This summer and fall have quite busy with many projects wrapping up and new projects beginning! In late September, I passed my PhD Proposal, which is a major milestone in my progress as a graduate student.

Additionally during this time, I have had two first-author papers accepted for publication and now available online! The first one is a data description paper of the NASA GPM Ground Validation Campaign that has been at UConn since 2021; this was accepted for publication in Earth System Science Data and is currently available as a preprint: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-162.

The other paper is about assessing how dynamic and thermodynamic variability in atmospheric fields from different initial and boundary conditions in numerical models impact precipitation processes during winter storms. Here, we found that thermodynamic variables contributed more variability to precipitation totals and microphysical species, and that relative humidity contributed the most variability of all the different fields. The results from this study point to the importance of accurate representation of water vapor in the atmosphere and the need for additional improvement in assimilation of relative humidity into model starting conditions. The paper was accepted and published online with JGR Atmosphere’s: https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD044240

If you are interested in any of this work, please reach out to me! I will also be at AGU in New Orleans and AMS in Houston this coming December and January! The focus over the remainder of the fall is on my NASA FINESST supported project to better understand NASA’s modeling capabilities in mid-latitude winter storms and how high-resolution observations of snowfall can improve our understanding of microphysical processes with snow.