2022 Projects

This page is dedicated to the 2022 Climate Science REU students and mentors. Each of the project topics and the student and mentor(s) assigned to each of the topics are listed below.



Title: Effects of Historical Land Policy on Land Use and Land Cover in Narok, Kenya

Student: Miriam Bartleson  (University of Michigan).

Mentors: Erica Smithwick, Susan Kotikot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Evaluation of Relationships Among Urban Indianapolis CO2 Emissions, Traffic Count Data, and COVID-19 Pandemic Case Data 

Student: Dora Courtney (Penn State University)

Mentors: Kenneth J Davis, Helen Kenion, Scott J Richardson, Natasha L Miles, and Jason Horne

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Investigating the Temporal Behavior of Surface Energy Fluxes Using a Single Column Atmospheric Model

Student: Felix Klitzke (Wellesley College)

Mentors: José D. Fuentes , Chris E. Forest, and Vikrant Sapkota

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Using Nudging to Isolate Boundary Layer Bias in Climate Models

Student: Grace Liu (University of Utah)

Mentor: Colin M. Zarzycki , Kyle Nardi, and Michelle Gore

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Isotopic Records of Cryptic Sedimentary Carbon Cycling

Student: Niwdé M. Rivera Maldonado (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Mayagüez).

Mentors: Matthew Fantle, Max Lloyd, and Christopher Gorski

 

 

 

 

Title: Investigating Change in Household Water Access in Relation to Climate in Bangladesh

Student: Jahmal Wallen  (Cornell University)

Mentors: Lauren M. T. Broyles, Emily L. Pakhtigian, and Alfonso Mejia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Using Remote Sensing Data to Identify Restorable Wetlands in Minnesota’s Big Slough Watershed

Student: Alison Bretti (Bryn Mawr College)

Mentor: Kimberly J. Van Meter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Examining Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean Cooling and Possible Drivers

Student: Grant Daniels (University of Utah)

Mentors: Allen Mewhinney and Sukyoung Lee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Developing an Automatic Rainband Detection Algorithm Based on Simulated Kinematic and Precipitation Structures from Hurricane Matthew (2016)

Student: Tyler J. Landsparger (Penn State University)

Mentors: Nicholas R. Barron and Anthony C. Didlake Jr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Changing Fingerprint of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation on Sea Surface Temperature in a Warming Climate

Student: Quinn Mackay (University of Notre Dame)

Mentors: Yifei Fan and Laifang Li

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Seasonal Forecast of West African Summer Monsoon Rainfall Using Ocean Salinity Observations

Student: Diego Ruiz Canseco (the University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Mentors: Christopher M. Sala, Xingcaho Chen, and Laifang Li

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Modeling Greenhouse Gas Variance as an Indicator of Local Emissions Using Machine Learning Techniques

Student: Michael Brown (North Carolina State University)

Mentors: Natasha L Miles, Kenneth J Davis, Scott J Richardson, and Geoffrey Roest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Direct Measurement of Aerosol pH

Student: Mikala Hammer (Concordia College)

Mentors: Komal Jaswal and Miriam Freedman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Evaluating Forecasts of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Model for the August 10, 2020, Derecho

Student: Phoebe Lin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Mentors: Yunji Zhang and David Stensrud

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Diurnal and Seasonal Variations in Air Pollution Across Sub-Saharan Africa

Student: Alexander Massa (Millersville University)

Mentor: Gregory S. Jenkins

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Quantifying the Resident-Based and Mobility-Based Human Exposure to PM 2.5 in San Francisco in 2021

Student: Matthew Varela  (University of Oklahoma)

Mentor: Manzhu Yu