Professor Sonia Lasher-Trapp
Purdue University Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
CLOUD MICROPHYSICS GROUP HIGHLIGHTS
August 2007
EAS Awards Ceremony April 2006
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
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.
