My former post-docs, undergraduate and graduate students, their research, and where they went

Presentations authored or co-authored by my students

Poster presentations

Oral presentations

Undergraduate students

• Todd Fortun, 2009. Investigations on the sensitivity of predicted air quality to the uncertainty in anthropogenic emissions.Now at St. Cloud University.
• Jessica Beres, 2009. Comparison of WRF model outputs and MODIS image products for cloud presence: A case study.Now at Marshall University.
• David Henderson, 2007. Evaluation of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model over Siberia, B.S. at PennState University 2008, now at CSU for a M.S..
• Anastasia Gennady Yanchilina, 2006. Snow parameter caused uncertainty of predicted snow metamorphism processes, Now at: Creighton University, Nebraska. B.S. in meteorology in 2009. Now continuing for a M.S.
• Anne Cherry, 2003. Evaluation of MM5 simulations with HTSVS with and without inclusion of soil-frost parameterization Department of Physics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
• Pamela Spier, 2003. Arctic region evaluation of the Hydro-Thermodynamic Soil Vegetation Scheme (HTSVS) Finished with a BS in Atmospheric Science from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Now scientific programmer at a software company in NY
• Amy Rulo, 2002. Uncertainty analysis on the soil physical and plant physiological parameters used in HTSVS finished with a BS from University of Colorado at Denver, now employed as a mathematician in Las Vegas, email: ajrulo 'at' hotmail.com
• Leslie Prochaska, 2002. Uncertainty analysis on the soil physical and plant physiological parameters used in OSULSM Now at University of North Texas, email: spicaleslie 'at' yahoo.com
• Mark Olson, 2001-2002. Investigations on the impact of aerosol release and heat island effect on downwind precipitation Now at University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Statistics, email: ftmao 'at' uaf.edu
• Manuela Barth, 1999-2000. Recharge of ground water in climate models. Continued for a Ph.D., worked at Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, anmanu 'at' gmx.de
• Claudia Stolle1997-1998, Diplom University of Leipzig, Ph.D. at Institute for Meteorology, University Leipzig, Post-doc at GfZ Potsdam, email: stolle ' at' gfz-potsdam.de
• Sebastian Schmidt, 1997-1998. Development of an emission module for GESIMA within the framework of TFS Got a position at Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig

Graduate students

• Debasish Pai Mazumder, Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, 2005-2009. He received his bachelor degree in physics in 2002 from the University of Calcutta, India. He obtained his master degree in atmospheric science in 2004 from the same university. His thesis dealt with on research on the kinetic energy spectra of turbulence in the thermally stratified atmospheric surface layer. He worked at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi as a project associate on mesoscale modeling in 2005. He received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Alaska, Department of Atmospheric Sciences for a thesis entitled A concept to access the performance of a permafrost model run fully coupled with a climate model. After graduation he accepted a post-doc position at University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Canada.
• Stacy E. Porter, MS in atmospheric sciences, 2007-2009. Phi Kappa Pi. Stacy received her B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences in December 2006 at the University of North Carolina in Asheville. She worked as a documentation analyst at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC. She earned a M.S. degree in atmospheric sciences from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Atmospheric Sciences with a thesis entitled Investigation of the impact of ship emissions on atmospheric composition and deposition in remote, coastal landscapes of southwest Alaska. She now is pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Ohio.
• Morgan E. Brown, now Morgan B. Yarker, M.S., 2006-2008. She recieved her M.S. in atmospheric sciences for a thesis entitled Impact of local external forcing of the 2006 Augustine Volcano eruption on regional weather conditions. Now at University of Iowa for a Ph.D. in science education
• Zhao Li, PhD in atmospheric sciences, 2002-2007. Zhao received her Ph.D. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, for a thesis entitled Investigations on the impacts of land-cover changes and/or increased CO₂ concentrations on four regional water cycles and their interactions with the global water cycle. She did a post-doc at University Maryland/NASA before taking a position at SAIC.
• Balachandru Narapusetty, MS in 2005, Evaluation of the soil model of the Hydro-Thermodynamics Soil Vegetation Scheme (HTSVS) by observations and a Galerkin weak finite element scheme, now PhD graduate student at COLA.
• Mihailo Jankov, M.S. in atmospheric sciences, 2002-2005. Uncertainty analysis on the plant physiological and soil physical parameters used in land surface models. Continued for a PhD student at University of Oslo, physics department.
• Ipshita Majhi, M.S. in atmospheric sciences, 2002-2004. Evaluation of land surface models Optional Practical Training at UAF in 2004-2005, now Ph.D. student in environmental engineering at UAF
• Katja Friedrich, Diploma 1999, Numerische Untersuchungen zur Sensitivität des Bowen-Verhaeltnisses (Numerical Investigations on the sensitivity of the Bowen ratio), continued for Ph.D. at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute for Physics, University Munich, 2003-2004 post-doc at CIRES, Boulder, 2005-2007 Meteo Swiss, since 2008 assistant professor at University of Colorado.
• Holger Fritsch, M.S. in meteorology, 1999. Parametrisierung von Bodenfeuchte und Bodentemperatur fuer ein meoskaliges Modell (Parameterization of soil moisture and soil temperature for a mesoscale model). Continued for a PhD at Max-Planck-Institute, Jena
• Kristina Fröhlich, Diploma in meteorology, 2001. Schneedeckenparametrisierung für ein mesoskaliges Modell (Parameterizing snow coverage for a mesoscale model). Contuinued for a PhD at Institute for Meteorology, University Leipzig. Now at German Weather Service, Offenbach.
• Wolfram Rühaak, Ph.D. graduate student 1999-2000. Development of modules for groundwater recharge, Institute for Environmental Questions, Hannover, 200-2003, Ph.D. ETH Aachen, 2009, now at WASY, Berlin