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...
Where are you from? Where were you before you joined CliMAS in Illinois? I grew up in a town just outside of Chicago called Wilmette, IL. Before joining CliMAS, I was in high school at New Trier. Not really that much exciting here… Tell us about what you’re wanting to focus on in your studies: In particular, I would like to focus on...
It's time to meet ATMS graduate student, Pappu Paul! Pappu is originally from Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital city. Before coming to UIUC, he had some teaching experiences, after earning his master’s. He worked a year and a half in several public and private universities in Bangladesh as a junior faculty. He did his undergraduate and master’s from the Department of Physics,...
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...
It seems appropriate that someone with a name that means “a unit of temperature measurement” would land in the Atmospheric Sciences field. Ironically, he is also the hot topic around here as he returns for a second go-round at UIUC. It is time to meet Professor Kelvin Droegemeier - once a student and now our new professor in ATMS and special advisor to the Office of the Chancellor....
A new semester is upon us and so is a new recipient of the Atmospheric Sciences Distinguished Alumnus Award: Professor Lourdes Aviles, Plymouth State University. She will be our special Seminar speaker on October 17, 2023. We wanted to know what our alum has been up to since she graduated from these hallowed halls. She was kind enough to fill us in. What is your current position?...
A new semester is upon us and so is a new recipient of the Atmospheric Sciences Alumnus Award: Professor Lourdes Aviles, Plymouth State University. We wanted to know what our alum has been up to since she graduated from these hallowed halls. She was kind enough to fill us in. What is your current position? I am currently the Associate Provost at Plymouth State University. I just...
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...