News

October 5, 2023: Sean joins the Unidata Users Committee and is highlighted in an article discussing new members.
September 28, 2023: Two group members, Dr. Sean Freeman and Sydney Rau, a senior undergraduate student, participated in outreach to SPARK Academy at Cowart in Athens, AL. The effort was part of the broader efforts in outreach from the UAH NSF MAPNet facility.
August 14, 2023: Chris Kwinta joins the group as a new MS student. Chris joins us from Northern Illinois University, where he majored in Meteorology. Welcome, Chris!
August 14, 2023: Sean's recent Department of Energy grant was highlighted by UAH's communications team.
July 24-27, 2023: Sean attends NASA's New PI Launchpad, a workshop for prospective NASA satellite mission proposers, held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
June 13-14, 2023: Sean attends the NASA INvestigation of Convective UpdraftS (INCUS) science retreat in Fort Collins, CO. At the retreat, Sean presented on recent updates to tobac and the use of tobac in tracking storms globally.
June 8, 2023: Sydney Rau, a fourth-year undergraduate student at UAH in Atmospheric and Earth Science, starts in the group. Welcome, Sydney!
May 8, 2023: Ethan Hanan, a third-year undergraduate student at UAH, starts in the group. Welcome, Ethan!
April 24-28, 2023: Sean presents on recent tracking work using tobac at the European Geophysical Union General Congress in Vienna.
April 17-21, 2023: Sean co-organizes the Oxford (UK) Cloud Tracking Workshop, where he presents on tobac and aerosol-cloud interactions.
January 9-13, 2023: Sean presents on tobac, UAS-related research, and aerosol-cloud interactions at the AMS annual meeting in Denver.
January 3, 2023: Sean starts as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
November 18, 2022: Version 1.4.0 of tobac, a Python-based tracking package maintained in part by our group, is released. Congratulations to the entire tobac team on this achievement!