SIParCS technical projects 2026

Students in CISL's SIParCS internship program will make their oral presentations on Tuesday, July 28 in the NSF NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder, Colorado.

All are invited to attend in-person or via live webcast - including staff, students' family, friends, and others. Attendees will be able to submit questions via Slido. The presentations will be recorded and published for those who cannot attend. In addition, those joining remotely can do so from this Google Meet link.

Tuesday, July 28 (MDT)

9:30 a.m. - Introduction: Virginia and Doug (remotely)

9:40 a.m. - "Data Pathfinders: A GDEX UX/UI Intern Quest Redesigning the Scientific Data Journey" Chris Gadze, Grambling State University

10:00 a.m. - "Introducing CREDIT-chem: A Hybrid Physics-Machine Learning Framework for Modeling Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry" LJ Dunphy, Florida State University

10:20 a.m. - "Simulating atmospheric chemistry in a Julia-based climate model" Obin Sturm, University of Southern California

10:40 a.m. - 10 min break

10:50 a.m. - "Finding Needles in a Haystack: Using a GOES Nowcasting Model to Predict Convective Initiation" Ethan Campbell, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

11:10 a.m. - "OpenIoTwx: A Low-Cost, Modular Platform for Real-Time Environmental Monitoring" Pouya Shaeri, Arizona State University

11:30 a.m. - "WASPP-Com: Integrating Real-Time Sensors and Wireless Control onto NCAR Air Quality Drone Sampling System" Nathan Bartley, Texas Tech University

11:50 a.m. - Break for lunch (1 hour)

1:00 p.m. - Welcome Back - Virginia

1:05 p.m. - "Firecracker: Wildfire Modeling and Leveraging AI for Strategic Wildfire Suppression" Maximus Jessey, Tennessee Technological University

1:25 p.m. - "Using LLM Chat to Simplify User Interactions with GDEX Data" Anna Scribner, North Seattle College

1:45 p.m. - "A Novel Data Assimilation Technique to Better Resolve Ensemble Overconfidence" Guan Xin, Ohio State University

2:05 p.m. - 10 min break

2:15 p.m. - "A Generalized framework for the evaluation and comparison of atmospheric chemistry models with observations" Liam Thompson, University of Oklahoma/University of Utah

2:35 p.m. - "Optimizing Ocean Observing in the Tropical Pacific" Ira Ranjan, Plymouth State University

2:55 p.m. - "A Performance and Usability Study of the Rust Programming Language" Riley Fisher, University of Colorado Boulder

3:15 p.m. - "Evaluating the Social and Professional Priorities of SIParCS Graduate Students" Gabrielle Forbes, West Chester University