CESSRST at both AGU 2024 and AMS 2025

CESSRST-II had 28 oral and poster presentations from  fellows, faculty, distinguished research scientists (DRS), and researchers at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference in Washington, DC.

The Center also had 16 presentations at AMS in New Orleans, Louisiana in January 2025. 

American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2024 Highlights 

Name	Title
Alexandra Grant	H33O-1150Tracking wastewater-dominated cross-border flow in the Tijuana River and fostering improved monitoring capacities and cooperation on both sides of the US-Mexico border
Andrew Hoell	GC32D-01Preconditions for Area Burned in the Contiguous United States by Drought-Related Wildland Fires
Audrey Gaudel	A23H-2078Multi-scale quantification of air quality in New York City
Ayo Deas	H11N-0861Working Toward a More Drought-Resilient Urban Forest Ecosystem Through Accurate and Useable Drought Monitoring, Forecasting, and Communication
Carlos Ordaz	A13E-2089Exploring Convective Precipitation with Increasing Surface Temperatures in Idealized Models
Dar A Roberts	GH53B-06MODIS-based Land Surface Temperature Climatology in Imperial Valley California; 21 years of Increasing Heat and its Potential Impact on Farm Workers.
Fred Moshary	A11A-03Observation of Summer Ozone Episodes and Transport in New York City Area
Fred Moshary	A11S-1945Observation of Mixing-Layer-Height Height Variation in New York City Urban and Costal Areas
Gerardo Trossi Torres	H53A-1078Evaluating the Performance of Soil Moisture Monitoring and Soil Saturation Forecasting in Puerto Rico Using Multiple Datasets
Gerardo Trossi Torres	H41S-0775Impacts of Precipitation Variability on Lakes and Rivers in Puerto Rico from 1990 to 2022
Haley Ciborowski	GH41B-2697Characterization of Farmworker Heat Strain and Risk using the Physiological Strain Index (PSI) and Wet-bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) in California’s Imperial and Coachella Valleys
Jahnelle Howe	GC13D-0218Using Lidar to Estimate Canopy Height Loss of Mangroves Due to Hurricane Maria and Satellite Imagery to Assess Recovery of Mangroves in Puerto Rico
James Herlan	EP31B-04Impact of wave exposure on the abundance and dispersion of marine benthic organisms at Rapa Nui
Jean Carlos Pena	A33A-1952Observations of Coastal Urban Influences on Convective Precipitation over Houston, Texas
Jennifer Perez Perez	EP11D-1309Estimation of Sargassum coastal accumulation and residence time using high resolution satellite imagery and field cameras
Keneshia Hibbert	GC13D-0215Future Projections of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) in the Main Developing Region (MDR) and Wider Caribbean Region: Utilizing CMIP6 GCM Ensembles
Kevin Herrera	A13M-03Canadian Wildfire Smoke Optical Properties Using an Integrated Aerosol Monitoring System
Kiotlyn Wen	Quantifying Spread in Radiative Feedbacks Due to Differences in Kernels
Mina Kang	A21I-1873Air Quality Validation through Inter-comparisons of TEMPO and Ground-based Observations
Mriyun Lin	A11G-06Reactive nitrogen partitioning and pyrogenic VOCs enhance the contribution of Canadian wildfire plumes to US ozone air quality
Ruben Delgado	A11O-1849Unified Ceilometer Network: Tropospheric Aerosol Monitoring for Weather and Air Quality Applications
Ryan Goldberg	NH33C-2212Cross-Ecoregion Landslide Susceptibility Prediction Using Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning
Stephanie Hurtado	GH51C-2660Spatiotemporal variability of heat stress in the Imperial Valley using fine-resolution remote sensing and weather station data.
Stephanie Marquez	H51T-0988Advancing Suborbital Remote Sensing Using Machine Learning Integration for High-Accuracy Soil Moisture Retrieval
Tyler Janoski	A51L-1847Predicting the Unpredictable: Insights into NYC’s Record-Breaking Rainfall from Hurricane Ida from the Warn-on-Forecast System
Wesley Moses	B34E-05Remote Sensing of the Coastal Beaufort Sea
William Solecki	IN23C-07Reporting on Results from the Urban Climate Change Research NetworkThird Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities
William Solecki	NH23F-2325Learning, Co-Produced Knowledge Transfer, and Proactive Planning: Piloting the Post Extreme Event Learning Toolkit (PELT) in Mid-Hudson Valley, New York

American Meteorological Society (AMS) 2025 Highlights 

Name	Title
Kolawole Owoeye	505 Observation of smoke plume and PBL interaction with ground-based lidar in summer 2023 in New York City
Ryan Lfler	PYTHON Developing Artificial and Convolutional Neural Networks with Python’s Keras API for TensorFlow
Ryan Lfler	EIPT A Python Roadmap for Accessing and Interfacing with Big Climate Data in Cloud Storage Providers
Dingdong Li	AI A Neural Network Approach To Retrieve Atmospheric Temperatures From Observations Of Constellation Of Smallsats.
Kevin Herrera	LIDAR Canadian Wildfire Smoke Optical Properties Using an Integrated Aerosol Monitoring System
Thomas Ely	159 Merged LEO-GEO Tropospheric NO2 Product from TEMPO and TROPOMI Measurements
Tyler Janoski	7B.5 Understanding the Physical Drivers of NYC’s Extreme Rainfall from Hurricane Ida via Ensemble Sensitivity
Shakila Merchant	1.2 CUNY – High School Initiative in Remote Sensing of the Earth Systems Engineering and Sciences (HIRES) – A College Readiness Secondary Education Model – 10 years in Retrospect
Mitch Goldberg	OESS The Limb Adjustment of Observations from the TROPICS Microwave Sounder Constellation
Carlos Ordaz	HYDRO Withdrawn: Implications of Tropospheric Mass Flux Reduction for the Intensity and Frequency of Convective Precipitation
Maria Tzortziou	Town Hall Meeting – The Third Decadal U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan
Keneisha Hibbert	5A.2 Future Projections of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) in the MDR and Wider Caribbean Region: Utilizing CMIP6 GCM Ensembles
Jia Su	LIDAR Multi-Lidar Observation of Fresh Wildfire Smoke over Hampton in Winter
John Sullivan	ATCHEM Improving our Understanding of Tropospheric Ozone: Surveying the last decade (2014-2024) of TOLNet observations
Akarshna Iyer	793 Meteorology and Boundary Layer Structure Associated with Coastal Low-Level Jets During WFIP3
Prathap Ramamurthy	Session 12 – Environmental Health Across Urban Scales