Current group members
Mary Jurgensen, PhD student
Mary is a PhD student at Iowa State University investigating influences of climate change and land-atmosphere interactions on mesoscale convective systems
Dana Falter, concurrent MS student
Dana is a concurrent MS student researching the effects of the land surface on wind turning and helicity in convective storm environments, using radar and lidar observations from the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program.
Seth Colston, PhD Student
Seth is a graduate student at Iowa State University researching interactions between convective wind gusts and land surface energy balance, using ARM observations and the DOE Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM).
Ana Sena, Postdoctoral Research Associate
I am a postdoctoral researcher studying the contribution of land-atmosphere interactions to the development of droughts over the Southwestern USA. I received my PhD in Earth System Science at the University of California Irvine. My research interests include extreme events, tropical meteorology and climate change.
Undergraduate researchers
Senior Thesis Symposium, 2024: Braydon Songer, Matt Crook, David Hultman, Dana Falter, and Ian Williams
Senior Thesis Symposium, 2023: Ian Williams, Mary Jurgensen, Ben Jablonski, Gwen Fieweger, and Brooke Beran.
Graduate Alumni
- Jesse Castillo, Meteorology MS (2024); NOAA/National Weather Service
- Dylan McDermott, Meteorology MS (2024); Property & Liability Resource Bureau
- Travis Enzensperger, Meteorology MS (2023); NOAA/CIWRO
Previous undergraduate researchers
- Eliot Morrow; Meteorology Senior Thesis (2025)
- Evan Haag; Meteorology Senior Thesis (2025)
- Madeline Medvec; Meteorology Senior Thesis (2025)
- Adriane Stamer-Fuentes; Meteorology Senior Thesis (2025)
- Vaughn Hendrix; Independent Study (2025)
- Ava Merritt; First-Year Honors Program (2025)
- Braydon Songer; Meteorology Senior Thesis (2024)
- Matt Crook; Meteorology Senior Thesis (2024)
- David Hultman; Meteorology Senior Thesis (2024)
- Brooke Beran; Meteorology Senior Thesis (2023), LAS Dean's High Impact Award (2024)
- Dana Falter; Independent Study (2023)
- Gwendolyn Fieweger; Meteorology Senior Thesis (2023)
- Benjamin Jablonski; Meteorology Senior Thesis (2023)
- Mary Jurgensen; Meteorology Senior Thesis (2023)
- Jon Siemianowski; First-Year Honors Program (2023), Independent Study (2024)
- Jordan Howell; First-Year Honors Program (2023)
- Ada Ellingworth; Meteorology Senior Thesis (2022)
- Chloe Macey; Meteorology Senior Thesis (2022)
- Lexie Merley; Meteorology Senior Thesis (2022)
- Jesse Castillo; Meteorology Senior Thesis (2022)