Colloquia for Fall 2021
Dec 06, 2021
PhD Defense
“Analysis of Convection and Precipitation in the West Pacific During the PISTON Field Campaign”
By Kyle Chudler
Advisor: Steven Rutledge
Dec 06, 2021
PhD Defense
“The Air We Breathe: The Importance of High Resolution Air Quality Predictions”
By Michael Cheeseman
Advisor: Jeff Pierce
Nov 30, 2021
MS Defense
“Strong and Weak Cold Pool Collisions”
By Nicholas Falk
Advisor: Susan van den Heever
Nov 03, 2021
MS Defense
“Sensitivity of Simulated Microphysics to the Raindrop Distribution Shape Parameter and Comparisons with Observation”
By Kristen Van Valkenburg
Advisor: Susan van den Heever and Steven Rutledge
Nov 01, 2021
PhD Defense
“Multi-scale Interactions Leading to Tropical Cyclogenesis in Sheared Environments”
By Chaehyeon Chelsea Nam
Advisor: Michael Bell
Oct 27, 2021
PhD Defense
“Satellite-based Investigation of Convection and Precipitation in Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change”
By Naufal Razin
Advisor: Michael Bell
Oct 25, 2021
MS Defense
“Studying Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification with the Certainty Framework for Causal Discovery: A Case Study”
By Michael DeCaria
Advisor: Peter Jan van Leeuwen
Oct 22, 2021
MS Defense
“From Rain Gauges to Retweets: Using Diverse Datasets to Explore Overlapping Hazards and Human Experiences in Landfalling Tropical Cyclones”
By Allie Mazurek
Advisor: Russ Schumacher
Oct 19, 2021
MS Defense
“Detection of Forced Change Within Combined Climate Fields Using Explainable Neural Networks”
By Jamin Rader
Advisor: Elizabeth Barnes
Oct 12, 2021
MS Defense
“Breaking the Deadlock in Aerosol Remote Sensing and Three-Dimensional Radiative Transfer Using Machine Learning”
By Kevin Yang
Advisor: Christine Chiu
Sep 08, 2021
MS Defense
“The Impact of Tropical Intraseasonal Variability on Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Predictability”
By Wei-Ting Hsiao
Advisor: Eric Maloney and Elizabeth Barnes