2025 NESSI Interns

Katherine Kummel - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - A Python-Based Workflow for Alpine Glacier Initialization for the Community Ice Sheet Model, CGD (Mentor: Gunter Leguy)

Martina Salichs - University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez - Seasonal and Solar Activity Performance of Simulated TEC over the 2014-2023 Solar Cycle, HAO (Mentors: Kevin Pham, Jordi Villa Perez)

William Donaldson - University of Alabama-Huntsville - Using Remote Sensed Satellite Data to Verify a Roadway Flood Severity Index, RAL (Mentors: Amanda Siems-Anderson, Curtis Walker)

Lake Willett - Middlebury College - ENSO Modulation of Fire Weather Risk Across the Contiguous United States: Observed and Modeled Relationships in ERA5 and CESM2, CGD (Mentors: Samar Minallah, Peter Lawrence)

Gracyn Nehring - MSU Denver - When All Systems Converge: Wetland Loss in Southern Louisiana and the Necessity of Systems Thinking for Convergence Science, RAL (Mentors: Jennifer Boehnert, Jonathan Foret, Scott Landolt)

Regan Newby - Purdue University - Evaluation of Butanol and Water-Based Condensation Particle Counters for High-Altitude Airborne Operations, EOL (Mentors: Patrick Vares, Justin Jaquot)

Jared Emmert - University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign - Convective Environment in Medium-Range Convection-Permitting Forecasts in Global MPAS, MMM (Mentors: Alex Lojko, May Wong)

Avinash Aravind - Cornell University - Evolution of an Eyewall Replacement Cycle in an MPAS-Simulated Tropical Cyclone, RAL (Mentors: Falko Judt. Chris Davis)

Hung Nguyen - University of South Florida - Regional Ocean–Sea Ice Coupling with MOM6 and CICE in the Pan-Arctic Using CrocoDash, CGD (Mentors: Dan Amrhein,  Manish Venumuddula, Alper Altuntas, David Bailey)