AGU Precipitation Student Award





Every year the AGU Precipitation Technical Committee selects students presenting precipitation related work at the AGU Fall Meeting (oral, poster or e-lightning presentations) for the AGU Precipitation Student Award. If you are a student and you are planning to present at the AGU Fall Meeting consider this opportunity.






Congratulations to the "AGU Precipitation Student Award 2024" winners!



Highlights:
  • The nominee must be student and lead author
  • The presentation must be related to 'Precipitation'
  • The abstracts should be submitted to AGU sessions that highlight "precipitation". 
  • The graphical abstract and presentation evaluation is based on novelty, content, scientific relevance, graphics and overall presentation.
  • The awards are evaluated by scientists working in precipitation science and is an excellent opportunity to network. 
  • This award is organized by AGU Precipitation Technical Committee; AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPA) requires different application. 
5 top awardees will receive
- Cash Prize 
- Invitation to speak in our quarterly seminar series






List of previous years award recipients:


2024 AGU Precipitation TC Student Award:

  • Jack Richter - University of Michigan

Title: "Investigating Atmospheric River Snowfall Properties Using Suborbital Platforms"

  • Ann Sinclair - Northwestern University
Title: "Uncertainty Among Hourly Precipitation Estimates for Shallow Landslide and Debris Flow Events in Southern California"

  • Yan Xie - University of Michigan
Title: "Melting Layer Detection from Radar Observations Using Machine Learning"

  • Kaidi Peng - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: "Advancing Streamflow Ensemble Prediction Through Satellite Precipitation and Model Parameter Uncertainty"
  • Greta Miller - University of Oxford
Title: "Probabilistic Machine Learning for Stochastic Parameterization of Deep Convection Triggering"

2023 AGU Precipitation TC Student Award:

  • Xinyue Liu - National University of Singapore

Title: "A Knowledge-Informed Deep Generative Framework for Risk Assessment of Spatially Compound Extremes."

  • Will Turner - University of California Santa Barbara
Title: "From Start to Finish—NMME Experimental Subseasonal Precipitation Forecasts (SubX) provide enhanced early-season certainty of end-of-season WRSI forecasts over Sub-Saharan Africa."

  • Florian Morvais - Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
Title: "Comparison of Thunderstorms’ Microphysics between the Amazon and Central Africa."

  • Kenza Tazi - University of Cambridge
Title: "Extreme precipitation over High Mountain Asia: assessing likelihoods under different climate scenarios using Bayesian Committee Machines."

  • Omid Zandi - University of Arizona
Title: "Developing a Novel Long-Term ML-based Precipitation Product from AVHRR in High Latitudes Using Various Observational Datasets and Auxiliary Variables from Reanalysis."

2022 AGU Precipitation TC Student Award:

  • Benjamin Goffin - University of Virginia
Title: "Changes in Extreme Precipitation Patterns in the Meuse River Basin as a Driver of the July 2021 Flooding"

  • Julia Shates - University of Wisconsin
Title: "Multi-year Analysis of Rain-Snow Levels at Marquette, Michigan"

  • Manish Kumar Dhasmana - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Title: "Evaluation of CMIP6 Models for Extreme Precipitation over India"

  • Mochi Liao - Duke University
Title: "Physics-Guided AI Framework to Predict and Correct Radar QPE Errors"

  • Seung Uk Kim - University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Title: "Contribution of Wet Soil Moisture Conditions during Extreme Pluvial Flood Events in the Midwestern United States."



2021 AGU Precipitation TC Student Award:

  • Keyhan Gavahi - The University of Alabama

Title: "A multi-dimensional pattern recognition approach using deep learning for precipitation data fusion"

  • Carolyn Lober - Brown University

Title: "Evaluating and Bias Correcting Daily Satellite Precipitation over the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada"

  • Victoria McDonald - University of Washington

Title: "An exploration of kinematic wind fields derived from Doppler velocity retrievals from airborne conically scanning radar observations of snowbands during IMPACTS 2020"

  • Alyssa Stansfield - Stony Brook University

Title: "Thermodynamic and Dynamic Contributions to Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Increases in Observations and Models"

  • Alka Tiwari - Pordue University

Title: "Characterizing the tropical cyclone rainfall using satellite, radar-blended and gauge-based precipitation products for hydrological studies"



2020 AGU Precipitation TC Student Award:

  • Randy Chase - University of Illinois

Title: "Global retrieved snowfall properties using a neural network and GPM-DPR"

  • Stefano Farris - University of Cagliari

Title: "Investigating trend detection capabilities on worldwide extreme rainfall occurrences"

  • Vesta Afzali Gorooh - University of California Irvine

Title: Data "Integration for Satellite Precipitation Estimation Using Deep Neural Networks"

  • Clara Hohmann - University of Graz

Title: "Sensitivity analysis of stream and river runoff to spatial rainfall variability using dense rain gauge observations"

  • Ruben Imhoff - Wageningen University

Title: "Opportunistic Rainfall Nowcasting with Commercial Microwave Link Data"