Leah Hornsey – September, 2022
Leah Hornsey is a fourth-year concentrating in geophysics within EAS. She has been a member of Dr. Chu’s Glacier Geophysics research group for a year. In Spring 2022, she received the President’s Undergraduate Research Award to study the hydrology of Store Glacier in Greenland using NASA radar data. She also had the opportunity to travel to the Mojave Desert to study the tectonics of southern California through the Geophysical Field Methods class. Throughout her time at Tech, she has been a part of Engineers Without Borders, Christian Campus Fellowship, and WREK Radio. She hopes to become an environmental consultant after getting her Master’s in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
Faria Panwala – August, 2022
Faria is a fourth-year Earth and Atmospheric Science major focusing on meteorology. Her research interests include severe weather and tornadoes, and she hopes to have a career in science communication and emergency management regarding natural disasters. This past summer, she started interning with NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory in the Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, which focuses on air quality and climate-related research. Outside of school, she enjoys volunteering with local communities to educate and bridge the gap between young women, specifically from underrepresented groups, and STEM. She also enjoys traveling, building 3D puzzles, and ceramics.
Nadiyah Williams – July, 2022
Nadiyah is a second-year EAS student with a focus in meteorology. She is currently involved with tornado-related research at the Severe Storms Research Center and will be working with the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Summer 2022 under the William M. Lapenta Student Internship Program on doppler radar and radiosonde research. She is also a teaching assistant for EAS 2600 and a resident assistant. In her spare time, she enjoys playing roller derby with Yellow Jacket Roller Derby and watching anime.
Autumn Toms – June, 2022
Autumn Toms is a third-year Earth and Atmospheric Science major with an interest in meteorology. In the past year, she worked with Dr. Lynch-Stieglitz’s lab group to determine changes in the southeast Atlantic oxygen minimum zone during the last glacial maximum. She now researches with GTRI’s Severe Storms Research Center to determine how the peak rotational velocity from radar of tornadoes in the southeast United States compares to the recorded EF rating. This summer Autumn will research at the Marine Meteorology Division of the US Naval Research Laboratory, where she will work on a project concerning tropical cyclones. Autumn will also serve as the next president of StORM Club, Georgia Tech’s AMS student chapter. She enjoys taking photos of the sky, hiking, and listening to audiobooks.
Thomas Silas – May, 2022
Thomas Silas is a fourth-year Earth and Atmospheric Science undergraduate student with a concentration in meteorology, graduating in spring 2022. His main research interests are synoptic and mesoscale meteorology, particularly severe thunderstorms. Thomas worked with Dr. Zachary Handlos on a project investigating a 2010 East Pacific jet stream superposition event and presented this research at the AMS Student Conference poster session, where he was selected as a recipient of the Undergraduate Outstanding Student Conference Poster Award. He currently serves as Vice President of StORM Club, Georgia Tech’s AMS student chapter, and previously served as Treasurer. After graduation, he plans to pursue a master’s degree in meteorology before hopefully beginning a career in operational meteorology. Outside of academics, Thomas is involved in Georgia Tech’s Christian Campus Fellowship and enjoys hiking, playing intramural sports, and traveling to new places.
Ella Stewart – April, 2022
Ella Stewart is a third year BS/MS student in EAS, focusing her coursework on environmental science. She conducts research with Dr. Winnie Chu, where they use radar observations of marine-ending glaciers to study the ice sheet-to-ice shelf transition. Recently, they joined forces with Dr. Alexander Robel to study seawater intrusion under marine-ending glaciers using numerical modeling. Ella is striving for a career where she can apply herself to a problem relevant to climate change, particularly one involving computing. Ella is the president of the vegan/vegetarian student organization, Veggie Jackets, and she writes investigative articles and op-eds related to sustainability for the student publication 3484 Magazine. Outside of Tech, she enjoys vegan baking, biking around the city, and keeping up with the never-ending media cycle for Rupaul's Drag Race.
Sara Delawalla – March, 2022
Sara Delawalla is a third year EAS major and CS minor, focusing on oceanography. She conducts research with Dr. Takamitsu Ito on Southern Ocean nutrient cycles and their relationship to biological activity. This past summer, she interned at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, imaging and analyzing atmospheric data collected by the ICESat-2 satellite. She is also the Vice President of Operations of Georgia Tech’s chapter of Sigma Sigma Rho Sorority Inc. Outside of school, she enjoys reading novels, playing video games, baking, watching bad movies with her roommates, and hanging out with her friends and sorority sisters.
Paige Wise – February, 2022
Paige Wise is a fourth year EAS major, conducting research in aqueous geochemistry with Dr. Yuanzhi Tang's lab group. In the fall of 2021, she was able to give a poster presentation on rare earth element adsorption to clay minerals at both the American Chemical Society and Geological Society of America conferences. Paige is the president of Sigma Gamma Epsilon (EAS geological honor society) and has been awarded the Martin L. Stout Scholarship by the Association for Environmental and Engineering Geologists and the Expanding Representation in Geoscience Scholarship by the Geological Society of America. Born and raised in Hawaii, Paige enjoys spending as much time outdoors as she can reading, backpacking, and rock climbing.
Charlotte Carl – January, 2022
Charlotte Carl is a third-year EAS major concentrating in meteorology on the business plan. She is involved in research with the Severe Storms Center (a group within GTRI) where she researches lightning. Charlotte is a teaching assistant for Earth Processes (EAS 2600) under Dr. Naif and also was a teaching assistant under Dr. Handlos over the summer for How to Build a Habitable Planet (EAS 1601). Upon her graduation in Fall of 2022, she hopes to pursue a masters degree in broadcast meteorology. Her career goals include bringing innovation to the field of broadcast meteorology. Charlotte is an active member of Greek life serving as her sorority’s Risk Manager. Charlotte has also served as the EAS representative in the Undergraduate House of Representatives within the Student Government Association. Outside of Georgia Tech, she is an avid runner and in her spare time loves baking and enjoying the beaches in her hometown of Tampa, Florida.
Susan Harrison – December, 2021
Susan is a first generation, Peruvian-American senior Earth and Atmospheric Sciences undergraduate student graduating later this month. She transferred into Georgia Tech with her Associates in Geology from Georgia Highlands College in 2019. Throughout her studies at GT, Susan has concentrated her studies in planetary sciences. During her time at Georgia Tech, she has been an involved part of the student body. Susan has worked as a teaching assistant for EAS 1601 (How to Build a Habitable Planet), for two semesters, and was on the treasury board of the Latin American Student Organization, for the 2020-2021 school year. This past summer, she performed a semester of research with Dr. Shi Joyce Sim on computing efficiency, for mid-ocean ridge spreading zone melt production models, and will be presenting this research at the AGU fall meeting in New Orleans, in December. In her free time Susan enjoys staying active, spending time with friends, drawing and clay sculpting.
