Graduate students share work at interdisciplinary setting, 10th annual GradShow

Colorado State University graduate students shared innovative research, creative artistry and entrepreneurial projects while competing for $24,300 in scholarships at the 10^th annual GradShow. The Nov. 19 event connected 295 presenters from all eight colleges and special academic units, including solid representation from the atmospheric sciences. [Learn more on SOURCE]

• Delián Colón-Burgos presented “Understanding Tropical Oceanic Rain from Shipborne Radar and Satellite Observations,” receiving an honorable mention award of $100 in the category of Great Minds in Research: Presented by the Graduate School and OVPR.
• Lauren Beard presented “Seeing Inside Storms with Radar: How Air Motion Shapes Rainfall.”
• Hannah Grace Marti presented “Following the Air to Understand Urban New Particle Formation.”
• Olivia Lee presented “Contextualizing SWUS Precipitation In Future Mean Climates With Marine Heatwaves.”
• Megan Franke presented “Taller, Fiercer, and Faster: How Climate Change Reshapes Thunderstorms.”
• Nicholas Mesa presented “Global Analysis of Environmental Factors Underlying Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification.”
• Daniel Veloso Aguila presented “Modulation of Storm Features in South America by the MJO.”
• James Larson presented “Climate Variability Introduces Uncertainty into Future Emissions Pathways.”
• Jesse Robinett presented “Southeast Pacific Radiative Feedbacks Not Modulated by ENSO.”
• Kristina Moen presented research on the “Texture analysis of satellite imagery.” Moen works with Research Professor Imme Ebert-Uphoff out of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere and the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. Associate Professor Emily J. King based out of the Department of Mathematics serves as Moen’s primary Ph.D. advisor.

Community members, including CIRA Director and Atmospheric Science Professor Steven Miller, supported the #GradShow2025 by judging graduate student presentations.