Kristen L. Rasmussen – Associate Professor
Email: kristenr@rams.colostate.edu
Research and teaching website
Education
- Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences – 2014 – University of Washington, Seattle
- M.S. Atmospheric Sciences – 2011 – University of Washington, Seattle
- B.S. Meteorology and Mathematics – 2007 – University of Miami – Coral Gables, FL
- B.A. Music – 2007 – University of Miami – Coral Gables, FL
Career Overview
Kristen Rasmussen received a B.S. in Meteorology and Mathematics and a B.A. in Music at the University of Miami in 2007. She completed her M.S. in 2011 and Ph.D. in 2014 from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. Her graduate research primarily focused on cloud and mesoscale processes of high-impact weather in South America using the TRMM satellite and flooding in India and Pakistan. Kristen was an Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and worked with scientists from the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Lab (MMM) and Research Applications Lab (RAL) from 2015 to 2016. She joined the CSU faculty in October 2016.
Teaching Interests
- Satellite, synoptic, and mesoscale meteorology
- Cloud and mesoscale processes
- Cloud-climate interactions
Research Interests
Kristen Rasmussen’s research interests include investigating the global population of convective storms from the TRMM and GPM spaceborne precipitation radars, extreme deep convection in South America, flooding in Pakistan and India, cloud and mesoscale processes, high-impact weather, hydrometeorology, cloud-climate interactions, and convection-permitting regional climate modeling.
Awards, Honors, and Positions
- 2015 – Very Early Career Award, AMS Mesoscale Processes Conference, Boston, MA
- 2015 – Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellowship, NCAR, Boulder, CO
- 2014 – College of the Environment Outstanding Community Impact Award, University of Washington, Seattle
- 2014, 2013 – Outstanding Student Paper Award, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
- 2012 – Peter B. Wagner Memorial Award for Women in Atmospheric Science, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV
- 2011 – NASA Earth System Science Graduate Fellowship