Colloquia for Spring 2025
Jul 15, 2025
PhD Defense
“Constraining Satellite Precipitation Biases Through Geophysical Arguments”
By Eric Goldenstern
Advisor: Chris Kummerow
Jul 07, 2025
PhD Defense
“Studying Climate Intervention Scenarios with Data Science Methods”
By Charlotte "Charlie" Connolly
Advisor: Elizabeth Barnes
Jun 26, 2025
MS Defense
“Dynamics of Convective Organization in African Easterly Waves observed during the NAMMA and CPEX-CV Field Campaigns”
By Delian Colon-Burgos
Advisor: Michael Bell
Jun 25, 2025
PhD Defense
“From Sailors to Satellites: Investigating the Maritime Mystery of Bioluminescent Milky Seas”
By Justin Hudson
Advisor: Steven Miller
Jun 20, 2025
MS Defense
“ Future Projections of the 2011 Super Tornado Outbreak Under Global Warming and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection ”
By Bali Summers
Advisor: James Hurrell
Jun 16, 2025
MS Defense
“An Object-Based Analysis of Lightning Characteristics in a Pre-Tropical Cyclogenesis Environment”
By Nick Mesa
Advisor: Michael Bell
Jun 12, 2025
MS Defense
“Turning Up the Heat: Assessing 2-m Temperature Forecast Errors in AI Weather Prediction Models During Heat Waves”
By Kelsey Ennis
Advisor: Elizabeth Barnes and Eric Maloney
Jun 09, 2025
MS Defense
“Evaporative Moisture Sources of Colorado's Front Range: A Case Study of the Exceptionally Wet May-July Season of 2023”
By Katherine "Kat" Humphreys
Advisor: Patrick Keys
Jun 03, 2025
PhD Defense
“Conditions leading to extrinsic and intrinsic ecosystem change across large ensembles of climate futures”
By Daniel Hueholt
Advisor: James Hurrell and Elizabeth Barnes
May 12, 2025
MS Defense
“AI-Informed Model Analogs for Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction”
By Jacob Landsberg
Advisor: Elizabeth Barnes
May 09, 2025
PhD Defense
“Smoky Skies and Polar Air: Aerosol Microphysics Across Scales”
By Nicole June
Advisor: Jeff Pierce
May 09, 2025
PhD Defense
“Understanding the Ability of the Southern Ocean to Influence the Southeastern Tropical Pacific”
By Yiyu Zheng
Advisor: Maria Rugenstein
Apr 30, 2025
PhD Defense
“Aerosol and land surface impacts on tropical convective processes”
By Gabrielle "Bee" Leung
Advisor: Susan van den Heever
Apr 15, 2025
MS Defense
“ The Role of Internal Variability and External Forcing on the Emergence of Compound Events in the CESM2 Large Ensemble”
By Ashley Dwyer
Advisor: Elizabeth Barnes
Mar 11, 2025
PhD Defense
“Improving Predictions and Generating Actionable Forecast Insights for Downslope Windstorms with Machine Learning   ”
By Casey Zoellick
Advisor: Russ Schumacher
Mar 10, 2025
MS Defense
“The Impact of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection: A Regional Case Study”
By Sabrina Cohen
Advisor: Jim Hurrell
Feb 24, 2025
PhD Defense
“ Cold Pool Propagation and Cold Pool-Land Surface Interactions ”
By Nick Falk
Advisor: Susan van den Heever
Feb 19, 2025
MS Defense
“ Comparison of Microphysical and Topographical Influences on Warm Season Storm Electrification Between Subtropical South America and Colorado”
By Mitchell Gregg
Advisor: Kristen Rasmussen
Feb 18, 2025
MS Defense
“ Eulerian and Lagrangian Analyses of Bioaerosol Transport in Three Deep Convective Storm Morphologies”
By Charles Davis
Advisor: Susan van den Heever
Jan 30, 2025
PhD Defense
“Data-Driven Improvements to GPROF-Based Satellite Snowfall Retrievals with a Focus on Mountain Snowfall ”
By Ryan Gonzalez
Advisor: Christian Kummerow