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Garden Grove, Calfiornia, 16-21 September 2017īest Undergraduate Student Presentation: Ty Dickinson and Erica Lopez, University of Oklahoma for PThe Oklahoma Weather Lab and Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program: How This One of a Kind Partnership is Pioneering Public-Aimed Mid-Range Forecasts Third Place Graduate Student Poster Presentation: Katherine Rojas and Alexander Korner, University of Missouri, for ENSO and PDO related Variability in South Pacific Circulation Patterns and Seasonal Range Prediction for the Altiplano Region of Bolivia in South America

Louis University, for Analog-Based Severe Probability Guidance Second Place Graduate Student Poster Presentation: Alexander Elmore, St. Banghoff, Penn State University, for Planetary Boundary Layer Depth Estimation from Dual-Polarization Radar Third Place Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation: Sam Ritter, University of Missouri, for Study of a Tornado Event in Indiana and Ohio on 19 April 2011īest Undergraduate Student Oral Presentation: Robert MacDonald, University of Oklahoma, for When Thunder Roars: A Quantitative Assessment of Argument Strength, Risk Efficacy, and Cognitive Elaboration in Severe Weather Threat Messagingīest Graduate Student Poster Presentation: John R. Second Place Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation: Paula Sumrall, University of Missouri, for A Statistical Approach for Defining Speed Thresholds for Upper Jet Streaks The President awarded the students with a congratulatory letter, a cash stipend and a complimentary NWA membership for the following year.īest Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation: Peyton Barlow, University of South Alabama, for Thermodynamic and Kinematic Properties of Isolated Convective Cells in the Rainband Region of Atlantic Hurricanes Members of the WAF Committee reviewed each presentation and recommended their choices of the best to the NWA President for approval. At each Annual Meeting, students (undergraduate and graduate) made known their wishes to be in competition for these awards when they submitted their abstracts.

In 2005, the NWA Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF) Committee initiated this addition to the NWA Awards Program. ** Awards prior to 2017 were provided by the National Weather Association. Student awards at the National Weather Association Annual Meeting are supported by donations from the National Weather Association Foundation General Fund.