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Archived news about the Minder research group:

• September 2020: Matthew Seymour presents his research on winter precipitation type forecasting at the NWA Annual Meeting.


• July 2020: Justin, Massey, Brendan, Yazmina, and Pat all present research at the virtual AMS Conference on Mountain Meteorology.


• May 2020: Brendan Wallace successfuly completes his PhD prospectus. Congrats!








• May 2020: Erin Leghart completes her BS and senior honors thesis entitled "An Evaluation of Airborne Size Distribution Data from the 12-13 November 2015 Atmospheric River Event in the Pacific Northwest." Congrats!






• March 2020: Justin and Massey publish a new paper on Characterizing and Constraining Uncertainty Associated with Surface and Boundary Layer Turbulent Fluxes in Simulations of Lake-Effect Snowfall.





• January 2019: Pat attendeds the CUAHSI Snow Measurement Field School in New Hampshire. The skills he honed will get put to use as he collects data at NYS Mesonet sites to evaluate and improve the National Water Model.






• January 2019: Justin and Massey present their work on characterizing and constraining the sensitivity of lake-effect snow forecasts to physics parameterizations in high-resolution forecasts at the AMS Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. Links: here, here


• December 2019: Massey Bartolini completes his MS degree with the thesis: "Convection-permitting ensemble forecasts of the 10-12 December 2013 lake-effect snow event: sensitivity to microphysical, planetary boundary layer, and surface layer parameterizations" Congrats!




• December 2019: Justin gives talks on "The importance of the snow albedo feedback for understanding and projecting changes in mountain climates" and "Evaluating the skill of GPM-IMERG satellite precipitation estimation over the mountains of central Chile" at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting. Links: here, and here.
  
  
• October 2019: Justin and Pat summarize Minder Group's research on winter weather and snow to US Representative Paul Tonko during his visit to UAlbany's Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sceinces.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• September 2019: New NOAA grant, "Improving Snow and Streamflow Simulation in the National Water Model by Leveraging Advanced Mesonet Observations from the Northeastern United States", will fund Minder group's research. We will use unique observations from the NYS Mesonet to improve the representation of snow in NOAA's National Water Model via evaluation and improvement of model parameterizations and data assimilation.
  
  
• Aug. - Sept. 2019: Justin attends the 1st TEAMx Workshop and the 35th International Conference on Alpine Meteorology (ICAM) in the Italian Alps. Justin served on the Programme Committee for ICAM and presented research on "The impact of snow cover loss under climate warming on convective orographic rainfall" and "Evaluating the skill of GPM-IMERG satellite precipitation estimation over the mountains of central Chile".
  
  
• August 2019: Minder Group welcomes two new graduate students: Pat Naple and Matthew Seymour.
  
  
  
  
  
• August 2019: New NOAA grant, "Advancing Probabilistic Prediction of High-Impact Winter Storms through Ensemble NWP and Post-Processing", will fund Minder group's research on winter storms in collaboration with Jim Steenburgh's group at UUtah. A major focus will be on evaluating and improving probabilistic predictions of winter storms using stochastic physics parameterizations. We will be leveraging data from the OWLeS and OLYMPEX field campaigns.
  
  
• July 2019: New NOAA CSTAR grant will fund Minder group's research into improving understanding and prediction of precipitation type under near-freezing conditions in complex terrain.


• July 2019: Justin gives an invited talk on "The Role of the Snow Albedo Feedback in Regional Climate Change over Mountains as Revealed by High-Resolution RCM Experiments" at the 27th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics in Montreal, Canada.


• June 2019: Yazmina Rojas recieves a student travel award and presents her research on "Evaluating the Skill of GPM-IMERG Satellite Precipitation Estimation over the Mountains of Central Chile" at the The International Precipitation Conference in Irvine, CA.




• May 2019: Terry Allard presents research on alpine tundra and climate change at the The Annual Conference on the Adirondacks in Lake Placid, NY.





• May 2019: Brendan Wallace completes his MS degree with the thesis: "The Simulated Impact of Snow Cover and Soil Moisture on Convective Precipitation within the Rocky Mountains under Climate Warming." Congrats!




• April 2019: Justin and Massey provide a demonstration weather balloon launch as part of UAlbany's Family Earth Day event.








• April 2019: Justin speaks about "Weather Awareness and Forecasting" for the New York State Balloon Association's Continuing Education Seminar.








• November 2018: Justin gives an invited seminar entitled "Towards improved understanding & prediction of intense lake-effect snowstorms" to the McGill University Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department .


• September 2018: Justin recieves tenure and promotion to Associate Professor .


• September 2018: Justin and Brendan present research at the 2nd GEWEX Convection-Permitting Climate Modeling Workshop at NCAR in Boulder, CO.


• August 2018: Eleven high school students from around the Capital Region attended the 2018 UAlbany Weather & Climate Camp. Thanks to everyone who helped make the camp a success!










• June 2018: Justin, Brendan, and Yazmina present research at the AMS Conference on Mountain Meteorology in Santa Fe, NM. Brendan won the Best Student Oral Presentation Award and Justin was presented with the Mountain Meteorology Early Career Award !








• May 2018: Justin presents research at the The Annual Conference on the Adirondacks in Lake Placid, NY.


• May 2018: Justin presents research at the GEWEX Open Science Conference in Canmore, Canada.


• April 2018: Justin and the UAlbany Weather and Climate Camp received a UAlbany Presidential Award for Exemplary Public Engagement! More info here and here













• April 2018: Justin provides a "green screen" weathercast activity for budding 6th-grade scientists participating in the Rise-high program. More info here.







• April 2018: Justin and Massey provide a demonstration weather balloon launch as part of UAlbany's Family Earth Day event. More info here.


• January 2018: Justin co-authors a new study on simulating how large-scale wind farms influence local climate. More info here.





• November 2017: Justin and Massey help to provide science demos for the 5th annual Science Festival at the Museum of Innovaion and Science in Schenectady. More info here.


• August 2017: Minder group participates in Chemical Processing of Organics within Clouds (CPOC) pilot study at Whiteface Mountain. Matthew Brewer leads weather forecasting and radiosonde observation efforts.


• August 2017: Yazmina Rojas joins the Minder research group.



• August 2017: Twelve high school students from around the Capital Region attended the 2017 UAlbany Weather & Climate Camp. Thanks to everyone who helped make the camp a success! More info here.
• July 2017: Justin, Massey, and Brendan present research at the AMS Mesoscale Processes conference in San Diego, CA.
• July 2017: Justin visits NCAR in Boulder, CO to assist in training Korean Meteorological Association forecasters for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
  
  
• June 2017: Brendan visits NCAR in Boulder, CO for 2 weeks to attend ASP summer school on The Interaction of Precipitation with Orography.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• June 2017: Massey visits NCAR in Boulder, CO for 1 week to study predictability of lake-effect storms using the NCAR-ensemble modeling system.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Feb 2017: Ted Letcher successfully defends his PhD. Congrats!
  
  
  
  
  
  
• December 2016: Justin and Ted present research on snow cover, the snow-albedo feedback and regional climate change over mountains at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting. Links: here, and here.
  
  
• September 2016: Massey Bartolini and Brendan Wallace join the Minder resesarch group.
  
  
• September 2016: Justin and Ted present at the GEWEX Convection-Permitting Climate Modeling Workshop in Boulder, CO.
  
  
  
  
• August 2016: Another successful year for the UAlbany Weather & Climate Camp! Twelve bright students from around the Capital Region spent the week at UAlbany getting a hands-on introduction to the science of weather and climate. More info here. Thanks to all who helped make the camp possible!
  
  
  
  
• August 2016: Justin gives a book review of the facinating "The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic" for Friends of the Albany Public Library.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• July 2016: Ted, Adam, and Justin presented research at the AMS mountain meteorology conference . See links: here, here, here, and here.
  
  
• May 2016: Adam Massmann completes his MS degree. Congrats!
  
  
  
  
  
  
• April 2016: Justin & Ted provided weather balloon launches and "Coriolis machine" rides for annual UAlbany Family Earth Day (Info and photos here).
  
  
  
  
  
  
• April 2016: New NOAA CSTAR grant will fund Minder group's research into numerical forecasting of severe lake-effect snow storms. (Read more: here).
  
  
• Apr 2016: Justin presents on "Weather awareness and forecasting for balloonists" at the New York State Balloon Association's 2016 Safety Seminar. (Links to weather resources are here.)
  
  
• Dec 2015: Justin and Ted present research on snow cover, the snow-albedo feedback, regional climate change over the Rocky Mountains, and coastal orographic rainfall at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting. Links: here, here, and, here.
  
  
• Sept 2015: Justin assists in training forecasters for the 2018 Winter Olympics (read more here) .
  
  
• Sept 2015: Justin presents research on snow-albedo feedback and mountain climate at the International Conference on Alpine Meteorology in Innsbruck, Austria.
  
  
• Aug 2015: UAlbany Weather & Climate Camp in the news! Links: (UAlbany News Center) (TWC News) (WNYT) (Times Union)
  
  
  
  
• Aug 2015: Minder group presents lake-effect snow research at AMS\ conference on Mesoscale Processes. See links: here and here.
  
  
• April 2015: Adam Massmann is awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship !!
  
  
• Nov 2014: Justin quoted in "Unraveling the mysteries of deadly 'firehose' lake-effect snow events" (read more here).
  
  
• Sept 2014: Justin gives invited talk at MTNCLIM 2014 mountain climate research conference.
  
  
• Sept 2014: Adam Massmann joins the Minder research group.
  
  
• Aug 2014: Ted and Justin presented research at the AMS mountain meteorology conference . See links: here and here.
  
  
• March 2014: Justin was awarded an NSF-CAREER grant to study the role of the snow-albedo feedback in regional climate change over mountainous terrain. The\ grant will also fund a summer weather/climate science camp for local urban high school students.
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• Dec 2013 -Jan 2014: Justin & grad student Ted Letcher participated in the Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS) field experiment to study lake-effect snow over the Tug Hill Plateau ( read more here )




• Sept 2013: Ted Letcher joins the Minder research group.
  
  

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