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Summer Projects: Freeze Risk and a New ECONet Station

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Aug 28, 2014

Summer Projects: Predicting Pine Productivity with Drought Indices

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants. This part of this series is by Colin Loftin, who is finishing his degree in Meteorology and a minor in Mathematics at NC State University. Drought is an important subject, and given the conditions in the western part…

Aug 26, 2014

Summer Projects: Big Data Applications with Rainfall Estimates

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants. This post is by Geneva Ely, a recent graduate with degrees in Meteorology and Environmental Sciences. From dialect maps to user-tailored Facebook ads, big data has been making the news rounds for the last couple years. These leaps…

Feb 25, 2014

2013-2014 CCMMS Internship: Studies Involving Christmas Trees and Apples

Each year, the State Climate Office invites middle school students from Centennial Campus Middle School to participate in an internship to better their knowledge of weather and climate, as well as work on a project similar to what scientists here at the SCO do for a living. This year, the SCO decided to change how…

Nov 20, 2013

Summer Projects: High-Resolution Temperature and Precipitation Estimates for North Carolina

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants.The final part of this series is by James McClellan, a recent graduate of NC State with a degree in Meteorology and a minor in Biological Sciences. My work at the State Climate Office has been focused on developing…

Nov 14, 2013

Summer Projects: Bias Correction of Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimates in North Carolina

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants. The sixth part of this series is by Geneva Ely, a senior double majoring in Meteorology and Environmental Sciences with a concentration in Air Quality at NC State. This summer I started working on a research project to…

Oct 29, 2013

Summer Projects: PINEMAP Web Tools

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants. The fifth part of this series is by Andrew Martin, a junior majoring in Meteorology and minoring in Computer Science at NC State. One of my responsibilities over the summer was to develop web tools that would benefit…

Oct 22, 2013

Summer Projects: Palmer Drought Severity Index

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants. The fourth part of this series is by Melissa Mainhart, a junior majoring in Meteorology and minoring in Computer Programming at NC State. Over the course of the summer I have been working on calculating the Palmer Drought…

Oct 17, 2013

Summer Projects: Leaf Wetness and its Effects

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants. The third part of this series is by Madeline Pope, a senior majoring in Environmental Science and minoring in Meteorology at NC State University. Everyone has seen it. You walk outside as the sun is rising and see…

Oct 3, 2013

Summer Projects: Freeze Risk and a New ECONet Station

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants. The second post in this series is by Joseph Taylor, a recent graduate with degrees in Meteorology and Marine Science from NC State. I am currently researching how the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)…