ATS students receive awards at AMS conferences

A delayed congratulations to several ATS students who received awards from the American Meteorological Society at their annual meeting and chapter conferences earlier this year!

• Allie Mazurek – AMS second-place Best Student Oral Presentation for her talk “Using Tree Interpreter to Disaggregate a Random Forest’s Severe Weather Predictions” at the 23^rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science and AMS second-place Student Oral Presentation for her talk “When Do Machine Learning Forecasts Succeed and Fail? Evaluating Synoptic Regimes Associated With a Random Forest’s Good and Bad Severe Weather Predictions” at the 14th Conference on the Transition of Research to Operations.
• Christine Neumaier – AMS/NWA second-place Outstanding Student Presentation Award for the 2024 High Plains AMS/NWA Conference.
• Angelie Nieves Jiménez – AMS first-place Best Student Oral Presentation Award for her talk “Extreme Rainfall and Intensification Mechanisms in Hurricane Fiona (2022)” at the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones.
• Olivia Sablan – AMS Outstanding Student Oral Presentation Award for her talk “Quantifying smoke from sugarcane burning in Florida during the 2022-2023 season” at the 26^th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry.
• Kevin Yang – AMS Best Student Presentation Award for his talk “Quantifying Near-Cloud Aerosol Properties and Radiative Effects across Various Cloud Organizations Using Machine-Learning Techniques,” at the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions.

Congratulations again! The department is proud of all of its students.

Photo caption (from left to right, top to bottom row): Allie Mazurek, Christine Neumaier, Angelie Nieves Jiménez, Olivia Sablan, and Kevin Yang.