CLOUD MICROPHYSICS GROUP
Professor Sonia Lasher-Trapp
Purdue University Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
 

 

 

Local Weather

 

 

Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
550 Stadium Mall Drive
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: 765.494.3258
Fax: 765.496.1210

 

 

 

 

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

August 2007

 

EAS Awards Ceremony April 2006

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The annual EAS Department Awards Ceremony and Banquet was held on Friday, April 13th. Several members of the Cloud Microphysics team received awards this year!

 

 

Jen Bewley, recipient of the Henry Silver Graduate Student Scholarship

 

 

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Colleen Henry, recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student Award in EAS

 

Amanda Sheffield, recipient of Melhorn Undergraduate Scholarship and EAS Outstanding Sophomore Award

 

Recent Graduates

Ashley Shackelford finished her B.S. in Atmospheric Science in May 2007, and completed the requirements for the EAS Honors program. Ashley's undergraduate thesis, which she presented at both a departmental seminar and the Butler Undergraduate Conference in Indianapolis, was a numerical modeling study entitled The Importance of Giant Aerosol to Supercooled Large Drop Formation in Stratiform Clouds. Ashley will be joining the Physics department at Michigan Tech. University in Fall 2007, working with Prof. Will Cantrell.

Justin Stachnik completed his M.S. in Atmospheric Science in July 2007. Justin's thesis, entitled Numerical Simulation and Microphysical Evaluation of a Severe Hailstorm Using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model, found some interesting dependencies upon the choice of microphysical parameterization used in the WRF model. A paper on his work will be submitted later this fall. Justin will be joining the Atmospheric Science department at Texas A&M University in Fall 2007, working with Prof. Courtney Schumacher.

 

Latest Publications

Lasher-Trapp, S., and J. P. Stachnik, 2007: Giant and ultragiant aerosol particle variability over the Eastern Great Lakes region. J. Appl. Meteor. and Climatol., 46, 651-659.