During the CREST HIRES orientation, students were introduced to the City College of New York (CCNY) and CREST HIRES program.  The students had an opportunity to meet the professors and scientists at CREST and learn about their research projects.  The agenda for the orientation, scheduled between June 31th and July 3th, can be found here:

HIRES Orientation Week Photo Gallery can be found here.

Following are the CREST HIRES presentations from the orientation:
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  1. Big Data and Data Visualization –  Drs. Michael Grossberg/Ronak Etemadpour Hannah Aizenman
  2. Impact of Climate on Food Security –  Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi/Indrani Ehsan Najafi
  3. Signals in the Urban Soil –  Dr. Prathap Ramamurthy David Melecio Vasquez
  4. Downscaling Building Energy Demands to Single Building –  Dr. Jorge Gonzalez Luiz Oritz
  5. Study of Location Error in Satellite Precipitation Estimates using a Radar-Gauge Product –  Dr. Kirewossen Tesfagiorgis Mayumy Cordovalozano
  6. Floods, Risks and the Whole “Dam” Thing: Flood Estimation –   Dr. Naresh Devineni Cesar Hincapie
  7. Weather and Air Quality  –  Dr. Fred Moshary/Barry Gross Victor Dominguez and Adrien Diaz
  8. Pre and Post Hurricane Maria Land-Cover Classification of Puerto Rico –  Dr. Jorge Gonzalez Nathan Hosannah
  9. Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing and Ground-Based Observations in Monitoring Lakes and Urban Surface Temperature –  Dr. Hamid Norouzi Abdou Bah
  10. Impact of Climate on Food Security –  Drs. Reza Khanbilvardi/Indrani Pal Ehsan Najafi
  11. Weather and Air Quality –  Dr. Fred Moshary/Barry Gross Victor Dominguez and Adrian Diaz
  12. Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing and Ground-Based Observations in Monitoring Lakes and Urban Surface Temperature –  Dr. Hamid Norouzi Abdou Bah
  13. Radar Mapping of Snow Melt Over Mountain Glaciers in High Mountain Asia –  Dr. Tarendra Lakhankar Jessica Chiu
  14. Extreme Climatic Disasters and Impacts on the World’s Food Systems –   Dr. Indrani Pal Jahnelle Howe
  15. Vineyards and Remote Sensing Dr. Kyle McDonald Aaron Davitt
  16. Assessment of Water Quality and Quantity Using Satellite Remote Sensing –   Dr. Tarendra Lakhankar Saman Armal
  17. Is the weather getting weirder?    –   Dr. Jimmy Booth Veenshan Narinesingh and Katie Towey
  18. Extreme Floods and Drought Interchanging –   Dr. Naresh Devineni Nasser Nojibi
  19. Niloufar Nouri – Extreme Weather Events
  20. Saman Armal-Principal Statistic Analysis of Rivers Flow during Baseline and Impact Period