Danasia Sproles

NCAS-M Cohort II Undergraduate Fellow

ICECHIP Hail Research Campaign: Focused primarily on supporting and maintaining mesonet instrumentation to ensure accurate, real-time meteorological data collection. Assisted with the deployment and troubleshooting of mobile weather stations in pre and post-convective storm environments.

Studied the influence of smoke aerosols on hail and tornado development using MERRA-2, IMERG, and SPC datasets. Analyzed CAPE, CIN, and aerosol layer interactions during the April 2011 outbreak. Produced climatology maps and skew-Ts to assess seasonal aerosol impacts on severe weather.

Worked with NCAR through JSU as a research intern analyzing hurricane case studies and evaluating model simulations under future climate change scenarios. Gained experience with data analysis tools and environmental datasets to interpret large-scale atmospheric trends.

The task of this project was mapping hurricane storm surges in ArcGIS. ArcGIS was used to map storm surges occurring in coastal areas because of hurricane landing.