Project Resilience Pilot Project
"As far back as I can remember, I've always been curious about storms," says Aaron Pratt. When he was a small boy, his mother compared him to Sesame Street's Count von Count because they both got so excited whenever there was thunder and lightning.
As a teenager in the 1980s, Aimee Norton was an aspiring astronaut. At that time, the conventional path to outer space usually meant enrolling in the Air Force Academy, something that didn't appeal to her. She would eventually find herself drawn to the field of astronomy instead.
Amik spends much of his time studying numerical methods for solving partial differential equations, also known as PDEs.
Andrea Sealy, Ph.D., is a scientist at the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology. She spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in NCAR's Advanced Study Program.
Working at NCAR for nearly two decades has taught Cory Morse that she has the soul of an engineer.
For Dave Gochis, a day on the job as an NCAR scientist might mean driving around the rural backroads of northern Mexico, setting up dozens of gauges the size of cookie jars that record rainfall to the nearest millimeter.
Doug has been director of NCAR's Institute for Mathematics Applied to the Geosciences (IMAGe) since 2004. A statistician by training, he leads IMAGe in its mission to bring mathematical models and tools to bear on fundamental problems in the geosciences.
If it weren't for a lackluster chemistry score on his college entrance exams, Fei Chen might have followed his father's wishes and become a doctor.
Frank Flocke, FRAPPÉ Principal Investigator, retraces his path to a career in atmospheric chemistry.