CESSRST Graduate Scholar Recognized for Top 5 Winner! at UTEP GradExpo 2025
CESSRST II Fellow Leah Porras has received recognition as a Top 5 Winner at the University of Texas at El Paso GradExpo 2025. Leah’s award winning poster was titled ” Using Machine Learning to Detect Seals and Polar Bears in MultiSpectral Aerial Imagery” which utilizes annotated UV, IR and RGB imagery to develop a detection model that can identify polar bears and white coat...Read More
CESSRST Fellow Jahnelle Howe Successfully Defends Thesis and Graduates with a PhD
Jahnelle Howe received her PhD after successfully defending her thesis on Friday, April 4. She graduates with a PhD in Earth & Environmental Science from CUNY’s Graduate Center on June 10, 2025. Dr. Howe was a CESSRST-II Cohort 1 Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center. Prior to this, she received a Master’s degree in Earth & Atmospheric Science from the City College of New...Read More
NOAA issues BAA for advance technologies in Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Coordination
Download BAA Announcement NOAA’ ‘s Office of Space Commerce is requesting white papers that could result in proposals and funded research to improve and advance technologies in Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Space Traffic Coordination (STC) . OSC is interested in exploring the utility of data fusion, including but not limited to the fusion of state vectors to...Read More
CESSRST Fellows and Staff Attend 2025 EPP/MSI Forum at Princess Anne, Maryland
CESSRST Fellows and staff attended the 11th Biennial Education and Science Forum, which was hosted by the NOAA Cooperative Science Center in Living Marine Resources at University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. The event, which was held from March 4 – 6, 2025 in Princess Anne, Maryland, was an opportunity for the Cooperative Science Centers to showcase collaborative research and education...Read More
CESSRST II Scientist contributes to NOAA Extreme Weather Impacts and Economics Summit
Drs William Solecki and Elia Machado attended and contributed to the first Extreme Weather Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Summit convened by NOAA’s Weather Program Office (WPO). Dr. Solecki joined other panelists in a session titled “Tomorrow’s Career Pathways in Extreme Weather: Training, Development, and Leadership” which looks at the workforce approaches through...Read More
CESSRST at both AGU 2024 and AMS 2025
CESSRST-II had 28 oral and poster presentations from fellows, faculty, distinguished research scientists (DRS), and researchers at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference in Washington, DC. The Center also had 16 presentations at AMS in New Orleans, Louisiana in January 2025. American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2024 Highlights Name Title Alexandra Grant H33O-1150Tracking...Read More
CESSRST-II & CCNY Faculty Receives NSF Grant to study landslides using AI and ML Technologies
The National Science Foundation provided funding to Dr. Yingli Tian, an electrical engineering professor at City College of New York, and Dr. Te Pei, an assistant professor of civil engineering, as co-PIs for their study, “Unifying Landslide Domain Knowledge and AI to Understand Landslide Causality.” By fusing cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and machine...Read More
Two CESSRST-II Scientists honored by American Meteorological Society
CESSRST-II Mentors, Dr. Jorge Gonzalez, Professor at the Department of Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences at University of Albany (SUNY) and Dr. Reginald Blake, Professor of Physics at the New York City College of Technology (CityTech) were both honored for their efforts and contributions to STEM community by the American Meteorological Society. Dr. Gonzalez received the...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/MSI 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 mentorship...Read More