STARKVILLE, Miss. - Mississippi State University’s Kimberly M. Wood is the recipient of a five-year $529,705 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program to study factors that influence weakening of hurricanes. CAREER supports faculty who have potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and lead advances in the mission of their department. Wood, an associate professor in the Department of Geosciences since 2015, will use the award to research previous storms in identifying how weakening processes might be different in different tropical basins. She will use atmospheric data and software tools to facilitate insights into how hurricanes can weaken and produce a suite of open-source tools to visualize and interrogate hurricane-related data, supporting students in learning how to program and benefitting other hurricane researchers. Key components of her teaching/research efforts include data visualization and collaboration with the community. For more than 10 years, Wood has studied tropical cyclone evolution, seasonal tropical cyclone activity, and how scientists can apply machine learning tools to capture and predict future hurricane behavior. MSU's Geosciences department is nationally recognized for its excellence in broadcast meteorology, weather forecasting, severe weather research, hydrometeorology, artificial intelligence, weather modeling and climate sciences. (MSU 03/06/23) MSU’s Wood garners prestigious NSF CAREER award to research hurricanes | Mississippi State University (msstate.edu)
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