Colloquia for Fall 2023
Dec 13, 2023
MS Defense
“Application of an Interpretable Prototypical-Part Network for Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Climate Prediction Over North America”
By Nicolas Gordillo
Advisor: Elizabeth Barnes
Dec 04, 2023
MS Defense
“Effects of Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions Within Two Convective Storm Regimes”
By Ben Ascher
Advisor: Susan van den Heever
Nov 30, 2023
PhD Defense
“Emissions, Evolution, and Transport of Ammonia (NH3) From Large Animal Feeding Operations: A Summertime Study in Northeastern Colorado”
By Julieta Juncosa Calahorrano
Advisor: Emily Fischer
Nov 29, 2023
MS Defense
“The Influence of Western Boundary Currents on Tropospheric Climate Variability in Reanalyses and Climate Models”
By James Larson
Advisor: James Hurrell and David Thompson
Nov 28, 2023
MS Defense
“The Abundance and Sources of Ice Nucleating Particles (INPs) within Alaskan Ice Fog”
By Emily Lill
Advisor: Emily Fischer and Jessie Creamean
Nov 06, 2023
PhD Defense
“Ice Nucleating Particles in the Arctic: Measurement and Source Tracking”
By Kevin Barry
Advisor: Sonia Kreidenweis and Paul DeMott
Nov 01, 2023
MS Defense
“Topographic and Diurnal Influences on Storms Associated with Heavy Rainfall in Northern Colorado”
By Zoe Douglas
Advisor: Kristen Rasmussen
Oct 19, 2023
MS Defense
“Summertime ozone production at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico: influence of oil and natural gas development”
By Andrey Marsavin
Advisor: Jeffrey Collett
Oct 16, 2023
PhD Defense
“Marine ice nucleating particles: sources, composition, emissions, and model parameterizations”
By Kathryn Moore
Advisor: Sonia Kreidenweis and Paul DeMott
Oct 13, 2023
PhD Defense
“Comparing precipitation estimates, model forecasts, and random forest based predictions for excessive rainfall”
By Eric James
Advisor: Russ Schumacher
Oct 06, 2023
MS Defense
“Data-driven Models for Subseasonal Cyclogenesis Forecasts in the East Pacific and North Atlantic”
By Zaibeth Carlo-Frontera
Advisor: Elizabeth Barnes and Eric Maloney
Sep 25, 2023
PhD Defense
“Using Laboratory and Airborne Measurements to Investigate the Role of Ice Nucleating Particles in Ice and Mixed-Phase Clouds”
By Ryan Patnaude
Advisor: Sonia Kreidenweis and Paul DeMott
Sep 22, 2023
MS Defense
“The Effect of Projected Sea Surface Temperature Change on MJO Activity in a Warmer Climate”
By Amanda Bowden
Advisor: Eric Maloney
Sep 12, 2023
MS Defense
“Diagnosing the Angular Momentum Fluxes that Drive the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation”
By Ann Casey Hughes
Advisor: David Randall
Sep 08, 2023
MS Defense
“Cold Pool Train Dynamics and Transport”
By Christine Neumaier
Advisor: Susan van den Heever and Leah Grant
Sep 05, 2023
MS Defense
“Inorganic Gas-Aerosol Partitioning in and around Animal Feeding Operation Plumes in Northeastern Colorado in Late Summer 2021”
By En Li
Advisor: Jeffrey Pierce and Emily Fischer
Aug 23, 2023
MS Defense
“Changes in the Snowpack of the Upper Colorado River Basin in a Warmer Future Climate”
By Lexi Sherman
Advisor: Kristen Rasmussen
Aug 18, 2023
MS Defense
“The influence of prescribed burning on springtime PM2.5 concentrations in eastern Kansas”
By Olivia Sablan
Advisor: Emily Fischer, Jeffrey Pierce
Aug 10, 2023
PhD Defense
“When is the Unpredictable (slightly more) Predictable? An Assessment of Opportunities for Skillful Decadal Climate Prediction Using Explainable Neural Networks”
By Emily Gordon
Advisor: Elizabeth Barnes
Aug 02, 2023
PhD Defense
“GREMLIN: GOES Radar Estimation via Machine Learning to Inform NWP”
By Kyle Hilburn
Advisor: Steven Miller