissertation defense. Congratulations, Dr. Sheffield!
November 5: One of Sue's new projects which will look at aerosol properties and spatial distributions in coastal zones is featured by SOURCE. Read the story here.
November 4: Sean and four other first year atmospheric science graduate students are highlighted in SOURCE for winning five of nine AMS Graduate Fellowships. Read the story here. Congratulations to all the winners!
October 29: Adele successfully defends her PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Adele!
September 8: Leah's UDP award covered by SOURCE. Read the story here.
August 28: Sue wins the Professor of the Year award from the Department of Atmospheric Science. Congratulations, Sue!
August 18: Adele wins a travel grant from the IGBP to attend the AGU Fall Meeting. Congratulations, Adele!
August 17: Sean Freeman joins our group. Before arriving, Sean won both an AMS Graduate Fellowship and an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Welcome and congratulations, Sean!
August 17: Peter and Aryeh begin service as department Graduate Representatives.
August 14: Leah wins the CSU University Distinguished Professors scholarship! The award recognizes her outstanding graduate research record and potential for future leadership and comes with $10,000 to support her research and education. Only one student at CSU is selected to receive this award each year. Congratulations, Leah!
August 12: Adele's international research experience highlighted by SOURCE. Read the story here.
August 12: Josh's paper "Observed and modeled warm rainfall occurrence and its relationships with cloud macrophysical properties" published online by JAS.
August 11: Amanda's paper "Aerosol-induced mechanisms for cumulus congestus growth" in press at JGR.
August 3-7: Aryeh, Leah, and Michal give oral presentations at the AMS Mesoscale Conference which was co-organized this year by Sue. Leah and Adele win travel grants to support their attendance at the meeting.
July 1-10: Peter participates in the field campaign PECAN helping to collect data and launch weather balloons.
May 14: Matt's paper "The relative influence of environmental characteristics on tropical deep convective morphology as observed by CloudSat" is published by JGR.
April 17: Adele is awarded the Alumni Award by the Department of Atmospheric Science for the best published paper by a senior PhD student. Congratulations, Adele!
April 16: Sue named a Monfort Professor by CSU. This is the university's premier recognition of mid-career faculty and she will receive $75,000 per year for two years to further her teaching and research goals. Read more about the story on SOURCE. Congratulations, Sue!
April: Leah's paper "Cold pool and precipitation responses to aerosol loading: Modulation by dry layers" and Steve M.'s paper "Impacts of cloud droplet-nucleating aerosols on shallow tropical convection" are published by JAS.
March 1-May 30: Adele travels to Stockholm, Sweden to collaborate with Dr. Annica Ekman and colleagues on Arctic mixed-phase clouds. The research experience is funded through an NSF GROW award.
February: Adele's paper "Make it a double? Sobering results from simulations using single-moment microphysics schemes" is published by JAS.
January 9: Leah wins the outstanding student oral presentation award in the aerosol-cloud-climate interactions session of the AMS Annual Meeting. Renee Duff, Leah's undergraduate intern from summer 2014, wins the best student poster award at the AMS Annual Meeting Student Conference for her summer research. Congratulations, Leah and Renee!
January 5-9: Peter, Leah, Steve H., Michal, and Sue give presentations at the AMS Annual Meeting. Aryeh wins a travel grant to attend.
