Below is a list of awardees in the categories of student and very early career researcher (i.e., scientists within five years of their highest degree), selected for their poster or oral presentation at the Conference on Mesoscale Processes during the years indicated. Also listed are AMS Student Travel Award recipients, selected based on applications prior to the commencement of each conference.
1st Place Oral Presentation: Thomas Gowan, University of Utah: Banded and Cellular Lake-Effect Systems Interacting with Terrain in Idealized Simulations
2nd Place Oral Presentation (tied): Faith Groff, Colorado State University: Convectively Generated, Deep-Tropospheric Gravity Waves in Varying Thermodynamic and Vertical Wind Profiles
2nd Place Oral Presentation (tied): Dylan Reif, University of Oklahoma: An Analysis of the Vertical Velocity at the Leading Edge of a Density Current During PECAN
1st Place Poster Presentation: Peter Marinescu, Colorado State University: The Impacts of Aerosol Particles on Deep Convective Clouds - a Multimodel Assessment
2nd Place Poster Presentation (tied): Itinderjot Singh, University of Illinois: High-Resolution Idealized Simulations of Orographic Convection Initiation over the Sierras de Cordoba Mountains
2nd Place Poster Presentation (tied): McKenna Stanford, University of Utah: Development of a Stochastic Subgrid-scale Mixing Scheme in Kilometer-scale Deep Convection Simulations
Very Early Career Award: Yunji Zhang, Pennsylvania State University: Simultaneous Assimilation of Radar and All-Sky Satellite Radiance Observations for Convection-Allowing Ensemble Analysis and Prediction of Severe Thunderstorms
1st Place Oral Presentation: Lawrence Hanft, University of Nebraska: An observational and modeling study of mesoscale airmasses with High Theta-E
2nd Place Oral Presentation (tied): Leah Campbell, University of Utah: Mechanisms of lake-effect forcing and the Tug Hill precipitation maximum during OWLeS IOP2b
2nd Place Oral Presentation (tied): Hristo Chipilski, University of Oklahoma: Understanding MCS-bore interactions through high-resolution data assimilation and numerical simulations
1st Place Poster Presentation: Kathleen M. Magee, University of North Carolina: An observational study on quantifying distance to supercell-boundary interactions in the Great Plains
2nd Place Poster Presentation: Stacey Hitchcock, Colorado State University: Evolution of thermodynamic vertical profiles from pre- and post-convective environments of mesoscale convective systems observed during PECAN
Very Early Career Awards:
Lotte Bierdel, Ludwig-Maximilians University: Theoretical Aspects of Upscale Error Growth through the Mesoscales
May Wong, National Center for Atmospheric Research: Precipitation Spin-up Process in a Global Model with a Cloud-Permitting-Scale Mesh Refinement
1st Place Oral Presentation: James Ruppert, Colorado State University: The diurnal cycle and large-scale tropical climate
2nd Place Oral Presentation: Brice Coffer, North Carolina State University: Non-tornadic and tornadic VORTEX2 supercell simulations
1st Place Poster Presentation: Yunji Zhang, Peking University: Mesoscale practical predictability of the 20 May 2013 tornadic thunderstorm event in Oklahoma
2nd Place Poster Presentation: Annareli Morales, University of Michigan: Effect of latent heating on mesoscale vortex development during extreme precipitation: Colorado, September 2013
Very Early Career Award: Kristen Rasmussen, National Center for Atmospheric Research: Interactions between the convective lifecycle and terrain in subtropical South America
Student Travel Award: Leah Grant, Colorado State University
Student Travel Award: Gökhan Sever, North Carolina A&T State University
1st Place Oral Presentation: Jonathan Poterjoy, Penn State University: The predictability of tropical cyclogenesis examined through ensemble data assimilation experiments for Hurricane Karl (2010)
2nd Place Oral Presentation: Kristen Rasmussen, University of Washington: The mesoscale organization and dynamics of extreme convection in subtropical South America
1st Place Poster Presentation: Luke Madaus, University of Washington: Contributions of Dense Pressure Observations to Mesoscale Analyses and Forecasts
2nd Place Poster Presentation: Christopher MacIntosh, North Carolina State University: The 6 May 2010 Elevated Supercell Observed During VORTEX2
Best Oral Presentation (tied): Alison Nugent, Yale University: Triggered convection and orographic precipitation in the tropics: control parameters and predictability
Best Oral Presentation (tied): Rebecca Adams-Selin, Colorado State University: Examination of atmospheric waves associated with 13 March 2003 bow echo
Best Poster Presentation: Yumin Moon, University of Miami: Structures of spiral rainbands in numerically simulated tropical cyclones