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Alongside faculty mentor Robert Nazarian, PhD, students attended the 2024 American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference, presenting their extreme snowfall research.

Student members of newsUniversity’s Ocean, Atmosphere, and Climate Dynamics Lab traveled with Dr. Robert Nazarian, associate professor of physics and founding director of the Center for Climate Coastal and Marine Studies, to present their research at the 2024 American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in Washington, D.C, which took place December 9-13.

The annual AGU conference brings together more than 20,000 geophysical scientists from around the world. The faculty-mentored research presented at this year’s conference on extreme snowfall is part of 精东传媒’s recently launched Center for Climate, Coastal, and Marine Studies.

Through analysis of climate models, Dr. Nazarian and his students presented their preliminary results on how the phase of precipitation would change in a warming climate.

“Our research group has previously studied future changes in extreme precipitation over both the Northeast U.S. and Northern Mexico in a warming climate, and our simulations projected significant changes to the magnitude and frequency of the strongest storms over both of these regions. That work led to our current research,” Dr. Nazarian said.

The student researchers’ presentation delved into how the phase of precipitation (i.e., liquid, freezing, snow) would change in a warming climate, a topic requiring months of analysis and synthesis, both inside and outside the classroom.

Dr. Nazarian believes that faculty-mentored research provides students with hands-on skills and confidence, while allowing them to apply their disciplinary knowledge towards a specific problem. He noted that upon presenting at the AGU conference, the three students received feedback on their project and returned to newsenergized to continue their work and move forward toward publication.

“Students make significant contributions to research and work as full collaborators,” Dr. Nazarian said. I am so fortunate that my research at newshas been strengthened by terrific student collaborators.”

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