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Ehsan Mosadegh publishes manuscript

January 2023: Atmospheric Sciences Ph.D. student Ehsan Mosadegh (Advisor: Professor Anne Nolin) published his first manuscript, “A New Data Processing System for Generating Sea Ice Surface Roughness Products from the Multi-Angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) Imagery.”

Ehsan’s work was featured in JPL-MISR News: New maps of Arctic Ocean ice roughness demonstrate the value of NASA satellite’s instrument’s multiangular imagery

Mohammad Sadrian presents at the American Geophysical Union

January 2023: Atmospheric Sciences Ph.D. student Mohammad Sadrian (Advisor: Professor Wendy Calvin)  presented his research at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (Chicago, IL, December 2022). Also, Mohammad published his second 1st-author paper, "Spectral Characterization of Parent Soils From Globally Important Dust Aerosol Entrainment Regions."

Palina Bahdanovich presents at American Meteorological Society

Atmospheric Sciences Ph.D. student Palina Bahdanovich (Advisor: Associate Professor Vera Samburova) presented her research at the 103rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (Denver, CO, January 8, 2023). Title: “Qualitative Analysis of Bioaerosol Chemical Composition and Shift Using ¹H-NMR Spectroscopy.”

Ph.D. student Kacie Shourd receives 2022-23 NEVADA NASA Space Grant Fellowship

Advisor: Mike Kaplan

Title: An Analysis of Anomalous Heating over the U.S. Elevated Plateau, Downstream Derecho Corridor Organization, and Resultant Extreme Convection

Master’s student Yasaman (Yasi) Raeofy receives 2022-23 NEVADA NASA Space Grant Fellowship

Advisor: Vera Samburova, co-advisor: Hans Moosmüller

Title: Toward Satellite Remote Sensing of Wildfire Effects on Soil Water Repellency

Master’s student Björn Bingham receives 2022-23 NEVADA NASA Space Grant Fellowship

Advisor: Xiaoliang Wang

Title: Modeling of Smoke Emissions and Transport in Spacecraft under Reduced Gravity