2024-2026 EPP/MSI undergraduate scholars

A headshot of Yair Banuelos.

Yair Banuelos

  • School: Northeastern Illinois University
  • Major: Computer Science

Summer 1

  • Office: NOAA Satellites, Office of Observation
  • Project Title: AWIPS: DBGeo plug-in enhancements for Aviation Weather Center aircraft observation
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Sor Bello Melendez

  • School: City College of New York
  • Major: Earth Science and Environmental Engineering

Summer 1

  • Office: NOAA Satellites
  • Project Title: Hurricane Irma's aftermath: Evaluating power outages and socioeconomic disparities through satellite data
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Daryl Bullock

  • School: University of Maryland Eastern Shore
  • Major: Environmental Science

Summer 1

  • Office: NOAA Fisheries, Office of Habitat Conservation
  • Project Title: Bubbling beneath the waves: Exploring habitats and communities of methane seeps along the U.S. Atlantic Margin
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Normandy Carter

  • School: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
  • Major: Information Technology

Summer 1

Office: NOAA Research, Office of Research, Transition, and Application (ORTA)
Project Title: Virtual reality and GIS opportunity with ORTA and the NOAA VizLab
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Amy Deatherage

  • School: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • Major: Global Environmental Science

Summer 1

  • Office: NOAA Research, National Sea Grant Office
  • Project Title: Improving access to Sea Grant’s STEM educational material
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Mario Escobar

  • School: University of the Incarnate Word
  • Major: Meteorology

Summer 1

  • Office: National Weather Service, Analyze Forecast and Support Office
  • Project Title: Defining and mapping aridity and semi-aridity in the continental United States
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Jose Keppis

  • School: City University of New York, Hostos Community College
  • Major: Environmental Engineering

Summer 1

  • Office: NOAA Satellites
  • Project Title: Using VIIRS land surface temperature and emissivity to compare and contrast the effects of urban heat islands on socially vulnerable populations living in urban and rural settings
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Peyton Lockett

  • School: Jackson State University
  • Major: Marine Biology

Summer 1

  • Office: Office of Marine and Aviation Operations
  • Project Title: The evaluation and evolution of the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations flight hour database management
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Renediego Martinez

  • School: Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
  • Major: Atmospheric Science

Summer 1

  • Office: NOAA Research, Weather Program Office
  • Project Title: Developing a Jupyter Notebook-based tutorial of the Global Data Assimilation System proxy application for enhanced data assimilation in Earth system prediction
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Kalimah Muhammad

  • School: Howard University
  • Major: Biology

Summer 1

  • Office: NOAA Satellites, National Centers for Environmental Information
  • Project Title: Oxygen content variability in the deep north Atlantic Ocean
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Paola Santini Dosal

  • School: Valencia College
  • Major: Marine Biology

Summer 1

  • Office: National Ocean Service, Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
  • Project Title: Establishing data use cases of Coastal Ocean Reanalysis (CORA) using GIS StoryMaps.
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Hazelanne Stuart

  • School: Alaska Pacific University
  • Major: Sustainability Studies

Summer 1

  • Office: NOAA Research, National Sea Grant Office
  • Project Title: A taste of sustainability: A culinary journey of U.S. seafood
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Ainsley Vanderhyde

  • School: Barry University
  • Major: Marine Biology

Summer 1

  • Office: NOAA Research, National Sea Grant Office
  • Project Title: Analysis of meaningful engagement among Sea Grant’s BIL/IRA-funded marine debris projects
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Rohan Vaswani

  • School: University of California, Irvine
  • Major: Earth System Science

Summer 1

  • Office: NOAA Research, Office of Ocean Exploration and Research
  • Project Title: The deep scattering layer in the Mid Atlantic-Ridge and Azores Plateau: ROV and bioacoustic analysis
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Sophie Welch

  • School: Nova Southeastern University
  • Major: Marine Environmental Science

Summer 1

  • Office: NOAA Satellites, National Centers for Environmental Information
  • Project Title: Quantifying variability in the north Pacific oxygen minimum zone