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FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Science Summer Camp in Taiwan
30 May - 3 June, 2005
An AWARE Program of the International Programs Division of the NSF
Student Participants
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Erick Adame
Hello! My name is Erick Adame. I am finishing my senior year at Oneonta State College located in beautiful central New York State. In just a few short months I'll finally have my B.S. in Meteorology with a minor in Mathematics. For the past two summers I have been a protégé in the Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS®) program. I have the great privilege of working on research this summer with the COSMIC project. I am anxious to further my understanding of the many advantages remote sensing may have in improving operational forecasts. My main interests are explosive cyclogenesis events off the east coast of the United States as well as tropical cyclones.
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Melissa Burt
Hello! My name is Melissa Burt. I will be graduating in May from Millersville University in Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Meteorology and a minor in Mathematics. In the fall I will be attending Colorado State University pursuing a M.S. in Atmospheric Science. For the past two summers I have been a protégé in the Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS®) program sponsered by NCAR/UCAR. I have had the opportunity to conduct research at NCAR and NOAA and I have loved every minute of it. My interests are climate change and variability. Outside of the science realm, I love to shop. |
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Rebecca Chan
My name is Rebecca Chan, and I am a M.S. student studying Paleoclimatology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. I received my B.S. in Meteorology with a minor in Mathematics from Plymouth State University in 2003. I am currently working on a NOAA-funded project with my advisor, Mathias Vuille, studying East Africa/Arabia climate variability during the Holocene. For the past 2 summers, I have been a protégé in the Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS®) program at UCAR. My primary research interests are climate variability in the tropics, climate modeling (clouds and aerosols), climate dynamics, and cloud physics.
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Anthony C. Didlake, Jr.
Hi, my name is Anthony C. Didlake, Jr. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, I currently attend Yale University where I am a double major in Geology & Geophysics and Applied Physics. Once I finish my junior year, I will return to UCAR this summer as a second year protégé in the Significant Opportunities for Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS®) program. I look forward to working on research this summer with the COSMIC project. My growing research interests include tropical meteorology and data assimilation. Writing, singing, learning, playing tennis, spending time with family, and meeting new people are a few of my favorite activities. |
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John Krasting
I am a Ph.D. student in Atmospheric Science in the Department of Environmental Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. I have a strong interest in regional-scale climate change, numerical modeling, and the interactions between science and public policy. For the past two years, I have been working with Dr. Anthony J. Broccoli (formerly from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, NJ) on regional scale changes in snowfall in Eastern North America. I also have my B.S. in meteorology and was also awarded the AMS Seal of Approval for my radio forecasts here in Central New Jersey. Aside from weather and climate, I also have many other interests including vocal performance, following major league baseball, going to the "Jersey Shore", and visiting my family and friends. |
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See-Chen (Gary) Lee
My name is See-Chen Lee, most people call me Gary. I am currently a 2nd-year-M.S. Student in School of Aeronautic and Astronautic at Purdue University and will continue with the PhD program. The research I have been working on since 2003 is using a dual-frequency GPS ground based array to detect and investigate the transient ionospheric perturbations in terms of Integral Electron Content, particularly for those disturbances with no obvious source. This research is advised by Eric Calais, Jennifer Haase and James Garrison, who is also working on GPS occultation. I spend about 10 years in Taipei before I came to United State therefore I will be glad to serve as a "guide" during COSMIC summer camp.
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Jonathan Spangler
Hello, my name is Jonathan Spangler, and I am currently employed as the Data Analysis Student Assistant II for the COSMIC (Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate) Program. I earned my B.A. from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA in December 2004. My primary functions within COSMIC include web design and maintenance, multimedia, and programming. I will be audio recording and filming the presentations, taking photographs, and doing various forms of media post-production for the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Science Summer Camp, all of which will be available on the COSMIC website sometime in June. Outside of work, I enjoy staying healthy and happy, whatever that takes.
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Daniel Steinhoff
Hello, my name is Dan Steinhoff. I am from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and received my B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May 2003. I will be a second-year Masters student at the Ohio State University this fall. Currently I am a research associate under Dr. Dave Bromwich with the Polar Meteorology Group at the Byrd Polar Research Center. My research interests focus on polar mesoscale meteorology. This year I have been researching several severe storms that struck McMurdo base in Antarctica, using the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System forecast model, automatic weather station data, and MODIS data. I also enjoy running, swimming, golfing, and watching baseball.
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Kenny Tapp
Howdy. My name is Kenny L. Tapp, originally from a small farm town in southeast Indiana, now a MSPM graduate student at the School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma. My BS in Meteorology is also from Oklahoma. During summer of 2004, I surveyed approximately 80 sites for the new modernized COOP network in New England. I work for the Oklahoma Climate Survey performing research on the Oklahoma Mesonet and providing support for NERON (NOAA's Environmental Real-Time Observation Network). My research interests primarily involve applications of surface observation mesoscale networks (e.g. integrating GPS receivers to estimate water vapor, etc.). My personal interests include photography, kayaking, hiking, and storm chasing in the Great Plains. I am looking forward to this opportunity to learn more about COSMIC, to meet new colleagues, and experience a new culture.
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Brian Ventre
My name is Brian Ventre, and I am an MS student at Purdue University. My research area is GPS radio occultation from an airborne platform. The particular aircraft involved with my research, the High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER), is administered by NCAR and will contain a variety of research equipment.The GPS Instrument System for Multistatic and Occultation Sensing (GISMOS) is being designed by Professors James Garrison and Jennifer Haase of Purdue, along with myself, for a variety of measurements and research objectives.
I am designing an algorithm and software to process occultation measurements received on the upcoming L2C band as well as the existing L1 civil signal. I look forward to the opportunities that this trip will present, and to meeting my fellow travelers.
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Henry Winterbottom
My name is Henry Winterbottom. I am a graduate of Drexel University, in
Philadelphia, PA where I earned a Bachelor of Science degree in
Physics. There, I acquired an extensive knowledge of numerical modeling
techniques and applied them, as an undergrad, to studying galactic
forming regions. Now, as a graduate student at the Florida State
University, I am excited to use and thus expand my understanding as I
apply abilities to numerical weather prediction. I am a student of Dr.
Xiaolei Zou and my current research involves data assimilation. Using
the COSMIC RO data, we have thus far developed a thermodynamic cloud
classification model. The continued improvements in the RO technique
will further improve the results in our model. I look forward to both
the opportunity of meeting and speaking with various other students and
professors involved with similar research and also at the opportunity
to visit Taiwan.
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Staff Participants
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Bill Kuo
Hi, My name is Bill Kuo. I graduated from the National Taiwan University in 1976, got my M.S. degree from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 1979, and received my Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 1983. I have been working at NCAR/UCAR since then. I am a senior scientist at NCAR, serving as the Head of the Mesoscale Prediction Group of the Microscale and Mesoscale Meteorology Division. Our group, which consists of ~20 staff, is responsible for the development and research applications of the MM5 model and the WRF model. I am also the Director of the COSMIC (Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate) Project at UCAR. The goal of COSMIC is to launch a constellation of six satellites, which will collect approximately 2,500 GPS radio occultation soundings per day, uniformly distributed around the globe. This is an exciting project, as we believe COSMIC will have a significant impact on operational weather prediction, climate analysis, and ionospheric research. My research interests include: Mei-yu (Chinese words for "plum rain") fronts, hurricanes, extratropical cyclones, mesoscale convective systems, mesoscale numerical weather prediction, and assimilation of remote sensing observations. In 1987, I served as the US Project Director for the Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment. In that experiment, we brought NOAA research aircraft and NCAR Doppler radar to Taiwan to study the Mei-yu front and mesoscale convective systems. Since then, I have developed many collaborative research projects with scientists in Taiwan, China, and Korea.
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Christian Rocken
Christan Rocken is chief scientist for UCAR's COSMIC (Constellation Observing System for Meteorology Ionsophere and Climate) program and directs the ground based GPS meteorology research activities at UCAR. He is one of the pioneers that first applied high accuracy GPS data to atmospheric sensing from the ground, and was a co-investigator of the GPS/MET radio occultation proof-of-concept mission. He conducted his undergraduate studies at the University of Cologne, Germany and came to the US as a Fulbright scholar to later receive his PhD in geophysics from the University of Colorado. Today Dr. Rocken is working on many aspects of the COSMIC mission with emphasis on the real-time COSMIC data analysis system. He conducts research on new ground based application of GPS atmospheric sensing, and serves as President of GPS Solutions, a small consulting firm in Boulder, Colorado.
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Kim Prinzi-Kimbro
Hello. My name is Kim Prinzi Kimbro and I am the COSMIC Administrator. I graduated from Colorado State University in 1991 with a B.S. in Business Administration/Human Resources. I have been with the exciting UCAR/COSMIC Program for 3 years and with a DOE national lab (hiring summer students and postdocs) prior to that. Even though I do not have a science background, I thoroughly enjoy working with my scientists in a research institution atmosphere. I am thrilled at the opportunity to help coordinate this special Science Summer Camp and be a part of the international collaboration among the students. I enjoy spending my time away from UCAR with my husband and two children traveling and skiing or hiking in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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