Daniel Cunningham received the Student Assistantship award for AMS 2013 in January. so he’ll get room and board in a hotel right next to the conference for the whole week of the conference. This is in addition to his presentation at the AMS 2013 Student conference. Congratulations!
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AMS Student Assistantship
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Interdisciplinary speaker series
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Since I’m on the committee that is organizing our department Speaker Series, I thought I’d pass along the announcement of the upcoming speakers. 3 in the fall semester, but 6 or 7 in the spring. one of our committee goals was to find speakers with a range of expertise that matched the breadth of disciplines in the GeoEarth department. I think we met that goal, and just as importantly, all the talks sound like they’ll be really interesting. UPDATED 2012-12-10 to reflect the Geography and Earth Sciences move to a new web server (I’m also on the GES committee that helped manage that move).
Presentations at AMS 2013
Both Daniel and I will be travelling to Austin Texas for the 2013 American Meteorological Society meeting. Thousands of students and scientists attend this meeting to discuss topics ranging from weather forecasting to climate modeling to air quality. My research on fire-climate interactions may not seem to fit at first, but one of the key inputs to my fire model is lightning and it turns out there is a very large number of presentations by experts in all aspects of lightning. That’s the group of scientists I’ll be presenting to in a talk called “The Role of Lightning in Simulations of the Spatiotemporal Distribution of Global Fire“. I’m looking forward to getting feedback from the people who study lightning more rigorously than I do. Daniel will present “Extending the Time Series of Satellite-Based Lightning Observations” as a poster at the AMS student conference. This is the research he is doing for his Honors thesis.
Changes to Global Environmental Change webpage
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just a few notes about the changes to my teaching webpage for my Global Environmental Change (ESCI 3000 this semester – Fall 2012, expected to be ESCI 3101 by Fall 2013) webpage. i updated just about everything there so the interface would be more useful for students, but there are many links to climate-related internet sources for discussion, books, visualizations, and of course DATA related to climate science. i will point out that the NCDC websites and the CMIP5 websites are especially useful. CMIP5 is family of model experiments that will support IPCC AR5 which is being written and revised this year and expected to be published sometime in 2013. CMIP3, I think, were the model experiments that supported IPCC AR4 publications in 2007.
More lightning and fire research
Daniel Cunningham will continue his research from the CRS program during the 2012-13 academic year with Dr Magi in the form of Independent Study. He presented a poster at the CRS Symposium on 25 July 2012 and discussed his research experience with a China-US exchange program at UNC Charlotte as well. We plan to move the research forward and present our results at the AMS Annual Meeting in January 2013.
Charlotte Research Scholars 2012
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Daniel Cunningham (junior in Meteorology BSc program) is one of the 50 UNC Charlotte undergraduates selected from a pool of over 170 applicants to receive funding for summer research from the inaugural Charlotte Research Scholars (CRS) program, sponsored by UNC Charlotte Academic Affairs. Daniel will be working with Dr Magi from June-July 2012 on a project titled ‘Lightning and Fires’. We will work on enhancing a lightning dataset, test a couple of hypotheses, and develop a better understanding of how lightning and fire interact. More news as it develops, but congrats to Daniel!