Posts by Alex Gonzalez

Alex’s grant entitled, “Nonlinear Dynamics of Daily-weekly Boreal Spring InterTropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) Shifts over the Eastern Pacific Ocean” was awarded by the National Science Foundation’s Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics Program. Funding for this project will be for three years beginning in May 2020. See more details on our ITCZ Dynamics Research Page and the official…

Undergraduate student, James Larson, won a Student Experiential Opportunities award through the Iowa Space Grant Consortium for January through June 2020. James will be assessing the accuracy of the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) in simulating sub-monthly shifts in the eastern Pacific Ocean Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) for October 2009–March 2010. Congrats and welcome to our research group,…

Undergraduate student, Melissa Piper, won the 2019 Outstanding Senior Thesis Award on her research entitled, “Evaluating Hurricane Harvey’s Rapid Intensification and Precipitation in the ERA5 Reanalysis.”

Ph.D. student, Indrani Ganguly, won the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) NCAR’s Advanced Study Program’s Graduate Student Fellowship for summer 2020. Indrani will be working with Dr. Richard Neale in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division conducting research on double ITCZ biases in climate models through hindcast simulations. Congrats, Indrani!

Sara Foernssler, Melissa Piper, and Matthew Statz all presented their senior thesis research at the 27th Annual Iowa State University Atmospheric Science Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congrats, Sara, Melissa, and Matt!

Melissa Piper’s reflects on her undergraduate experience in Meteorology at Iowa State in an article featured in Inside LAS: https://news.las.iastate.edu/2019/12/05/adventure-by-melissa/.

Kevin Greene, Matthew Statz, and Melissa Piper were all awarded the Dean’s High Impact Awards for Undergraduate Research for Spring 2020. Each award is $1,200 per semester or $4,800 for summer. This is Kevin’s second time winning the award; he will be continuing his research on improving our understanding of the rainfall characteristics of Tropical Storm Hermine…

Melissa Piper was one of five undergradauate students selected to participate in the National Science Foundation funded field experiment called the Organization of Tropical East Pacific Convection (OTREC) based in Costa Rica. Melissa helped launch radiosonde-equipped weather balloons that measured key atmospheric variables such as winds, temperature, and humidity. She also had to opportunity to…