{"id":74,"date":"2014-09-17T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T14:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:14:47","slug":"current-prospective-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/current-prospective-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Current and Prospective Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Current Students:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I currently advise a mix of Master&#8217;s and Ph.D. students. Use the page menu at the left to read more about the students in my research group, otherwise known as Implicit None! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/668\/2025\/09\/implicitnone_grouplogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/668\/2025\/09\/implicitnone_grouplogo-1024x479.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-427\" style=\"width:714px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/668\/2025\/09\/implicitnone_grouplogo-1024x479.png 1024w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/668\/2025\/09\/implicitnone_grouplogo-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/668\/2025\/09\/implicitnone_grouplogo-768x359.png 768w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/668\/2025\/09\/implicitnone_grouplogo-1536x718.png 1536w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/668\/2025\/09\/implicitnone_grouplogo.png 2033w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prospective Students:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am always interested in finding motivated and hard-working students! Potential research topics include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Forecasting the maintenance or demise of severe thunderstorms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Numerical modeling of severe thunderstorms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Storms interacting with complex terrain<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The impact of environmental heterogeneity on storm evolution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you find any of the above topics of interest to you, please be sure to check out my <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/research\/\">research page<\/a> and contact me (see info at right) for more information. Interested students should also check out the following website for more information on various programs and applying to UNC Charlotte:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/geoearth.uncc.edu\/masters-programs\/masters-earth-sciences\">Master of Science in Earth Science<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/geoearth.uncc.edu\/phd-programs\/geography\">Ph.D. in Geography<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ines.uncc.edu\/\">Ph.D. in Infrastructure and Environmental Systems<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The UNC Charlotte <a href=\"http:\/\/graduateschool.uncc.edu\/future-students\">Graduate School<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Former Students:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kathleen Magee (M.S., 2017), now at NWS WFO Huntsville, AL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cody Ledbetter (M.S., 2018), now at NWS WFO Baltimore\/DC (Sterling, VA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Austin Mansfield (M.S., 2019), now a GIS analyst at Goochland County, VA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Richard Sirico (M.S., 2020), now at WeatherWorks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lindsay Hochstatter (M.S., 2021), now at NWS WFO Peachtree City, GA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Katherine McKeown (M.S., 2021), now a post-doc in Radar Science Group at Stony Brook University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sarah Purpura (M.S., 2021), now at Mercury Insurance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ethan O&#8217;Neill (M.S., 2025), now a Ph.D. student at Central Michigan University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matthew Gropp (M.S. 2017, Ph.D. 2025), now at NWS WFO Columbia, SC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Students: I currently advise a mix of Master&#8217;s and Ph.D. students. 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Potential research topics include: If you find any of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":829,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/casey-davenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}