Undergraduate Honors Theses

2019 | 2018 | 2016 | 2014 | 2012 | 2011

2019

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Jessica Blair

Advisors: Ross Lazear and Andrew Winters

• Antecedent North Pacific Jet Regimes Conducive to the Development of Cool Season Continental U.S. Tonado Outbreaks

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Jacob Shultis

Advisor: Junhong Wang

• Enhancing Ice Storm Detection from the New York State Mesonet

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Alexander E. Siemenn

Advisor: Marie-Odile Fortier (UC Merced)

• Geospatial Energy and Life Cycle Assessment of Oscillating Water Column Systems in the Northeast

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Chelsea Snide

Advisor: Andrea Lang

• Spatial Variability in the Stratospheric Polar Vortex: Implications on Northeast United States Temperature Anomalies

2018

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Erin K. Lynch

Advisors: Amber Silver and Brian Tang

• Assessing Effective Rhetoric on Twitter in Relation to Forecast Uncertainty in Hurricane Tracks

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Michael E. Main

Advisors: Ross Lazear and Lance Bosart

• Differences Between High Shear / Low CAPE Environments in the Northeast US Favoring Straight-line winds versus Tornadoes

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Marquette Rocque

Advisor: Justin Minder

• Understanding Microphysical Processes Occurring in Lake-Effect Snowbands Using Quasi-Vertical Profiles of WSR-88D Parameters

2016

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Tomer Burg

Advisor: Lance Bosart

• Analysis of Late Summer Heat Waves in the Northeast US

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Amanda Marie Colley

Advisors: Jeremy Kirchman and Justin Minder

• Exploring Bird Evolution: An Ornithology Lesson for Middle and High School Students

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Rachel O'Donnell

Advisors: Brian Tang

• Influence of Topography on Convective Patterns across the Greater Capital Region of New York

2014

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Christine Elizabeth Bloecker

Advisor: Hugh Wood Johnson III

• "Southerly Mohawk Hudson Convergence"- An Exploratory Case Study of Terrain-Induced Wind Convergence on the Formation of Thunderstorms in New York's Capital Region

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Ernesto W. Findlay

Advisors: Nicholas Schiraldi, Philippe Papin, Paul Roundy and Lance Bosart

• MJO Influence in Continental United States Temperatures

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Kyle James Pallozzi

Advisors: Lance Bosart and Robert Gaza

• The Effects of Downsloping on Storm Precipitation Distributions in the Capital District of New York State

2012

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Hannah E. Attard

Advisor: Ross Lazear

• Large Scale Precursors to Major Lake Effect Snowstorms Lee of Lake Erie

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Timothy W. Humphrey

Advisor: Lance Bosart

• An Evaluation of CAPE Tendency in Tornado Outbreaks

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Jason H. Keefer

• The Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Gustav (2008)

2011

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Alicia M. Bentley

Advisors: Lance Bosart and Jason Cordeira

• A Preliminary Climatology of Tropical Moisture Exports in the Southern Hemisphere

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Gabriel Susca-Lopata

• Searching for Melting-Induced Cold-Pool Circulations in an Oklahoma Winter Storm

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Sara Ganetis

Advisor: Lance Bosart

• Analysis of Banding in 26-27 December 2010 East Coast Blizzard