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We are excited to announce that the ARRC is expanding our professional team. Multiple positions are available for each of the job postings in the links below. Please help in our expansion process.
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ARRC graduate student Rosalind Agasti was awarded the Graduate Dean's Distinguished Thesis Prize in Science and Engineering for her outstanding master's thesis titled "Frequency-agile filtering antennas for S-band and X-band applications". The thesis is available at here. The award has handed out by the Dean of the Graduate College Randy Hewes at the Graduate College's Awards Ceremony on April 18.
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A team of ARRC/ECE graduate students, Min-Duan Tzeng, Hsiu-Wei Hsu, Shin Yi Low, and Wei-Chun Hwang, were awarded 2nd place in the Radar Teams Challenge held during the 2024 IEEE Radar Conference in Denver. A limited number of teams from the United States, Europe, and industry engineers, were selected to compete in the event.
Pictured receiving the award are Min-Duan Tzeng and Hsiu-Wei Hsu. Congratulations, team!
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A delegation from the office of Senator Markwayne Mullin viewed the Horus radar during their visit to the Radar Innovations Lab on April 19, 2014.
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SoM/ARRC Ph.D. student Gus Azevedo was just notified that his paper, "UAS-based Low-altitude Freezing Precipitation Observation System: Development Updates and Initial Field Deployment Results", was selected to receive the Best Student Paper and Presenter Award at the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology held earlier this year in Baltimore.
Gus's paper discusses the development and field deployment of an Unmanned Aerial Weather Measurement System (WxUAS) designed to sample the low-altitude freezing precipitation environment, which is difficult to observe with existing weather observation systems. This difficulty presents challenges in aviation, as low-altitude freezing precipitation can cause almost invisible hazards. The system leverages UAVs equipped with sensors to measure atmospheric conditions like temperature, humidity, and particle size, as well as a millimeter wave radar for hydrometeor reflectivity and Doppler velocity. Initial testing at Marshall Field during a winter weather event demonstrated the system's ability to effectively sample atmospheric conditions without interference from precipitation, with sensor designs that mitigate issues like sensor heating from UAV components. Results showed the system's potential in capturing the spatial and temporal distribution of low altitude freezing precipitation, providing valuable data that could improve weather forecasting models and aviation safety.
The conference judges thought the work was well organized and very interesting, with one judge pointing out that the new technologies presented "are foundational for moving UAS sensing capabilities forward". Gus is advised by Dr. David Schvartzman.
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Recent ECE/ARRC graduate, Precious Jatau, was named recipient of the 2023-2024 Provost's Doctoral Dissertation Award. The award is given annually to recognize outstanding performance by a doctoral student in the areas of Science and Engineering, Social Science, Education and the Professions, and Humanities and Fine Arts. The award will be presented during the Graduate College's Awards Ceremony on April 18.
Precious' dissertation was titled "Machine Learning for Classifying Biological Radar echoes with S-band Polarimetric Radar." He was advised by Dr. Tian Yu and is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher.
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Weathernews, Inc. (WNI) was the recipient of an Oklahoma State Regents Business Partnership Excellence Award, presented at a ceremony on March 7 at the University of Central Oklahoma campus in Edmond.
WNI has been a long-time partner of the University of Oklahoma, focusing on radar, weather, and climate applications. They established an endowed chair and an endowed scholarship at OU in 2017. The scholarship is presented annually to an outstanding ARRC student studying weather radar, observations of the atmosphere, data analysis, and implementation.
Mr. Daisuke Abe, Executive Office, Service Operation and Development, accepted the award for Weathernews.
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Click here to read the full article, Facing Down the Storm.
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Rick Spinrad, NOAA Administrator and Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; Michael Morgan, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction; and Ajay Mehta, Radar Next program Director, toured the ARRC recently, alongside Ken Graham, Director of the National Weather Service, to learn more about the Horus phased array radar.