Coming into Fall 2024 after a long research summer, let’s meet CliMAS undergraduate, farm boy and Roanoke, Illinois native, Charlie Remmers. Charlie just came back after being in an REU at Colorado State University where he worked on a specific project with CSU faculty. Plans for next summer include interning with the NOAA Hollings Program. For a student who started out in the Astronomy...

CliMAS undergraduate student and Bethesda, Maryland native, Jane Umhofer, has a thing for water, whether it be in her studies as a future climatologist working on floods and droughts or being part of the University of Illinois Swimming and Diving team.  She might also be drawn to the wet stuff as a topic she is very interested in as well is heat.  This summer, she was part of a physics...

Where are you from?  Where were you before you joined CliMAS in Illinois? I am from Naperville, IL. Before joining CliMAS at Illinois minoring in atmospheric sciences, I started at the University of Illinois majoring in Aerospace Engineering which I will graduate from in May of 2024. I am excited to continue my education in CliMAS, pursuing a Master’s in...

Jessica Skocinski is one of our new Fall 2023 graduate students, however, she is not a new University of Illinois student. Jessica was an undergraduate here for 4 years and is now on her way to being what she has dreamt about: an operational forecaster and, per Jessica, “especially in aviation”. Jessica has a penchant for the friendly skies as she is also learning to become a pilot, taking...

We can’t think of a better person to be in Atmospheric Sciences than someone from the “Summer Capital of the Philippines”.  Baguio City native, Michie De Vera, was born and raised in a place that sits on a plateau and is about 1.5 kilometers above sea level which brings in a cooler climate.  Those stats get her hometown that stellar nickname.  After finishing her undergraduate...

Brand new to the Orange and Blue is Maile Sasaki, starting her first year as a grad student in Atmospheric Sciences.  As she begins this latest journey, we wanted to get to know her as she gets to know the University of Illinois. Maile hails-no pun intended-from the Bay Area in Northern California via Albuquerque, New Mexico and studied physics as a UG at UC Santa...