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Christina Aldereguia - Undergraduate Research Assistant |
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Current Research:
Investigating the drizzle cases from the VOCALS project utilizing transitional periods, the diurnal cycle, and blob detection.
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Personal Interests: Tennis, warmth, baseball, and other sports, eating good food.
Current Hometown: Cary, NC
Attended: Apex High School
Favorite Movies: Titanic, Jumanji, Frailty, the Librarian, October Sky
Favorite Quote: "If you are not to be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing." - Ben Franklin
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Michael Tai Bryant - Undergraduate Research Assistant |
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Current Research:
Organizing storm data collected from Poga Mountain, creating graphs from the data to check any correllations,
and placing the data and graphs on a web page. Analyzing the virticle profile of storms.
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Personal Interests:
Protecting the environment, stocks, making money, baseball, basketball, football, Star Trek
Current Hometown: Apex, North Carolina
Attended: Apex High School
Extra Comment: AV malformation rupture at the age of six
Favorite Movies:
Top Gun, Waterboy, Zoolander
Favorite Quote:
"All that is needed for the triumph of evil is for a good man to do nothing." - Edmund Burke Tears of the Sun
Favorite Website:
National Weather Service homepage
WRAL
AIRNow - Air Quality
yahoo finance
MSN money
Boston Red Soxs
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Casey Burleyson - Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant |
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Research Interests:
I am working to better understand the relationship
between physical precipitation processes and the patterns that manifest
from their occurrence. Along the way I am analyzing in-situ and remotely
sensed observations of marine stratocumulus in the southeastern Pacific
from the VOCALS experiment. My previous work has involved virga observed
by vertically pointing radar and the enhancement of precipitation by small
islands in the tropical open ocean.
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Education:
B.S. Meteorology - N.C. State University - 2007
M.S. Applied Mathematics - Columbia University - 2008
Personal Interests:
Outside of meteorology I enjoy reading non-fiction
books, mainly post-WWII political history and biographies. I'm an avid
fan of The Beatles (particularly John Lennon) and some may argue that I'm
obsessed with baseball - although I prefer to think of it as maintaining a
healthy curiosity.
Hometown: Mt. Pleasant, NC
Favorite Quotes:
""To become really good at something, everyone needs a time in their life
where they put their heart and soul into it"
Chuck Doswell
"Symmetry is nice but asymmetry."
Anonymous
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Jeff Cuningham - Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant |
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Current Research:
Broadly--radar meteorology. Future research will likely include the use of radar observations in the Pacific Northwest to improve our general understanding of orographically induced precipitation.
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Education:
B.S. Meteorology - United States Air Force Academy, CO - 2002
M.S. Meteorology - Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, CA - 2006
Thesis: Applying Ensemble Prediction Systems to Department of Defense Operations
Publications:
Eckel, F. A., J. Cunningham, and D. Hetke, 2008: "Weather and the Calculated Risk: Exploiting Forecast Uncertainty for Operational Risk Management" Air and Space Power Journal, 22, 71-82.
Career:
I am a Weather Officer in the United States Air Force and have been on active duty since commissioning in 2002. I've been assigned to various locations across the world and have enjoyed roles as an operational forecaster, weather briefer, and scientist during those assignments.
Personal Interests:
I love spending time with my beautiful wife and lovely daughters. I also enjoy the outdoors, hiking, biking, and gardening.
Hometown: Ocala, FL
Favorite Quote:
"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends." - John 15:13
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Clay McGee - Undergraduate Research Assistant |
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Current Research:
Investigating how topographic roughness enhances precipitation in the Pacific Northwest United States, processing Parsivel disdrometer data and inferring characteristics such as the drop-size distribution of rain events.
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Personal Interests:
Drum and bugle corps, playing the trumpet, politics, N.C. State football and basketball, seeing mixed precipitation make it to the ground in North Carolina.
Hometown: Charlotte, NC
Favorite Movies:
What About Bob?, The Emperor's New Groove, My Cousin Vinny
Favorite Quote:
"Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." --Joshua 1:9
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Kate Rojowsky - M.S. Graduate Research Assistant |
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Current Research:
Refining and applying a cell tracking algorithm to WSR-88D radar data from Portland, OR to study the lifecycle of intermittent convective cells that propagate over the Cascade Mountains.
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Education:
B.S. Atmospheric Sciences - Stony Brook University - 2008
Personal Interests:
Volleyball, billiards, fishing and gluten-free fine foods.
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Favorite Movies:
Anchorman, The Dark Knight, Finding Nemo
Favorite Quote:
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." (Mark Twain)
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Dr. Sandra Yuter - Imperious Leader |
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Selected Publications:
www4.ncsu.edu/~seyuter/pubs.html
Personal Interests:
science fiction, cat watching, Lego Ultimate Collector
Favorites:
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Eureka, Battlestar Galactica, Good Eats
Hometown: Holly Springs, NC
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Tim - The Enchanter |
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Current Research:
- Optimization of the mithril inscribing technique for Dwarven master runes using the Felbeard Dreadhammer method.
- Arithmagical modeling of the lost Flamel alchemical transmutations.
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Education:
B.S. Wizardry - Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry - 1897
M.S. Thaumaturgy - Salem Institute for Magic - 1899
Ph.D. Arcane Runic Studies - Massachusetts Institute of Technomancy - 2002
Selected Publications:
Cleese, J., T. Jones, T. Enchanter, 2003: Computational fluid dynamic modeling of the air speed of an unladen European Swallow. J. Pract. Aerodyn., 87, 1456-1471.
Enchanter, T., J. Cleese, D. Adams, 2004: The meaning of life, the universe, and everything: a quantitative study. Eur. J. Metaphy., 42, 10266-10284.
Enchanter, T., 2004: Rune words and their uses in daemon slaying and beer pong. Daemonology and Drinking Games, 245, 486-497.
Personal Interests:
Archery, Raising the Dead, Ten Pen Bowling, Blacksmithing, Grail Questing, Debauchery, and Darts
Hometown: Little Whinging, Surrey, UK
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