News and Updates
2026
January
- Conference: AMS Annual Meeting, Houston
- Oral presentation: “Impact of Lake Representation in UFS RRFSv1 for Operational Short-Term Weather Forecasting of Winter Storms in the Great Lakes Region”
- Invited Seminar: NISER Bhubaneshwar, India
2025
December
- Conference: AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans
- Oral presentations:
- “In-situ Measurements of Moon’s Surface Bound Exosphere: Preliminary Results from Chandrayaan 3 RAMBHA-LP”
- “Coupling RRFSv1 and FVCOM-CICE for Operational Weather Forecasting in the Great Lakes Region”
- Session Convener: “The Gas Giants: Atmosphere, Interior, and Evolution of Jupiter and Saturn”
- Panel discussion: “Grassroots Knowledge and Coastal Stewardship in Cameron Parish: Lessons for Sustainable Fisheries”
- Co-authored presentations:
- Zhang et al.: “High-Energy Electron Precipitation in Jupiter’s North Polar Auroras observed by Juno MWR”
- Dahl et al.: “Clouds and Aerosols in the Solar System: Updates on an In-Progress Review Paper and Community Organization Efforts”
- Milligan-Choe et al.: “A Community-Driven Effort to Assess the Impact of Underwater Noise Pollution from a Liquified Natural Gas Facility at the Mouth of Louisiana’s Calcasieu River”
September
- Conference NOAA UIFCW 2025, Boulder
- Poster presentation: “Operational Short-Term Weather Forecasting for the Great Lakes Region: Coupling RRFSv1 and FVCOM-CICE for Lake Effect Precipitation”
June
- Workshops
- Community Earth System Workshop at NCAR Boulder
- Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project (DCMIP) 2025, completed training sessions for idealized test cases of physics and AI based global circulation models
- New Role: Joined NASA Venus Exploration Analysis Group as a Steering Committee Member
May
- New Position: Joined as a Research Fellow at Atmospheric Dynamics Modeling Laboratory, University of Michigan
- Graduation: Graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
Feb
- Thesis defense: Successfully defended my doctoral thesis on Microwave remote sensing of Jupiter’s deep atmosphere and polar aurora