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Congratulations to Justin Metcalf for being elected to the IEEE AES Society’s Radar Systems Panel (RSP). This is the panel that makes IEEE award nominations, selects radar conference venues and oversees conference operations, contributes to radar-related IEEE standards, and promotes radar education initiatives. Selection to the panel shows recognition from the IEEE radar community for sustained contributions and support of IEEE radar activities.
Dr. Metcalf joins Dr. Yeary and Dr. Goodman on the panel of approximately 45-50 members from industry, government, and academia. Furthermore, one of our former ARRC engineers, Dr. Faruk Uysal, was also selected.
Going forward, each month we will have a Student of the Month for the ARRC. For the month of October, we will be highlighting Morgan Schneider! She is a School of Meteorology Masters student and is currently working with Dr. Bodine & Dr. Palmer. Morgan has given us some notes regarding her current research: "My main research involves studying Doppler velocity errors caused by debris centrifuging in tornadoes. At the moment, I’m beginning to test methods for mitigating those errors so that we can collect better radar-based estimates of tornado wind speeds. My biggest weather interests are tornado dynamics and tornadogenesis, and I’d like to research those topics more in the future." Morgan has recently received a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award. Regarding how she spends her free time, Morgan said, "I’m a musician at heart — I play the clarinet, piano, and sing. I also enjoy playing video games and hanging out with my two cats!"
This year at the ARRC, weather fest is going to be a little different. Everything will be virtual! Please join us for a virtual tour of the lab followed by a LIVE Q&A on Facebook!
ECE/ARRC student Brian Sun and David Schvartzman Cohenca of CIMMS/ARRC have both received $5000 Gallogly College of Engineering Dissertation of Excellence Awards. The award recognizes Ph.D. students who have achieved outstanding research results while encouraging them to complete their dissertations with excellence. Brian is advised by Dr. Jay McDaniel, and David is advised by Dr. Tian Yu. Congratulations Brian and David on this outstanding achievement!
ECE/ARRC graduate student Arturo Umeyama has received a $5000 Gallogly College of Engineering Dissertation of Excellence Award. The award recognizes Ph.D. students who have achieved outstanding research results while encouraging them to complete their dissertations with excellence. Arturo is advised by Dr. Jorge Salazar, and his dissertation is focused on new in-situ UAV instrumentation for phased array radar calibration. Congratulations Arturo on this outstanding achievement!
Progress in precipitation science and applications is critical to advancing weather and water budget studies and to predicting natural hazards caused by extreme events, from local to global scales. It requires more than just one deterministic precipitation "best estimate" to adequately cope with the intermittent, highly skewed distribution that characterizes precipitation. Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Estimation (PQPE) is an approach that integrates remote sensing, meteorology, hydrology, and artificial intelligence to advance precipitation estimation, processes understanding, and applications. It increases the information content through the consideration of uncertainty in the remote sensing of precipitation and advances the quantification of risk associated with precipitation-related hazards such as flash flooding. The approach described in Kirstetter et al. (WRR, 2015) was tested for radar networks by NOAA/NSSL scientists and NWS forecasters in the HMT-Hydro Experiment in 2019 to evaluate new tools and techniques through real-time testbed operations for the improvement of flash flood detection and warning operations link. Through collaboration with the NOAA Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor team, it is now running in real-time in the MRMS System Experimental Product Viewer at link. NASA and NOAA support the current development of PQPE for the latest generation of global satellite precipitation estimates. More details can be found at link.
An OU international student has launched a space exploration organization at OU in partnership with NASA. Click here to read more.
Dr. Bodine unravels the mysteries of tornadoes using next-generation radars and computer simulations.
ECE/ARRC assistant professor Dr. Justin Metcalf has received a Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense. Click here for more information.
Shane Flandermeyer (ECE/ARRC) was selected for special recognition at the recently held AFRL Beyond 5G Software Defined Radio University Challenge Showcase. AFRL issued the challenge to explore and develop software-defined radios coupled with software-defined networking technologies to enable autonomous distributed sensor and communication systems. Nine teams from across the country were selected to participate. Shane, who will be a junior this fall, was the only individual on the OU SDR team. He competed against teams made up of multiple graduate and undergraduate students.Shane received a $1000 award for his performance and was commended by the judges for his excellent video demonstration. Shane is advised by Dr. Justin Metcalf.