Colloquia for Spring 2026
Jul 02, 2026
MS Defense
“Mobile measurements of ozone, its precursors, and air toxics at the local and regional scale during the Colorado Front Range OZone Experiment (FROZE 2025)”
By Jared Stickney
Advisor: Jeff Collett
Jun 29, 2026
MS Defense
“Towards Goes Retrievals of Near-Cloud Aerosols: Machine Learning Development and Assessment of Radiative Effects”
By Olivia Pierpaoli
Advisor: Christine Chiu
Jun 22, 2026
MS Defense
“The Role of Soil Moisture Gradients in Summertime Convection Initiation over the Colorado Front Range: An Idealized Numerical Modeling Study”
By Evan Cowden
Advisor: Russ Schumacher
May 01, 2026
PhD Defense
“A Multi-Scale Ingredients-Based Framework for Meiyu-Season Extreme Rainfall over Taiwan”
By Warittha "Rung" Panasawatwong
Advisor: Michael Bell and Kristen Rasmussen
Mar 25, 2026
PhD Defense
“From Megacities to Wildfire Smoke: Observational Constraints on Atmospheric Ammonia”
By Emily Lill
Advisor: Emily Fischer
Mar 23, 2026
MS Defense
“Systematic Relationships Between Overshooting Top Characteristics and Anvil Life Cycle Observed with Geostationary Satellites”
By Rachael Auth
Advisor: Sue van den Heever
Feb 25, 2026
MS Defense
“Revisiting the Importance of a Southern Ocean Pattern Effect”
By Killian McSweeney
Advisor: Maria Rugenstein
Feb 04, 2026
MS Defense
“Contextualizing Past and Future Mean Southwest U.S. Precipitation with Marine Heatwaves”
By Olivia Lee
Advisor: Maria Rugenstein