Weather Program Office (WPO) Innovation for Next Generation Scientists Fellows

Welcome WPO Innovation for Next Generation Scientists (WINGS) Fellowship 2025–2027 Class

UCAR | CPAESS and NOAA’s Weather Program Office are pleased to welcome the second class of the Weather Program Office (WPO) Innovation for Next Generation Scientists (WINGS) Dissertation Fellowship of 2025–2027. The purpose of this fellowship is to help PhD students gain real-world, doctoral experience applying expertise in their field of study to weather model…

W.I.N.G.S. Fellow: Kaitlin Pereira

Kaitlin Huelse   Internship Season Summer 2025-2026 Internship Alignment EPIC Institution and PhD Advisor Colorado School of Mines | Eric Anderson Proposal Title Improvement of Lake Representation in Operational Weather Forecasting What inspired you to become a scientist (maybe something from your childhood or youth)? Even though I grew up in landlocked Idaho, I have…

Luke Howard WPO WINGS Fellow

W.I.N.G.S. Fellow: Luke Howard

Lucas “Luke” Howard   Internship Season Summer 2025-2026 Internship Alignment JTTI Institution and PhD Advisor University of Colorado, Boulder | Aneesh Subramanian Proposal Title Improved Utilization of Dense Observations in Data Assimilation Systems Using Machine Learning What inspired you to become a scientist (maybe something from your childhood or youth)? There is no single moment…

W.I.N.G.S. Fellow: Elena Fernandez

Elena Fernandez   Internship Season Summer 2025-2026 Internship Alignment EPIC Institution and PhD Advisors University at Albany, SUNY | Andrea Lopez Lang and Zheng Wu Proposal Title Implementing Machine Learning to Resolve Troposphere-Stratosphere Coupling and Teleconnections in S2S Forecasts What inspired you to become a scientist (maybe something from your childhood or youth)? My mother…

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WINGS Ph.D. dissertation fellowship opens for applications

Applications are open for the second cohort of the WINGS Ph.D. Dissertation fellowship, hosted by NOAA’s Weather Program Office and UCAR’s Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS), and is designed for PhD candidates to focus their dissertation research on an area of scientific importance for the broader Weather, Water and Climate…

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WINGS Fellow Joseph Knisely’s Research Hopes to Advance Tropical Cyclone Predictions

Generating accurate numerical predictions for tropical cyclones is one of the most challenging problems in weather forecasting. These storms are among the most powerful and destructive extreme weather events on Earth, causing over $1.3 trillion in damages and over 6800 deaths in the US since 1980. The devastating impact of these storms underscores the importance…