2026 NESSI Interns

Wyatt Van Dyke - Iowa State - A Microphysics Analysis with Regional MPAS during the July 2025 Central Texas Floods, MMM (Mentors: Alex Lojko, Kelly Werner, Wei Wang)

Keana Beaufort - Hampton University - Smoke Signals in New York: Analyzing Wildfire’s Influence on Atmospheric Pollutants over the Greater New York Region,  ACOM  (Mentors: Alessandro Franchin, Rebecca Buchholz, Changmin Cho, Ivan Ortega, Behrooz Roozitalab)

Simran LaBore - Cornell University - Characterizing Downslope Windstorms at NCAR's Marshall Field Site: Toward a Site-Specific Observing Strategy, EOL (Mentor: Sebastian Hoch)

Corinne Fox - Grinnell College - Greenland Ice Sheet Experiments using the Community Ice Sheet Model, CGD (Mentor: Gunter Leguy)

Maddox Meador - The Pennsylvania State University - A Horizontal Resolution Analysis of Diabatic Heating Within Organized Convection During the July 4, 2025 Central Texas Floods, MMM (Mentors: Alex Lojko, Kelly Werner, Wei Wang)

Aalyan Aamir - UC Berkeley - Evaluating the Effect of the High-Latitude Electrodynamics on the Ionosphere-Thermosphere System Response, HAO (Mentor: Jordi Villa Perez)

Zoe Posner - Colorado College - Tropopause Polar Vortex Influence on Moisture Transport: A Case Study of a Severe Winter Storm, RAL (Mentors: Chris Davis, Andrew Winters, Ting-Yu Cha)

Caitlin Sheen - Middlebury College -  LENS2 as a tool for projecting the 2026 El Niño, CGD (Mentor: Richard Neale)