Powerpoint Presentations
Click below for the description/details for each of this year’s summer projects .















| Research Project Title | Faculty/Staff Mentor | Other Mentor(s) | SB/REU & HIRES |
| CUNY | |||
| Dynamics of PM2.5 and Ozone Pollution in NYC area | Dingdong Li, Yonghua Wu | Alexus Lee and Jendy DeLeon | |
| Ozone, PM2.5, and PBLH Variability During a Heat Wave in New York City | Yonghua Wu | Michael Pena | |
| Rain, Rivers, and Computers: An introduction to operational hydrologic modeling | Jimmy Booth | Carolien Mossel | |
| Coral Reefs: On The Other Tide | Jahnelle Howe | Claire Yu, Kannie Yuan | |
| Analyzing Anthropogenic and Climate Trends on Regional Farms | Tarendra Lakhankar/ Naresh Devineni | Caroline Schwab | Kevin Byun, Rebecca Merber, Amy Delgado, Fambougouri Diane, MD Karim |
| Drought Climatology and Impacts in the Northeast: Case Studies for New Jersey and Delaware | Nir Krakauer / Tarendra Lakhankar | Leulaye Maskal | Rabeca Mohammed (REU Scholar) |
| Comparison of NOAA’s Precipitation Products using NYC-uHMT Data | Tarendra Lakhankar | Jake Longenecker, Dimitri Ambroise, Fatima Karami, Daniel Ugo-Omenukwa, Amanda Zhong, Rita Okonya | |
| Developing Urban Weather Data Communication Tools for Society | Tarendra Lakhankar | ||
| Data Science Approach to NOAA Stakeholder and User Experience (UX) Survey and Feedback | Tarendra Lakhankar/ Shakila Merchant | ||
| How is water distributed throughout Califronia? | Ronak Etemadpour | Abdul Ashaif, Karen Tam, Md Rahman | |
| Riverine inputs to Long Island Sound: Variability and effects on water quality | Maria Tzortziou | Alana Menendez | Alexandra Nath, Nazmul Dewan, Syeda Mehjabin |
| Analysis of Remote Sensing Reflectance from VIIRS and MODIS Satellite Measurements Over Coastal Waters | Alex Gilerson | Eder Herrera | Brandon Flores |
| Evaluating the Coastal Environmental Impacts from the COVID-19 Shutdown | Andrea Gomez | Puja Roy, Sahib Mostafa, Dennis Huang, Sebastian David | |
| Gas Leak and Gentrification in NYC | Ronak Etemadpour | Amir Toliyat | |
| Forecasting Solar Radiation for Puerto Rico: Studying Cloudiness Patterns in 2019 | Nir Krakauer | Elaine Famutimi, Anna Olszowka, Rahil Ahmed, Willmar Guzman Ulloa | |
| Downscaling Methodology For Satellite Land Surface Temperatures Over Urban Environments | Hamid Norouzi | Abdou Bah | Nadia Sultana, Sergine, Michael Kamela, Oneil Mahoney |
| Studying Global Lakes Surface Temperature Variability using Satellite and In-Situ Observations | Hamid Norouzi | Abdou Bah | Christal Jean-Soverall, Olga Privman, Arjuman Hossain, Daniel Ochoa, Phoebe Sanders & Elizabeth Woo |
| Analysis and Observations of Atmospheric Dynamics | Mark Arend | ||
| Mitigating Water Risk for Businesses in California | Indrani Pal | ||
| Socioeconomic Status and its Correlation to Urban Air Pollution Exposure | Fred Moshary | Jessica Chen | |
| Climate change, ocean cidification and the effects on coral reefs | Karin Block | Jahnelle Howe | |
| SDSU | |||
| Remote sensing for turbidity in the Tijuana River Estuary using Sentinel 2A and 2B data and in-situ measurements | Trent Biggs | Stephany Garcia | |
| UTEP | |||
| Comparison of Endmember Extraction Algorithms for Hyperspectral Unmixing | Miguel Velez-Reyes | Cassandra Lisset Orozco | |
| Urban Heat Perceptions and Resilience of Residents of The City of El Paso | Miguel Velez-Reyes | Josiah Heyman, Patricia Juarez-Carrillo | Ileana Morales |
| UMBC Rawinsonde Estimation of Mixing Layer Height | Ruben Delgado | Raisa Rodríguez, Rahim Kamara | |
| Hampton Chemical Composition of PM 2.5 in Metropolitan Baltimore | Ruben Delgado | John Anderson | Shanell Bush, Onessa Sharufa |
| UPRM | Ruben Delgado | Rafael Rodriguez Solis |
Project Description
Click below for the description/details for each of this year’s summer projects .
| Research Project Title | Faculty/Staff Mentor | Other Mentor(s) | SB & HIRES | Abstract |
| CUNY | ||||
| Rain, Rivers, and Computers: An introduction to operational hydrologic modeling | Jimmy Booth | Carolien Mossel | Download | |
| Analyzing Anthropogenic Influences on Farm Output & Yield Behavior | Tarendra Lakhankar/ Naresh Devineni | Caroline Schwab | Download | |
| Drought Climatology and Impacts in the Northeast: Case Studies for New Jersey and Delaware | Nir Krakauer / Tarendra Lakhankar | Leulaye Maskal | Download | |
| Comparison of NOAA’s Precipitation Products using uHMT data | Tarendra Lakhankar | Download | ||
| Developing Urban Weather Data Communication Tools for Society | Tarendra Lakhankar | Download | ||
| Data Science Approach to NOAA Stakeholder and User Experience (UX) Survey and Feedback | Tarendra Lakhankar/ Shakila Merchant | Download | ||
| Analysis of HIRES Recruitment and Impact Analysis: A Data Science Approach | Tarendra Lakhankar/ Shakila Merchant | Download | ||
| Riverine inputs to Long Island Sound: Variability and effects on water quality | Maria Tzortziou | Alana Menendez | Download | |
| Estimation of uncertainties of OC satellites by comparison with AERONET-OC data | Alex Gilerson | Eder Herrera | Download | |
| Evaluating the Coastal Environmental Impacts from the COVID-19 Shutdown | Andrea Gomez | Download | ||
| Gas Leak and Gentrification in NYC | Ronak Etemadpour | Amir Toliyat | Download | |
| Monitoring and forecasting solar radiation in Puerto Rico | Nir Krakauer | Download | ||
| Development of Downscaled Urban Land Surface Temperature for New York City | Hamid Norouzi | Abdou Bah | Download | |
| Analyzing Lakes Surface Temperature Variability at the Global Scale | Hamid Norouzi | Abdou Bah | Download | |
| Analysis and Observations of Atmospheric Dynamics | Mark Arend | Download | ||
| Mitigating Water Risk for Businesses in California | Indrani Pal | Download | ||
| Applications of Optical Remote Sensing | Fred Moshary | Download | ||
| Climate change, ocean cidification and the effects on coral reefs | Karin Block | Jahnelle Howe | Download | |
| SDSU | ||||
| Using Google Earth Engine to map hotspots of agricultural change during droughts along the US-Mexico border | Trent Biggs | Download | ||
| UTEP | ||||
| Atmospheric Compensation of World View Imagery over Alaska | Miguel Velez-Reyes | Sergio A. Vargas-Zesati | Download | |
| Citizen Perceptions on Urban Heat in El Paso | Miguel Velez-Reyes | Josiah Heyman | Download | |
| UMBC | Ruben Delgado | Download | ||
| Hampton | Ruben Delgado | John Anderson | Download | |
| UPRM | Ruben Delgado | Rafael Rodriguez Solis | Download |







