99th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Student Presentation Awards

Student Presenter Award

Second Place

How Can You Trust What You Don’t Use?: Measuring Patterns of Individual’s Weather Information Source Reliance and Trust
Wesley W. Wehde
University of Oklahoma

Student Presenter Award - Poster

1st Place

Scaling for the Nontraditional Coriolis Term in Diabatic-Forced Dynamics
Hing Ong
University at Albany, State University of New York

Outstanding Student Conference Poster Award

Undergraduate

A Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Convective Morphology Classification from Radar Imagery
Jonathan E. Thielen
Iowa State Univ.

Best Student Oral Award

1st Place

Analysis of Short-Term Ionospheric Variability Using WACCM-X
Amin Taziny
Binghamton Univ., State Univ. of New York

Student Presenter Award - Oral

Top Overall

Impacts of Air Quality on Asthma Outcomes across Senegal
Maggie Li
Univ. of California, Berkeley

Outstanding Student Paper Award

Long-Term (2005-2017) Global SO2 Emissions Derived from Two OMI SO2 Retrievals: Discrepancy Analysis and Validations
Zhen Qu
Univ. of Colorado Boulder

Outstanding Student Paper Award

The Sensitivity of Southeast U.S. Ozone Abundance and Production to Dry Deposition
Colleen B. Baublitz
Columbia Univ.

Outstanding Student Paper Award

Developing Observable Proxies to Infer Hydroxyl Radical Spatiotemporal Variability
Colleen B. Baublitz
Columbia Univ.

In Situ Measurements and Evaluation of Primary Radical Budgets within Wildfire Plumes during WE-CAN
Qiaoyun Peng
Univ. of Washington

Outstanding Student Conference Poster Award

Graduate

Snow darkening effects of black carbon and dust across the Rocky Mountains of the western United States: Experiments using WRF-Chem
Stefan Rahimi
University of Wyoming

Student Presenter Award

Third Place

Climate Services for Livelihood Resilience in Coastal Bangladesh: Bridging the Gaps between Science, Society, and Policy through Institutional Innovations
Saleh Ahmed
The University of Arizona

Outstanding Student Conference Poster Award

Graduate

WRF Simulations of the Onset of the 2009 Convective Season in the Southeastern United States
Mary Ruth Brown
East Carolina University

Outstanding Presentation

Modeling the MJO–QBO Relationship in a Reforecast Model
Zane K Martin
Columbia Univ.

Outstanding Presentation

More Frequent Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events due to a Stronger Madden–Julian Expected in a Warmer Climate: Role of Midlatitude Tropospheric Jet
Wanying Kang
Harvard Univ.

Outstanding Student Conference Poster Award

Undergraduate

Evaluating Urban WRF-Solar for Photovoltaic Power Forecasts in New York City
Harold Gamarro
City College of New York

Best Student Presentation

Impact of Scale-Dependent Localization with and without Cross-Band Correlation on Hurricane Track Forecasts in the FV3GFS 4DEnVar System
Bo Huang
Univ. of Oklahoma

Student Presenter Award

Honorable Mention

Place Attachment, Climatology, and Tornado Risk Perception in Central Oklahoma
Victoria A. Johnson
University of Oklahoma

Honorable Mention

Surveying the TCM with NWS Partners
Ayesha Wilkinson
NCAS, Howard University

Outstanding Student Conference Poster Award

Undergraduate

Tundra Fires in Alaska: A Weather Perspective
James White
The Ohio State University

Outstanding Student Paper Award

What Controls the Ratio of Primary Reduced and Oxidized Forms of Gas Phase Reactive Nitrogen in Young Wildfire Smoke?
Jakob Lindaas
Colorado State Univ.

Best Student Oral Presentation

1st Place

Geospatial Energy Potential and Life Cycle Assessment of Nearshore Oscillating Water Column Systems along the Eastern Coast of New England, United States
Aleks Siemenn
Univ. at Albany, SUNY

Outstanding Student Paper Award

Urban Land Cover Type Influences CO2 Fluxes within Phoenix, Arizona
Eli Rafael Pérez Ruiz
Arizona State Univ.

Student Presenter Award - Poster

1st Place

Modeling Hydrological Extremes in the Colorado River Basin at Various Watershed Scales.
Kristen M. Whitney
Arizona State Univ.

Student Presenter Award - Oral

2nd Place

Climatology of Water Vapor Fluxes and Precipitation in the Northeastern United States
Natalie Teale
Rutgers Univ.

Outstanding Student Conference Poster Award

Undergraduate

Freezing Levels and Atmospheric Rivers over the California Feather River Watershed
Julie Cunningham
Plymouth State University

Student Presenter Award - Oral

1st Place

Verifying the Impact of the FV3-GFS Upgrade on LAMP Statistical Guidance
Elizabeth Venteicher
Valparaiso Univ.

Outstanding Student Paper Award

Methods of Estimating Deposition Using Atmospheric Concentration Measurements: Using Synthetic Observations Downwind of a CAFO to Quantify Ammonia Deposition
William Lassman
Colorado State Univ.

Best Student Oral Presentation

2nd Place

Integrating Atmospheric Modeling and Energy Modeling to Quantify the Air Quality and Mitigation Impacts of Clean Energy Strategies in the United States
David Abel
Univ. of Wisconsin−Madison

Outstanding Presentation

Linking the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and Projected Arctic Sea-Ice Loss to Stratospheric Variability in Early Winter
Zachary M. Labe
Univ. of California, Irvine

Best Student Presentation

Reducing Representativeness Errors during Radio Occultation–Radiosonde Comparisons
Shay Gilpin
Univ. of Colorado Boulder

Best Student Poster Presentation

High-Temporal-Resolution Observations of Weak-Echo Reflectivity Bands and Momentum Surges in the 16 May 2017 Wheeler, Texas, Tornado
Casey B. Griffin
Univ. of Oklahoma

Student Presenter Award

Outstanding Oral Presentation

On the Role of Horizontal Temperature Advection for the Interdecadal Arctic Warming Trend
Joseph P. Clark
The Pennsylvania State Univ.

Best Poster Presentation

1st Place

Assessing Wind Representation in Reanalyses and Methods of Extrapolation to Hub Height for the Upper Midwest
Jacob Coburn
Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Best Student Poster Presentation

Honorable Mention

Diagnosing the Potential for Thunderstorm-Induced Power Outages with the Rapid Refresh Model
Rachel Cucinotta
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Student Presenter Award - Poster

Top Overall

Using Numerical Simulations to Assess Urban Heat Island Mitigation by Converting Vacant Areas into Green Spaces
Timothy J. Cady
Univ. of Kansas

Outstanding Presentation

Origin of the Upper-Tropospheric North American Monsoon Anticyclone
Leong Wai Siu
Texas A&M Univ.

Outstanding Presentation

Characterizing Error due to Non-Uniform Spatial and Temporal Sampling in the SWOOSH Merged Data Set and Implications for Understanding Long-Term Ozone and WV Variability
Ekaterina Lezine
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Student Presenter Award - Poster

2nd Place

Using Ensemble Precipitation Forcing to Communicate the Uncertainty of Hydrologic Event Occurrence at River Infrastructure
Sean Matus
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign

Student Presenter Award

Honorable Mention

Rhetoric and Climate Science: Organizational Influence on Public Policy Related to Hurricane Harvey
Joseph E. Trujillo
Texas A&M University

2nd Place

Strategic Tactics and Language Features Used by Broadcast Meteorologists during Hurricane Harvey to Describe Threat and Build Resilience
Robert Prestley
University of Kentucky

Outstanding Presentation

Separating and Quantifying the Distinct Impacts of El Niño and Stratospheric Sudden Warmings on North Atlantic and Eurasian Wintertime Climate
Jessica Oehrlein
Columbia Univ.

Student Presenter Award - Oral

1st Place

An Investigation of Liquid Water Percolation and Model Transferability in Multiple Snow Climates (Invited Presentation)
Justin M. Pflug
Univ. of Washington

Best Student Oral Presentation

3rd Place

Forecasting Cloud Index with an Advection Model and Data Assimilation
Travis M. Harty
The Univ. of Arizona

Best Student Poster Award

1st Place

A Statistical Analysis of Density Perturbations in Relation to Solar X-Flare Events Isolated from Coronal Mass Ejections
Kelsey Doerksen
Univ. of Western Ontario

Student Presenter Award

Honorable Mention

Understanding the Public's Response to Uncertainty through an Interdisciplinary Analysis
Anas A. Askar
Howard University

Student Presenter Award

Outstanding Oral Presentation

Climate Change Effects on the Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones in High-Resolution Global Simulations Using the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS)
Allison C. Michaelis
North Carolina State Univ.

Student Presenter Award - Oral

1st Place

African Easterly Wave–Mesoscale Convective Coupled Systems That Are Potential Candidates for Tropical Cyclogenesis
Kelly Marie Nunez Ocasio
The Pennsylvania State Univ.

Student Presenter Award

Outstanding Oral Presentation

Quantifying the Dependence of the Global Response to the Madden–Julian Oscillation on the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
Benjamin A. Toms
Colorado State Univ.

Student Presenter Award

Outstanding Oral Presentation

Understanding Future Climate Trends of Northern Hemisphere Meridional Winds through the Lens of Subseasonal Teleconnections
Dor Sandler
Tel Aviv Univ.