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NOAA Educational Partnership Program (EPP) Celebrates 25 Years of STEM Diversity and Workforce Development

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Washington, D.C. — NCAS-M honors the 25th anniversary of the NOAA Educational Partnership Program (EPP), a federal initiative that has expanded opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for students nationwide. Launched in 2001, EPP has maintained a long-term collaboration between NOAA and Minority Serving Institutions to develop a varied pool of emerging scientists, […]

NCAS-M Researcher Rodolfo Hernández Works to Bridge the Language Gap in Wildfire Safety for Spanish-Speaking Texans

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Read in/Leer en: English | Español From left to right: Rodolfo Hernandez (NCAS-M), Zyanya Ramirez-Diaz (TTU student researcher), Lluvia Vindana (Telemundo Houston), and Pablo Sanchez (Telemundo Houston). WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new study led by Dr. Rodolfo Hernández, an NCAS-M Assistant Research Scientist at Howard University, is shedding light on how Hispanic and Latinx communities […]

NCAS-M Researchers Publish New Studies on Wildfire Smoke Profiling and Multilingual Inclusiveness in Science

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Researchers affiliated with NCAS-M continue to make impactful contributions across their disciplines. A recent study by NCAS-M researchers titled “Vertical Profiling of Canadian Wildfire Smoke in the Baltimore-Washington Corridor – Interactions with the Planetary Boundary Layer and Impact on Surface Air Quality” showcases the use of commercial ceilometers to distinguish wildfire smoke plumes from local […]

NCAS-M Hosts Annual Center-Wide Cohort Experience (ACE)

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology II (NCAS-M II), led by Howard University, hosted its Annual Center-Wide Cohort Experience (ACE) on September 18–19, 2025, at the Howard University Frederick Undergraduate Library in Washington, D.C., and the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP) in College Park, Maryland. ACE provided […]

NCAS-M Fellows Present at NOAA EPP Symposium

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Two NCAS-M Fellows—Zakiya Johnson (Jackson State University) and Lucas DelValle (San José State University)—shared their summer research at the NOAA Educational Partnership Program (EPP) Symposium July 29-31, 2025. Their presentations highlighted innovative approaches to advancing NOAA’s mission in atmospheric and environmental sciences and demonstrated the high caliber of research emerging from NCAS-M’s fellowship program

NCAS-M Graduate Students, Postdocs, and Researchers Deepen Expertise in Data Assimilation at CADRE Workshop

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June 2025 – Washington, D.C. — Graduate students and researchers from NCAS-M recently participated in the 2025 CADRE Data Assimilation Workshop, an intensive training designed to build foundational and advanced skills in data assimilation methods used in weather and climate research. NCAS-M and Howard University graduate students, postdocs, and research scientists at the Cooperative Institute […]

Christian Díaz-Cáez Recognized as Bison Trailblazer

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Christian Díaz-Cáez, an NCAS-M summer intern, was recently recognized as a Bison Trailblazer. Howard doctoral alum Christian O. Díaz Cáez is now a radar imagery scientist with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Díaz Cáez recalls his first internship with NCAS-M as a defining moment. “I was accepted into Howard’s NCAS summer program to work with […]