Adam Baker (B.S.  Meteorology;  North Carolina State University,  May 2007)
	Adam was born in Huntington, WV, but spent nearly all of his life growing up in the waterfront community of New Bern, near the coast of North Carolina. Various experiences with meteorological phenomena have sparked interest in Adam, but the most memorable were the numerous hurricane landfalls and Storm of the Century (1993). After finishing his undergraduate degree in May 2007, Adam is now working to finish his Master's degree in July 2009; his thesis project examines convection associated with Appalachian cold-air damming. He is fortunate to be working in close collaboration with the National Weather Service on this project. Apart from meteorology, Adam enjoys hunting, fishing, cooking with his wife, Megan, and Carolina Panthers football.
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Christian Cassell (B.S.  Meteorology;  North Carolina State University,  May 2006)
	Christian has been working on a COMET project to study the effects of upstream convection on downstream precipitation. He is extending earlier work by Kelly Mahoney through the development of a climatology of events, using composites and composite-initialied WRF model simulations.
	Email: cmcasse2@unity.ncsu.edu

 

Briana Gordon
	Briana grew up on a small island (Manhattan) and her very first memory is of Hurricane Gloria making landfall in NYC during August of 1985. She was almost 4. Since then, she has been fascinated with the weather. As a teenager, her family moved to Rockland County, NY, where Briana graduated from Nyack High School in 1999. She went on to earn a B.S. in Meteorology from Cornell University and a M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Washington. After working for several years in New York at The Princeton Review as teacher, tutor, and senior editor of test prep books and R&D, Briana decided to return to her passion and pursue M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Atmospheric Science at NCSU. In her spare time, Briana likes to read, learn/speak foreign languages, play the piano, travel, try new recipes, and spend time with good friends.
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