The Weather Forecast Research Team
Exceptional people. Novel ideas. Bold vision.
Previous WFRT Member-of-the-Season Award Winners
Jill Psotka - Summer 2023
Recognized for her help in onboarding new students, her efforts to foster diversity and inclusivity, and her care in planning socials.
Tim Chui - Spring 2023
Recognized for being welcoming and helpful to all team members, as well as his kind, patient, and understanding attitude, and for being super smart and fun.
Henryk Modzelewski - Spring 2023
Recognized for his support and instrumental work in several key WFRT projects, and for checking in on students and sharing his excellent skills, such as helping students with coding.
Grace Warne - Winter 2023
Recognized for her consistent work, dedication, and excellence in curating, coordinating, and leading our team seminars with such a highly professional and uplifting manner.
Julia Jeworrek - Fall 2022
Recognized for her inspiring EOAS Gala speech on behalf of not just our team but all grad students; her excellent academic and life advice to her fellow peers; her overall contributions to our team, as an outstanding scientist, colleague, and friend.
Kat Pexa - Summer 2022
Recognized for hard work, progress, and achievements in many diverse projects; being enthusiastic and helpful; being supportive and kind to other team members.
Reagan McKinney - Spring 2022
Recognized her hard work and dedication to our fieldwork and instrumentation projects; her public outreach initiatives; being supportive and welcoming to new team members; her outstanding contributions to the team in general.
Eva Gnegy - Winter 2022
Recognized for the volume of impressive and efficient work she has completed in her first year, in particular for the verification project; being supportive and helping other team members; helping to organize social activities
Timothy Chui - Fall 2021
Recognized for his extensive time and effort onboarding new students; spending extra time helping the whole team attain their goals; his teaching achievements
Rosie Howard - Summer 2021
Recognized for her hard work, leadership and dedication to the WFRT
Rachel Steinhart - Spring 2021
Recognized for taking on the seminar leader role; being open minded and positive; being active in the department; the achievement of finishing all her courses
Henryk Modzelewski - Winter 2021
Recognized for dedicating extraordinary time and effort to helping with data recovery, benefitting many team members
Julia Jeworrek - Winter 2021
Recognized for being knowledgeable, kind, supportive, and always willing to help, as well as for handling so many tasks outside of her own research
Anthony Di Stefano - Fall 2020
Recognized for organization and excellence running our seminars; supporting our operational products very willingly and effectively; his general helpfulness, friendliness, and support of
team members
Marjolein Ribberink - Summer 2020
Recognized for great work on her summer project; working tremendously hard, and producing wonderful results especially given current circumstances
Tobias Schmidt - Summer 2020
Recognized for his productivity and accomplishments; delivering an entire improved smoke forecasting system; coordinating and integrating his development work with
US AirFire; applying much-welcome software engineering practices
Eve Wicksteed - Spring 2020
Recognized for being an active team member; helping individuals with their projects; the volume and quality of work she produces; her general kindness and thoughtfulness
Roland Schigas - Spring 2020
Recognized for doing a lot behind the scenes across many areas to keep the workplace up and running, with the transition to working remotely; generally being helpful, and going above and beyond what is expected from him
Chris Rodell - Winter 2020
Recognized for his involvement, dedication, and enthusiasm with his own research and fieldwork, TAing, weather briefings, and for generally being helpful to other people in the group
Timothy Chui - Fall 2019
Recognized for always being available, willing, and enthusiastic in helping others solve problems, both technical and scientific; helping to keep our operations running smoothly and working to improve them; being welcoming and supportive to new students
