Student earns $50,000 fellowship

The National Weather Service (NWS) has awarded Enrique Rosero, a Ph.D. student at the Jackson School of Geosciences, a graduate fellowship worth $50,000 a year to support his work to improve computer models the weather service uses to forecast flooding. More Americans die each year from floods than any other severe weather related hazard and the NWS continues to look for ways to improve the accuracy and lead time on flood warnings across the U.S. Rosero says many of the concepts and technologies he will use have already been developed. “What makes this unique is the integration of different components that already exist independently into a coherent framework that enables us to have a system that works as a unit,” he says.