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