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Fall 2005
NSSL welcomes Ming Fang, a new CIMMS employee who is finishing his Ph.D. in meteorology at the University of Oklahoma (OU). Ming will work to develop advanced radar applications as part of WISH.
Allison Silveira joined NSSL to work on thunderstorm electrification modeling. She just finished her M.S. degree at OU and is beginning her Ph.D.
Jack Kain, formerly CIMMS, has accepted a federal Meteorologist position in the Forecast Research and Development Division. Jack specializes in numerical modeling research, moving the results of research into operations, and Storm Prediction Center interactions.
Hongping Yang is visiting for eight months from the Institute of Heavy Rain in Wuhan, Hubei province, China to work with Jian Zhang on radar applications.
Lulin Song, a programmer on the WDSS-II project, moved to New York City to join her family.
Daphne Zaras has resigned as NSSL's Outreach Coordinator. She will continue to work part-time running REU and maintaining the CIMMS external web pages. This will also give her more time to finish her Ph.D. in Adult and Higher Education at OU!
NSEA, the NSSL/CIMMS and SPC employee association, voted to donate $1000 of its funds to the local chapter of the American Red Cross, designated for Hurricane Katrina evacuees. In a spontaneous fundraising effort, NSEA also collected $495 in donated cash used to purchase bath towels, cases of canned corn and peas, and commercial size cans of pork-n-beans and pinto beans used by the Salvation Army for evacuees in Norman.
The 2004 Outstanding Scientific Papers were announced in August, 2005 by NOAA's Office of Atmospheric Research (OAR). One of the papers receiving this honor was authored by CIMMS scientists Igor R. Ivic and Sebastian Torres and NSSL's Dusan Zrnic. The paper, "Whitening in Range to Improve Weather Radar Spectral Moments Estimates. Part II: Experimental Evaluation," was published in the "Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology."
Dave Schultz (CIMMS) and Jeff Trapp (formerly CIMMS) were the recipients of the first annual CIMMS Outstanding Paper Award for their paper "Nonclassical cold-frontal structure caused by dry subcloud air in northern Utah during the Intermountain Precipitation Experiment (IPEX)," The paper was published in Monthly Weather Review in 2003. This new CIMMS award was created to recognize outstanding scholarship by CIMMS scientists.