Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch

CIRA’s 2022 Research Initiative Awards

Congratulations to CIRA Employees Ryan Lagerquist, Yoo-Jeong Noh, John Haynes, and Curtis Seaman for winning CIRA’s 2022 Research Initiative Awards. On 6 October 2022, the award winners gave seminars describing their award-winning research. Noh, Haynes, and Seaman talked about their research titled “Satellite-based 3D Cloud Data: Cloud Base Height Retrieval and User Engagement for Aviation Applications” and Lagerquist talked about “The right tool for the job: Augmenting traditional machine-learning tools for use in weather and climate applications”. CIRA Director Steven Miller congratulated the winners.  Former CIRA Director Tom Vonder Haar was in the audience. As the Founding Director of CIRA, he initiated this research award many years ago. (POC:  R. Brummer, CIRA, Renate.Brummer@colostate.edu). Research Funding Source: NOAA/NESDIS and NSF.

Figure: CIRA Research Initiative Award winners with CIRA Director Steven Miller and former CIRA
Director Tom Vonder Haar. From left to right: Steven Miller, Curtis Seaman, Ryan Lagerquist, Yoo–
Jeong Noh, John Haynes, Thomas Vonder Haar