M.S. Thesis Title: A Multiscale Analysis of Major Transition Season Northeast SnowstormsAdvisors: Dr. Andrea Lang and Dr. Daniel Keyser(Research Assistant during summers and during 2017) - Created a climatology of major transition season Northeast snowstorms and two features (i.e., atmospheric rivers and cold pools) that occurred during the snowstorms - Conducted composite analyses of major transition season Northeast snowstorms to document the planetary-to-synoptic-scale and synoptic-to-mesoscale atmospheric flow patterns occurring prior to and during this class of snowstorms - Coded an algorithm, which was modeled after methodology in existing meteorological literature, and applied it to NCEP–Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) data in order to identify atmospheric rivers - Developed an algorithm in NCAR Command Language (NCL), using existing meteorological literature as a basis, to determine whether points of snowfall accumulation were associated with atmospheric rivers from a Lagrangian perspective
 - Prepared a report every six months describing research progress for an official document - Presented at five conferences at the international, national, and regional levels, and at five CSTAR (Collaborative Science, Technology, and Applied Research Program) meetings at the NOAA National Weather Service in Albany, NY - Designed conceptual models that summarized research findings for operational use by NOAA National Weather Service forecasters

ATM 107 - The Oceans (Fall 2014, Fall 2015): Held weekly office hours, met with students upon appointment, assisted with class setup and departure for large lecture based class (over 400 students), assisted with test preparation, quality controlled scantron marks following the test, assisted with post test organization, administered the final exams ATM 320 - Atmospheric Thermodynamics (Spring 2015): Performed and reviewed homework, created homework keys, graded homework, handled homework grades, held office hours twice a week, met with students upon appointment, reviewed tests prior to their administration, led review sessions before each testATM 100 - The Atmosphere (Spring 2015): Served as a proctor for a large class in a lecture hall ATM 200 - Natural Disasters (Fall 2015): Served as a proctor for a large class in a lecture hall AATM 211 - Weather Analysis and Forecasting (Spring 2016): Graded homework, gave weekly weather discussions to the class, held weekly office hours, met with students upon appointment, administered a final exam for several students

Project Title: “Daily Variations of Lower Thermospheric Tides at Middle Latitude and Their Association with Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events”Advisor: Dr. Larisa Goncharenko - Used Matlab to derive daily tidal signatures in the lower thermosphere at middle latitude from Incoherent Scatter Radar data collected at Millstone Hill - Compared tidal signatures that occurred during Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) events to tidal signatures that occurred during the absence of SSW events - Presented research at the conclusion of the summer for MIT Haystack Observatory employees and constructed a lab report - Designed poster containing research for the 2013 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, which is available at http://www.atmos.albany.edu/student/steeves/REUs.html (Poster was presented by Dr. Larisa Goncharenko; I was unable to attend due to my study abroad program.)

Title: "A Comparison of Mesoscale Analysis Systems Used for Severe Weather Forecasting"Co-Authors: Dr. Dustan Wheatley and Dr. Michael Coniglio - Conducted a preliminary investigation of an ensemble based Weather Research and Forecasting Model used for severe convective weather forecasting that was developed by the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory - Developed scripts to calculate specific forecasting parameters and calculated various error metrics (i.e., error spread, bias, and root mean square difference) of the forecasting parameters for several models - Evaluated the relative performance of several models by comparing calculated error metrics - Presented research findings at the National Weather Center at the conclusion of summer