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Project Description
Proposed projects for 2020
| Project Title | Mentor/ Faculty | Type | Download |
| Introduction to NOAA CESSRST Science: Tropics to Arctic | Dr. Jorge Corredor | SB & HIRES | |
| Heat Vulnerability of NYC caused by the Urban Heat Island using uHMT Weather Station Data | Adrian Pena and Tarendra Lakhankar | HIRES | |
| Autonomous Localization and Calibration of Drone-based Remote Sensing | Dr. Miguel Velez-Reyes & Robert C. Roberts | SB Only | |
| Accelerated Tropical Forest Inventories with AI | Nick Steiner and Kyle McDonald | HIRES Only | |
| Social Science and Ecosystem Services | Shakila Merchant, Siena Dante and Tarendra Lakhankar | HIRES Only | |
| A Spatial Analysis of Microfibers in Estuary Systems | Timothy Medina, Rose Jimenez, Nicole Torres, and Valerie Were | HIRES Only | |
| ISCCP Convection Tracking of Severe Storms and Economic Impacts | Chad Small and Johnny Luo | HIRES Only | |
| Changing Water Use Patterns during COVID-19 in NYC | Dr. Indrani Pal | SB & HIRES | |
| Chaparral Stand age and C sequestration potential and Biomass | Dr. Walter Oechel | SB Only | |
| Comparison of aerosol/Raman Lidar for measurement of Atmospheric Aerosols and Water Vapor using Ceilometer Observations | TBD | SB Only | |
| Data Analytics and dimension reductions | Dr. Ronak Etemadpour | SB Only | |
| Drone-based environmental monitoring of water and vegetation | Dr. Ivonne Santiago | SB Only | |
| Drought early warning and forecasting in the United States NOAA storm data | Nir krakauer & Tarendra Lakhankar | SB Only | |
| Evaluating Potential Ocean/Coastal Environmental Changes from the COVID-19 Shutdown | Dr. Kyle McDonald & Dr. Andrea Gomez | SB & HIRES | |
| Help build an ozone lidar at CCNY | Dr. Fred Moshary | SB Only | |
| Impact of COVID-19 to Air Quality in Baltimore-Washington DC | TBD | SB Only | |
| Impact of Smoke of Prescribed Fires in Mid-Atlantic Air Quality | Dr. Ruben Delgado | SB Only | |
| Integration of CESSRST Lidar/Ceilometer data to MONET | Dr. Ruben Delgado | SB Only | |
| Is the weather getting weirder? A physical and statistical study of trends in weather variability | Dr. James Booth & Jiehao Luo | SB Only | Download |
| Mapping and Analysis of COVID-19 spread using Satellite products and Socioeconomic data | Caroline Schwab, Engela Sthapit, Candace Agonafir, Kenneth Arguedas and Tarendra Lakhankar | SB & HIRES | Download |
| Characterizing & Mapping drought frequency and economic impact in the Northeast United States | Nir Krakauer & Luis Geraldino | SB & HIRES | |
| Photosynthesis, respiration, C sequestration in Chaparral as affected by drought, age, and climate. | Dr. Walter Oechel | SB Only | |
| Satellite Data Analysis of Stratospheric H2O | Dr. John Anderson | SB Only | |
| Satellite Data Analysis of Stratospheric HCl | Dr. John Anderson | SB Only | |
| Satellite Data Analysis of Stratospheric O3 | Dr. John Anderson | SB Only | |
| Scanning Lidar Observation of Pollution Movement in NYC | Dr. Fred Moshay & Adrian F. Diaz | SB & HIRES | |
| Socio-economic and environmental factors affecting COVID-19 distribution in NYC | Cheila Cullen | SB & HIRES | Download |
| Streamflow Prediction using Deep Learning Models | Dr. Ronak Etemadpour | SB & HIRES | |
| The environmental impact of COVID-19 pandemic on atmospheric N pollution in urban coastal regions | Dr. Maria Tzortziou & Alana Menendez & Dilchard Nauth | SB & HIRES | |
| Understanding the subtle differences between heavy precipitation and flooding | Dr. James Booth & Carolien Mossel | SB Only | Download |
| Quantifying the impact of US events weather and climate extremes | Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi & Niloufar Nouri | SB & HIRES | Download |
| Do similar stations get the weather wrong in similar ways? | Michael Grossberg & Hannah Aizenman | SB & HIRES | Download |
| Can you spot the difference? | Micheal Grossberg & Brian V. Hull | SB & HIRES | Download |
| How do we enhance fire images using deep learning? | Michael Grossberg & Hannah Aizenman | SB & HIRES | Download |