News
2024
- Graduate students Yan Xie and Jack Richter both won 2024 AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Awards and 2024 AGU Precipitation Technical Committee Student Awards for their Oral Presentations in the Hydrology section
- Graduate student Jack Richter was awarded a 2023 NASA FINESST! Congratulations Jack!
- Congratulations to (now) Dr. Tristan Rendfrey, who defended his PhD in August!
- Graduate student Yan Xie has a new publication out in JGR: Atmospheres. This work examined the impact of of rain-on-snow event on surface albedo in the Alaskan Arctic
- Group members Fraser King and Marian Mateling have published new and exciting datasets with accompanying papers. Check them out here:
- Graduate Student Yan Xie was selected for a 2024-2025 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Award. Congrats to Yan!
- Dr. Claire Pettersen and the University of Michigan are leading a new field campaign, funded by the National Science Foundation, aimed at improving forecasts of snowfall and estimates of how climate change will impact snowpack and water availability in the western U.S. mountains. The field campaign brings together scientists from the University of Michigan, the University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, University of Utah, Colorado State University, and Stony Brook University.
- Graduate student Tristan Rendfrey has a new publication out in JGR: Atmospheres. This work used CloudSat observations to show that enhanced moisture transport increased snowfall over Antarctica
2023
- Congratulations to (now) Dr. Julia Shates, who defended her PhD in August! She is starting a postdoctoral fellowship at NASA JPL in the Fall!
- Dr. Claire Pettersen was selected as a Mercator Fellow with Phase III of the Arctic Amplification (AC)3 project funded by the German Research Foundation. Read more about (AC)3 here:
- Dr. Claire Pettersen and Dr. Aronne Merrelli were selected as part of the new NASA Earth Venture Instrument satellite mission, PolSIR. The goal of PolSIR is to observe ice clouds in the tropics and determine how and why they change throughout the day:
- Group member John Delpizzo received a Master of Engineering Degree in Meteorology in May 2023. Congrats John!
- Researcher Marian Mateling has a new publication out in JGR: Atmospheres. This research used CloudSat observations to evaluate cloud and snowfall characteristics during Marine Cold-Air Outbreak conditions:
- Graduate student Julia Shates has a new publication out in JGR: Atmospheres. This work evaluated rain-snow levels at Marquette, Michigan using ground-based observations:
- Yan Xie (co-Advised by Prof. Mark Flanner) joined the group as a Ph.D. Candidate in Winter 2023!
2022
- Graduate Student Julia Shates‘ AGU oral presentation was recognized with an 2022 AGU Precipitation Student Award. Congrats Julia!
- Jack Richter and Alanna Wedum joined the research group as a graduate students in Fall 2022!
- Undergraduate student Anna Eifert joined the group for Summer 2022 as part of the CLaSP REU program, PICASSO:
- Tristan Rendfrey (co-Advised by Prof. Jeremy Bassis) joined the group as a Ph.D. Candidate in Winter 2022!
- Dr. Claire Pettersen and colleagues published a paper in JGR: Atmospheres on the influence of atmospheric blocking in the Euro-Atlantic region on snowfall processes at Summit Station, Greenland:
2021
- Researcher Marian Mateling has a new publication out in JGR: Atmospheres. This work examined the impacts of inland Atmospheric Rivers on cold-season precipitation:
- Graduate student Julia Shates has a recent publication in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology comparing snowfall regimes at two sites in Scandinavia:
- Undergraduate student Jack Richter is joining the research group for Summer 2021 (and hopefully beyond). Jack will be exploring the differences in snow microphysical properties during atmospheric river events.
- Graduate student Julia Shates was awarded a 2021 NASA FINESST! Congratulations to Julia!
- Dr. Claire Pettersen was awarded a NASA New (Early Career) Award:
- Recent work outlining the capabilities of the Precipitation Imaging Package (PIP) to partition precipitation phase has been published in Remote Sensing. This was a collaborative effort by Dr. Claire Pettersen and colleagues from FMI, UW, and NASA:
2020
- Recent work outlining the capabilities of the Precipitation Imaging Package (PIP) to detect snowfall characteristics has been published in Atmosphere. This was a collaborative effort by Dr. Claire Pettersen and colleagues from FMI, UW, and NASA:
- Collaborator Dr. Elin McIlhattan (UW) has a new publication out in The Cryosphere about snowfall regimes over the Greenland Ice Sheet observed using the CloudSat and CALIPSO satellites:
- Dr. Claire Pettersen and colleagues published a paper in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology outlining the snowfall modes at the enhanced observing suite at the National Weather Service in Marquette, Michigan:
2019
- Dr. Claire Pettersen was awarded a grant with the NASA Precipitation Measurement Mission (PMM) science team. Our group will be researching the impacts of high-latitude atmospheric rivers on precipitation processes:
- Collaborator Prof. Ralf Bennartz (Vanderbilt University) has a new publication out examining snowfall over Greenland using the CloudSat satellite:
2018
- Dr. Claire Pettersen has a new publication out in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics about the different snowfall regimes observed over the high plateau of the central Greenland Ice Sheet:
