News/Updates & Media Coverage

2024

Aug 2024: PI Pal and Graduate student Hassanpreet Dhaliwal contributed to the AMS Session Topic Proposal by proposing S3-MAAP relevant topic for 2025 AMS in New Orleans. Session topic: Advancements in Ground-based, Airborne and Satellite Remote Sensing of Aerosols: Retrieval, Validation, and Applications”.

July 2024: Graduate Student Diya Das received a Travel Grant Award to attend the 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2024) in Athens, Greece from 7 – 12 July 2024.

June 2024:  TTU College of Arts and Sciences Newsletter (May 2024) featuring our group members’ contributions in research within the S3-MAAP project, Graduate Students Shine. 

Feb 2024: PI Pal’s research project funded by NASA (i.e., S3-MAAP project) was cited in TTU Strategic Research Themes. Link

Jan 2024: TTU College of Arts and Sciences Newsletter featured our group’s contributions in research and service, in particular, S3-MAAP research by a graduate student, Storm of Success. Link here

Jan 2024: 104th AMS Annual Meeting (28 Jan – 2 Feb, Baltimore, MD): Our research work were discussed within 2 contributions (talks). List of papers here.              

Jan 2024:  PI Pal’s application has been selected to receive the Faculty Travel Grant (FTG for MSI), supported by the National Science Foundation to attend the 104th AMS Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD. Two S3-MAAP research papers were presented by Pal. 

Jan 2024: Graduate Student Diya Das has received a Travel Grant Award to attend the Chapman Conference on Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle: Sensors to Science to Society to be held from 13-16 February 2024 in Honolulu, HI. Das presented S3-MAAP paper on GPM validation.

2023

Dec 2023: S3-MAAP findings (2 papers) were presented in 2023 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA. Graduate student Ms. Hassan Dhaliwal presented both papers.  List of contributions here

Dec 2023: S3-MAAP project was recognized within the Texas Tech Today news article 2023 Year in Review, Issue December 22, 2023. Header: When we engaged in world-changing research. Link here

Oct 2023: Graduate student Hassanpreet Dhaliwal presented S3-MAAP findings via  SEMI-ARID (Synergistic Estimates of Meteorological Interactions focusing on the Aerosol Radiative Impacts in Drylands), in 3-Minute Thesis Competition at Texas Tech University

Aug/Sept 2023: Texas Tech Today – Mailbag article on Aug 18 featuring our group’s research on urban heat and precipitations distributions. Link here.  

Aug 2023: Graduate student Hassanpreet Dhaliwal was nominated for Student Member of the Measurements Committee of AMS within the AMS initiatives of Scientific and Technological Activities Commission (STAC). Selected for 3-years term. 

July/Aug 2023: Tipping Bucket Dual Rain Gauge has been deployed at the Reese Technology Center of Texas Tech University. Some pictures of installation. 

July 2023: Tipping Bucket Dual Rain Gauges arrived aTexas Tech from NASA GSFC. 

July 2023: High-School students and international scholars visiting TTU-facilities. S3-MAAP researchers the instruments and data collection efforts during their visit. The program was organized by the SHE SPACE and STEM CORE. Link here. 

June 2023: An excellent moment to celebrate for the S3-MAAP team as the Cimel data (Level 1 AOD measurements) being collected at the Texas Site being archived on real time through the NASA GSFC page 

June 2023: AERONET Site at Tech started CIMEL measurements of aerosol optical depths on June 15, 2023. Graduate Student Hassanpreet Dhaliwal confirmed the collection of high-quality AOD measurements over an arid region site in West Texas. 

May 2023: A research scholar (Ms. Diya Das) will be joining the Boundary Layer Meteorology Group in Fall 2023.  Link here.

Apr/May 2023: Outreach and Education: Within the efforts of STEM CORE and another TTU DEI initiative, PI Pal was invited to present the research project to middle school and high school students in Lubbock in May 2023 (two meetings). 

Mar/Apr 2023: TTU Graduate Student Hassanpreet Dhaliwal presenting the S3-MAAP project at the 22nd Annual Graduate Student Research Poster Competition at the TTU Student Union Building. Link here

Mar 2023: A news article got out covering the key story of the project S3-MAAP. The story appeared in Texas Tech Today. Link here. 

Jan 2023: Graduate Student Hassanpreet Dhaliwal joined in January 2023 and has been already very much involved in research work