Congratulations to student presenters

Atmospheric Science students present at scientific meetings and conferences all year round. Though, members of our community especially travel around the turn of the year for annual conferences. We’re celebrating all the student presenters who traveled in the last couple of months. Thank you for sharing your work with the rest of the scientific community. Congratulations to award winners for recognition of your presentations at the American Meteorological Society annual meeting:

• Kelsey Ennis – Second Place Winner in the Poster Presentation Category of the Joint Conference Student Competition at the 2025 AMS 105th Annual Meeting | Presentation Title: Heat waves Been Freakin’ Me Out: Evaluating 2-m Temperature Prediction Skill in UFS GEFS and AI Weather Forecasting Models

• Jacob Escobedo – Honorable Mention Student Paper Award 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science at the 105th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting | Presentation Title: Towards Improving a Machine Learning Model for Excessive Rainfall in the Southwest United States

• Sarah Gryskewicz, REU student – Second Place Poster Award 2025 AMS 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry | Presentation Title: 2023 Canadian Wildfire Impacts on Air Quality in the Northeastern United States

• Miles Harmala, REU student – Third Place Oral Presentation Award 2025 AMS Symposium on Radar Research to Operations | Presentation Title: Evaluating Machine Learning Updraft Retrieval Skill: Convective Storm Case Studies

• Tom Juliano – Second Place Oral Presentation Award 2025 AMS 15th Conference on the Transition of Research to Operations and the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems | Presentation Title: Utilizing Optical Flow Tracking-Based Retrievals of Cloud Top Cooling as a Research and Forecasting Tool for Deep Convection

• Michelle Kanipe – Honorable Mention Student Oral Presentation 2025 AMS 2nd Symposium on Cloud Physics | Presentation Title: Analysis of Self-Organization in Shallow Cumulus Using a Simple Cloud Model

• Bee Leung – Third Place Student Oral Presentation 2025 AMS 2nd Symposium on Cloud Physics | Presentation Title: Resolving convective mass flux and precipitation rates at sub-1km resolutions
  

• Jyong-En Miao – first place student presentation award 2025 AMS 39th Conference on Hydrology | Presentation Title: A Modeling Study of the Impact of Topography on Strongly-Forced Afternoon Thunderstorms and Extreme Rainfall in Northern Taiwan: TAHOPE/PRECIP IOP 2

• Madison Shogrin – First Place Oral Presenation Award 2025 AMS 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry | Presentation Title: Evolution of Ammonia (NH3) and Peroxyacyl Nitrates (PANs) in Wildfire Smoke Plumes from Space

• Anastasia Tomanek – Poster presentation award 2025 AMS Student Conference | Presentation Title: Assessment of Time-Lagged, Medium-Range, High-Resolution Ensemble Forecasts of Extreme Precipitation: May 2023