News

October 21-23, 2024
Sean presents on CASPR Lab efforts at the AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms.
September 19, 2024
John David presents on his summer Honors Capstone Research with the CASPR Lab at the UAH Undergraduate Research Symposium. At the symposium, John David was awarded first prize for having the best poster of all UAH Honors students. Congratulations, John David!
August 7, 2024
Chris wins second place overall in the international Weather Challenge forecasting contest (WxChallenge). WxChallenge is the preeminent weather forecasting challenge for universities, with nearly 10,000 participants. Chris forecasted 4 days per week for a full academic year, for a variety of cities in North America. This fantastic achievement was highlighted by UAH.
June 10, 2024
John David Goode joins the group as part of an Honors Capstone Research project. John David is a current Atmospheric and Earth Science major at UAH. Welcome John David!
June 10, 2024
John David Goode joins the group as part of an Honors Capstone Research project. John David is a current Atmospheric and Earth Science major at UAH. Welcome John David!
June 1, 2024
Kyra Britton joins the group as a new MS student. Kyra graduated with a BS in Meteorology from Florida State University. Welcome Kyra!
May 8, 2024
Chris, Kyra, and Sean participate as part of UAH's education day at the Rocket City Trash Pandas stadium.
April 23-25, 2024
Sean presents on tobac at the INCUS/AOS/GEWEX Tracking Workshop in New York City.
January 28-February 1, 2024
Sean presents CASPR Lab research at the annual American Meteorological Society meeting in Baltimore, MD.
November 28, 2023
The CASPR Lab's new funding to study southeastern clouds and storms from the US Department of Energy Atmospheric System Research program was highlighted by UAH.
October 5, 2023
Sean joins the Unidata Users Committee and is highlighted in an article discussing new members.
September 28, 2023
Two group members, Dr. Sean Freeman and Sydney Rau, a senior undergraduate student, participated in outreach to SPARK Academy at Cowart in Athens, AL. The effort was part of the broader efforts in outreach from the UAH NSF MAPNet facility.
August 14, 2023
Chris Kwinta joins the group as a new MS student. Chris joins us from Northern Illinois University, where he majored in Meteorology. Welcome, Chris!
August 14, 2023
Sean's recent Department of Energy grant was highlighted by UAH's communications team.
July 24-27, 2023
Sean attends NASA's New PI Launchpad, a workshop for prospective NASA satellite mission proposers, held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
June 13-14, 2023
Sean attends the NASA INvestigation of Convective UpdraftS (INCUS) science retreat in Fort Collins, CO. At the retreat, Sean presented on recent updates to tobac and the use of tobac in tracking storms globally.
June 8, 2023
Sydney Rau, a fourth-year undergraduate student at UAH in Atmospheric and Earth Science, starts in the group. Welcome, Sydney!
May 8, 2023
Ethan Hanan, a third-year undergraduate student at UAH, starts in the group. Welcome, Ethan!
April 24-28, 2023
Sean presents on recent tracking work using tobac at the European Geophysical Union General Congress in Vienna.
April 17-21, 2023
Sean co-organizes the Oxford (UK) Cloud Tracking Workshop, where he presents on tobac and aerosol-cloud interactions.
January 9-13, 2023
Sean presents on tobac, UAS-related research, and aerosol-cloud interactions at the AMS annual meeting in Denver.
January 3, 2023
Sean starts as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
November 18, 2022
Version 1.4.0 of tobac, a Python-based tracking package maintained in part by our group, is released. Congratulations to the entire tobac team on this achievement!