{"id":1486,"date":"2026-07-03T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2026-09-30T14:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:44:29","slug":"fouzia-successfully-defends-her-ph-d-dissertation-at-iowa-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/fouzia-successfully-defends-her-ph-d-dissertation-at-iowa-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Fouzia successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation at Iowa State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 July, Fouzia successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation at Iowa State University entitled, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dr.lib.iastate.edu\/entities\/publication\/f7d73235-5ca8-4d5f-8714-b3906e12bd16\">What Shapes Tropical Rainfall over the East Pacific? Insights from Low Clouds and Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves<\/a>.&#8221; A big congrats to Fouzia!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1491\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260702_1833405072-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260702_1833405072-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260702_1833405072-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260702_1833405072-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260702_1833405072-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260702_1833405072.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1490\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260702_174338693.MP5_-1024x865.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260702_174338693.MP5_-1024x865.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260702_174338693.MP5_-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260702_174338693.MP5_-768x649.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260702_174338693.MP5_-1536x1297.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260702_174338693.MP5_.jpg 2047w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 July, Fouzia successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation at Iowa State University entitled, &#8220;What Shapes Tropical Rainfall over the East Pacific? Insights from Low Clouds and Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves.&#8221; A big congrats to Fouzia! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}