B.S. University of Colorado at Boulder, Biochemistry and Environmental Engineering: During her summer undergraduate research experience in our group in 2012, Kelley analyzed Doppler lidar data from the TWICS-2011 experiment (JTech 2014). Kelley started graduate school at UC Davis in Fall 2014, worked at NREL’s National Bioenergy Center in bioplastics, and is now a research technician at Alder Fuels.

B.A. University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Astronomy, and GIS-focused Geography, and with Geology, Space, and Data Science minors, May 2023: Jay’s interests include astronomy and machine learning, which he is combining with his ATOC honors thesis to study surface aeolian landforms on Mars to reveal the prevalent surface winds on Mars. He will also be simulating winds on Mars with MarsWRF. Jay is now in the Ph.D. program at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the Climate Modeling & Dynamics group.

B.S. University of Colorado Boulder, Mechanical and Energy Engineering, 2021. Hannah investigated how system of interconnected offshore wind farms off the shore of Massachusetts could provide baseline power for New England toward the interest of determining the viability of a macrogrid (Livingston & Lundquist 2020). With an engineering background, she is interested in both the technical aspects as well as the economic and societal impacts arising from rapid renewable energy transitions. In her free time, Hannah enjoys trail running, backpacking, and training for triathlons. She is working for the federal government in Washington, D. C.

B.A. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2018. Patrick joined our group in spring 2017, just in time to join the Perdigão field campaign. After returning to Boulder, he analyzed lidar and surface station data to characterize wind turbine wakes. In summer 2018, he deployed our lidars to support the ISARRA LASPE-RATE unmanned aerial system field campaign in southern Colorado. After an internship at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory analyzing atmospheric measurements for a wake steering field campaign (Murphy et al. 2020). Patrick has started a PhD in atmospheric science at the University of Washington.

B.S. University of Colorado Boulder, Aerospace Engineering, expected 2024. Anne investigated Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the nocturnal stable boundary layer and how it might affect wind turbines. In her free time, she enjoys playing video games, and exploring new places with friends and family.

M.S. European Wind Energy Master’s Program, 2014; B.S. The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology, 2011: Daniel evaluated the performance of a SODAR instrument during the TWICS-2011 experiment in summer 2011 and carried out simulations of an offshore wind farm in summer 2012. He is now an Associate at REsurety, Inc., working on Valuation & Risk Analytics.

B.A. University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2020. Vincent quantified model skill for high resolution WRF simulations at the Southern Great Plains site in Oklahoma. After graduating, he moved to a SULI internship at NREL and now teaches at STRIVE Prep. In his free time, he enjoys hiking and playing soccer.

B.A. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, with a minor in Mathematics (2023). Daphne defended an honors thesis on the impacts of offshore wind farms on low-level jets. After graduating, she continued research on the meteorological impacts of offshore wind farms as a SULI intern at NREL. In her free time, Daphne enjoys climbing and exploring caves.

B.A. University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences with a minor in Geography, 2024. Eva studied lightning strikes around wind turbines in Oklahoma. She also worked at the CU Mountain Research Station, digging snow pits as part of the Niwot Ridge LTER. In her free time, Eva enjoys climbing, snowboarding, and photography.

B.S. University of Colorado at Boulder, Computer Science, 2015: Jiwan used python and NCL to provide insight into the atmospheric boundary layer datasets collected by our research group. (Check out his CWEX-13 data page!) He is interested in scientific visualization, parallel computing, and machine learning. In his free time, he enjoys hiking and photography, and spending time with his electric guitar.

B.A. University of Colorado Boulder, Environmental Studies, 2020, with minors in ATOC and Geography. Building on her internship at JPL studying quantifying water vapor in the planetary boundary layer using combined data from OCO-2 and AIRS using ARM SGP products, Madison completed an honors thesis broadening validation regions/datasets using IGRA and others. In her free time, she likes to snowboard and hike. In Fall 2020, she  joined Emily Fischer’s group at Colorado State University.

BA, Statistics and Data Science (2023). Max defended an honors thesis that investigated changing fire weather in Colorado. He has presented his findings at several conferences including the 104th American Meteorological Society) Annual Meeting, and his paper on his honors thesis is currently in review. Outside of school, Max enjoys racquet sports, swimming, music, baking, and skiing.

M.S. in Data Science (expected 2023), B.A. in Environmental Sciences (2021), University of Colorado Boulder. Jacob is investigating how wind turbine wakes behave under differing atmospheric conditions using nacelle-mounted scanning lidar from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. As a SULI via the U.S. Department of Energy at NREL, he is further investigating the effects of wake steering on yawed wind turbines (Silverstein et al., 2022, in prep). With a robust statistics and environmental solutions background, he is interested in both the physical characteristics of energy production as well as the political and economic aspects of renewable energy. In his free time, Jacob enjoys skiing and recording music.

Postdoctoral Researcher from the Polytechnic Engineering School at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil, interested in the topics of environmental fluid mechanics, turbulence, and wind energy. Currently works on wind farm–atmosphere interactions in stable conditions during low-level jets episodes using multiscale WRF-LES-GAD simulations within the DoE-funded American WAKe ExperimeNt (AWAKEN) project.

Ph.D. 2021 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), M.Sc., KIT, Meteorology, 2016; M.A., Tel Aviv University, Environmental Studies, 2014. Philipp built a simulator in large-eddy simulation codes for airborne lidar measurements of boundary-layer winds to provide uncertainty quantification for those measurements (AMT 2020). Philipp visited our group in Spring 2018.

Ph.D. 2020 Danish Technical University, M.S. Engineering Physics University of Oldenburg, B. Eng. Engineering Physics University of Oldenburg. Robert managed several of DTU’s scanning lidars during the Perdigão field campaign, and has used those data to characterize wind turbine wakes (WES2018) and investigate recirculation zones in the Perdigão valley (ACP2019). Robert visited our group Jan-Jul 2018 and NCAR in 2019. After graduation, Dr. Menke joined the wind energy industry and now works at DNV.

M.S. 2016 European Wind Energy Master’s Program. Mihael assessed methods for representing wind farms in WRF. After serving as Lead Performance Engineer at GE Renewables in Barcelona, he is now a project manager at Siemens Gamesa in Copenhagen. Mihael visited our group Jan-Jul 2016.

Ph.D. 2019 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Simon is interested in offshore wind farm wakes and participated in the WIPAFF experiment to measure wakes (NSR2018), and he has carried out simulations of those wakes with the WRF wind farm parameterization to assess wind speed deficit predictions (MZ2018) as well as local temperature and moisture impacts (ERL2018) and turbulence kinetic energy changes (GMD2020). Simon visited our group in Fall 2017.

Ph.D. 2018 Nanyang Technological University, B.Eng (Aero).  Nanyang Technological University in Aerospace Engineering: Ken nested Large-Eddy Simulation techniques within mesoscale weather models for the purpose of improving wind resource assessment. He is now Technical Lead – Project Development and Analytics at DNV. Ken visited CU-Boulder in May-June 2013 and again May 2014 – March 2015.

Ph.D Building Service Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, M.S. Hebei University of Enginnering in HVAC, B.S Yanshan University: Gao has studied offshore wind resource assessment near Hong Kong. She quantified wind turbine wake characteristics from the CWEX-13 field campaign. Gao visited CU-Boulder in Apr-Jul 2014.