Research Experience for Undergraduates

Every summer NSSL/CIMMS hosts undergraduate college students through the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). Daphne Zaras, CIMMS, is Lead Principal Investigator on the NSF grant and coordinates the REU activities. A summary of the REU students' research topics and mentors are listed below:

Erik Crosman - (University of Northern Colorado) - "Modeling Oklahoma City Rainfall Occurrence Using a First-Order Markov Chain" Mentor Harold Brooks (NSSL)

Stephanie Nordin - (St. Cloud State University) - "Significant Severe Thunderstorm Proximity Soundings" Mentor Harold Brooks (NSSL)

Addison Sears-Collins - (University of Virginia) - "A Climatology of Drizzle for North America" Mentor Bob Johns (CIMMS), Dave Schultz (CIMMS)

Shanna Sampson - (Millersville University) - "The Influence of Initial Conditions on the SPC 2001 Ensemble Cloud Model Forecasts" Mentor Kim Elmore (CIMMS)