Student spotlight: CESSRST II Fellows publish in peer-reviewed journals

CESSRST-II Fellows, Alana Menendez offsite link (recent graduate) and Gerardo Trossi-Torres offsite link published their research in peer-reviewed academic journals.

• Alana Menendez published Driving factors of colored dissolved organic matter dynamics across a complex urbanized estuary offsite link in Journal of Science of The Total Environment.
• Gerardo Trossi-Torres published Assessing streamflow forecast accuracy for flash flood events in Puerto Rico offsite link in the Journal of Hydrology.

CESSRST II Director receives NASA Group Achievement Award

Fred Moshary, Ph.D. offsite link, Director of CESSRST II offsite link and professor of electrical Engineering at the City College of New York received the Group Achievement Award offsite link as part of the Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network (TOLNet) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). TOLNet is a network of Ground-Based Ozone Lidars that includes NASA, NOAA, Environment and Climate Change Canada, University of Alabama, Hampton University and City College.

CESSRST II students present at national scientific conferences

• Fellows, Harold Gamarro offsite link, Stephanie Marquez offsite link, and Jahnelle Howe offsite link presented their work at the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco, California, in December.
• Fellows, Thomas Ely offsite link, Harold Gamarro offsite link, Kevin Herrera offsite link, and Carlos Ordaz offsite link presented offsite link at the American Meteorological Association in Baltimore, Maryland, in January 2024.

Other CESSRST-II highlights

1. CESSRST alumnus becomes NOAA federal employee: Chowdhury Nazmi, Ph.D., was recently hired as a physical scientist at the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service working as a product portfolio manager.
2. Four graduate students (Jake Longenecker offsite link, Alana Menendez offsite link, Zachary Paganini, offsite link and Juanita Jimenez offsite link) gave presentations about their NOAA Experiential Research and Training Opportunities (NERTO) experiences at the NOAA Seminar Series.
3. Post graduate updates: Alana Menendez offsite link began a postdoctoral position at University of Virginia and Stephany Garcia offsite link joined the Southwest Wetland Interpretive Association as a research associate.

View the CESSRST II website for more publications offsite link and highlights offsite link.

Student spotlight: CESSRST-II Fellows publish in peer-reviewed journals

CESSRST-II Cohort 1 Ph.D. Fellows, Keneshia Hibbert (CUNY) published a paper offsite link on sea surface temperature and vertical wind shear in Journal of Atmosphere and Danielle Lafarga (SDSU) published her research offsite link on sea surface temperature data reconstruction using three dimensional empirical orthogonal functions, a statistical method for studying spatial variability over time, in Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography.

CESSRST-II faculty appointed as lead author for the third decadal U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan

Maria Tzortziou, Ph.D., professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at the City College of New York (CCNY) was appointed to be the lead author for the third decadal U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan. The Third Decadal Plan Author Working Group will be responsible for developing an updated, revised, or new science plan for U.S. carbon cycle science, identifying challenges and priorities for the next decade (~2025-2035) and involving the broader community.

CESSRST-II faculty and students are recognized at the annual NOAA NESDIS/STAR award ceremony

On December 14, 2023, the NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) held its annual award ceremony. During this event, several CESSRST faculty and students were recognized for their work and contributions including. Alex Gilerson, Ph.D., who was recognized for his contributions to Ocean Color Satellite Sensor and Product Validation and CESSRST-II Ph.D. fellow Keneshia Hibbert who was recognized for her work and publication on ocean analysis, sea surface temperature, and vertical wind shear. Also recognized was the CCNY Atmospheric Emissions and Reactions Observed from Megacities to Marine Areas (AEROMMA) Team including Fred Moshary, Ph.D.; Yonghua Wu, Ph.D.; Harold Gamarro; Thomas Ely; Jorge Gonzalez, Ph.D.; and Prathap Ramamurthy, Ph.D., for their contributions to the NOAA AEROMMA campaign.

Other CESSRST-II highlights

1. Several CESSRST alumni joined NOAA including Veeshan Narinesingh, Ph.D., who is now working as a physical scientist at NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Engela Sthapit, Ph.D., who joined NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, as research scientist and Margarita Kulko, master’s at CCNY who is now working as a research scientist at IM Systems Group, Inc., in support of NOAA.
2. CESSRST Faculty, Maria Tzortziou, Ph.D., was also appointed to Ocean Research Advisory Panel. Read More offsite link.

For more highlights and publications, view the CESSRST-II Quarterly Newsletter offsite link (PDF version offsite link).