CESSRST Fellow earned 3rd place in AMS Student Poster Session
CESSRST-II Graduate Fellow, Akarshna Iyer earned the 3rd Place Best Student 16Energy Poster Presentation at the2025 AMS (American Meteorological Society) Annual Meeting will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from January 12-16 2025. Akarshna’s poster was titled “Meteorology and Boundary Layer Structure Associated with Coastal Low-Level Jets During WFIP3” . Akarshna is a...Read More
CESSRST Fellow Zack Paganini Defends his Thesis and Graduates with a PhD from the Graduate Center – CUNY
Zack Paganini received his PhD after successfully defending his thesis over the summer. he graduates with a PhD in Earth & Environmental Science from CUNY’s Graduate Center on September 1, 2024. Dr. Paganini was a CESSRST-II Cohort 1 Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center. Zack’s thesis, “Understanding Climate Change Adaptation and Gentrification through the...Read More
Congratulations to our 2024 Graduates
Congrats to the class of 2024. Nine Fellows graduated this year making another successful journey for Center fellows. Our graduates include: Dr. Harold Gamarro (Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, CCNY/CUNY) Dr. Alana Menendez (Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Graduate Center, CUNY) Maria Novoa (M.S. in Electrical Engineering, UPRM) Stephany Garcia (M.S. in Geography, SDSU)...Read More
Alana Menendez & Harold Gamarro Successfully Defends Theses and Complete their PhD
Harold Gamarro & Alana Menendez are NOAA EPP Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing-II Scholar in Cohort 1 at the City College of New York and Graduate Center, CUNY respectively. Harold received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering integrating Building Energy Dynamics and Air Quality in Urban Boundary Layer Seasonal Extremes and Alana earned her Ph.D. in Earth and Atmospheric...Read More
Keneshia Hibbert receives Prestigious Graduate Fellowship Program (GFP)
Keneshia Hibbert, a Ph.D. student Fellow from CESSRST II Cohort 2 was selected for the NOAA EPP Graduate Fellowship Program (GFP) in June 2024. Her year-long engagement in the GFP starts on September 1, 2024, at NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service’s Center for Satellite Applications and Research (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR) in College Park, MD, under the...Read MoreCESSRST-II Faculty and Students present at both AGU 2023 and AMS 2024
Several Fellows and CESSRST Faculty participated in AGU in San Francisco, CA from December 11 – 15, 2023 and AMS conference in January 2024 held in Baltimore MD. American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2023 Highlights Harold Gamarro (CCNY PhD Cohort I) A51J-2059 : Modeling Anthropogenic Influences on Urban Meteorology and Air Quality: Insights from Coastal Urban Environments in the...Read MoreCongratulations to our 2023 Graduates
As the summer ends, CESSRST-II congratulates six master’s fellows who graduated with a shared commitment to turning knowledge into meaningful impact. Their goals range from designing sustainable infrastructure and advancing renewable energy to shaping equitable education policy, improving public health access, developing ethical artificial intelligence, and launching socially...Read More
CESSRST-II Scholars Wendy Prudencio & Gwen Alexandre presents at NOAA Seminar Series
NOAA EPP CESSRST Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing graduate scholars, Wendy Prudencio and Gwen Alexandre together with their mentor Dr. Fernando tormos-Aponte delivered a talk on July 26, 2023, at the CSL Lab as part of the NOAA Science Seminar Series. The presentation was titled, ‘The Drivers and Consequences of Social Vulnerability to Disasters.’ The Social Vulnerability and...Read More
Eder Herrera Successfully Defends Thesis to Become First CESSRST-II Fellow to Complete PhD
Eder Herrera successfully defended his doctoral thesis June 30, 2023, to become the first NOAA CESSRST-II Fellow to earn his PhD . Dr. Herrera is a Cohort I NOAA EPP funded graduate fellow of the Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technology (CESSRST-II). He is based at The City College of New York, and he will receive his degree from the Graduate Center, CUNY, in...Read More