We are well on the 3rd week of the summer research program and our students are working hard on their research projects. We had a great field trip to the Eversource Berlin campus yesterday where we visited the CONVEX, the Systems Operations Center, and the Incident Command Center! Students had the opportunity to talk with the Eversource project leads over lunch and better understand how their research applies to important utility operations.

Here is a photo of the entire group, faculty and students, outside the Systems Operations Center! Angie, Lily, Roxie, Ryan and Bill, thumbs up!

Our group together with the Eversource managers outside the main building in the Berlin campus. Thank you all for a great day!

 

Congratulations to Catrina for winning the poster competition at CMAS 2016! Three student posters were the winners. Quoting the CMAS announcement:

“Dear All,
Thank you for participating in the 15th annual CMAS conference last week. The poster sessions included 28 student posters which were reviewed and judged by the members of the CMAS External Advisory Committee (EAC) to select the best student posters for each day. Members of the EAC had a tough job due to the high quality of student posters. Each poster received scores based on the following metrics; originality, clarity and visual quality, presentation, conclusions drawn, and presenter’s response to questions.
The following three student posters are the winners of the 2016 CMAS Conference Student Poster poster competition:
Day 1:
Incomplete sulfate aerosol neutralization despite excess ammonia in the eastern US: a possible role of organic aerosol. Presented by Rachel F. Silvern, Harvard University
Day 2:
Prediction of harmful water quality parameters combining weather, air quality and ecosystem models with in-situ measurements. Presented by Catherine Nowakowski, University of Connecticut
Improving Cloud Prediction in WRF Through the use of GOES Satellite Observations for SIP Modeling. Presented by Andrew T. White, University of Alabama, Huntsville. ”

Sooo proud!

Catrina (Catherine Nowakowski) won the Summer 2016 SURF award and she will be working with our group, Dr. Penny Vlahos (MARN) and Dr. Valerie Garcia (EPA) this summer. Exciting research ideas and anticipated outcomes. So proud of Catrina! More information can be found here.

Jaemo and Huiying received pre-doctoral fellowships from the Environmental Engineering program for their excellent academic performance. Congrats!! Keep up the good work!

Our Environmental Engineering Colloquium series this semester starts with Dr. Luca Delle Monache of the National Center for Atmospheric Reserach (NCAR). The seminar is entitled “Probabilistic predictions and uncertainty quantification with an analog ensemble” and the presentation can be found here (go to “News” tab to access the pdf) DelleMonache_UConn_Feb16.

Our Environmental Engineering Colloquium series this semester continued with Craig Schwartz of the National Center for Atmospheric Reserach (NCAR), on November 20th. Craig’s seminar was entitled “The future of weather forecasting: high-resolution ensembles“. The seminar presentation is available here (go to “News” tab to access the pdf): Schwartz_UCONN_nov2015

Our Environmental Engineering Colloquium series this semester start with Prof. Penny Vlahos (MARN, UConn) and her exciting work in Sri Lanka. Read more here: October 23, 2015 Announcement. Hope to see you all there!

We welcome our new AirMG group member, Ghezae Fisseha, who joined us this semester as a PhD student. Here’s to new beginnings and successful continuations for all group members!

Hey guys, we need a group photo sometime before the snow comes!

Marina

 

Our daily weather forecast is up and running. Many thanks to Tingyang Xu (BECAT) and Dimitris Diamantis (AM&WFG) for their invaluable help. Go to Daily weather forecast and enjoy the weather!

Welcome to Chris Dickson, our newest group member for the summer! Chris is an undergraduate at Cornell University, studying atmospheric sciences and will be with us for one month. He will help the group with data gathering and analysis and he will hopefully get some experience in Linux and a flavor of numerical modeling systems. Go Chris!