Hi all. I am
a second-year graduate
student in the Department of Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences
at the University at Albany, SUNY. I received my B.S. in
Atmospheric Science at Cornell University (2010) and hope to earn my M.S. from SUNY Albany in 2012. For my Master's
thesis, I am working on a CSTAR project under the
supervision of Dr. Lance Bosart and Dr. Daniel Keyser. The CSTAR
initiative involves a collaboration of the university's Atmospheric
Science program and the National Weather Service, through which graduate students, faculty, and NWS personnel
conduct reserach in certain areas of meteorology
that are pertinent to operational forecasting. Specifically, my
research will concentrate on ice storms and freezing precipitation in
the Eastern United States. These phenomena create
extremely hazardous conditions during winter, and are responsible for
economic losses, power outages, transportation headaches, and even
fatalities. We must acquire a better understanding of these
events in order to fulfill NOAA's mission to protect life, property, and economic prosperity. Our
primary research objectives include: 1) creating a long-term climatology
of frozen precipitation for first-order stations in the eastern U.S., 2) determining the synoptic and mesoscale environments favorable for significant icing
events in the Northeast, and 3) developing forecast methodologies to
improve operational forecasting of major ice storms. Overall, my
interests lie in the fields of synoptic-dynamic and mesoscale meteorology, with a particular emphasis on extratropical cylcones and winter weather
phenomenoa. In addition, I have academic and careers interests in the fields of physical geography, hydrology, and geographic information science. I
currently hold a Graduate Teaching Assistantship
and serve as a head TA for undergraduate courses in the department.
Number of ice storms impacting each county during the
1993-2010 period.